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Page 51
... use can blunt Affliction's fting ; Hence perfect blifs no mortals know , And few are plung'd in utter woe ; While Nature , arm'd against Despair , Gives pow'r to mend , or strength to bear ; And half the thought content may gain , Which ...
... use can blunt Affliction's fting ; Hence perfect blifs no mortals know , And few are plung'd in utter woe ; While Nature , arm'd against Despair , Gives pow'r to mend , or strength to bear ; And half the thought content may gain , Which ...
Page 55
... uses reach ,. Which judgment and experience teach . Whoever wou'd be pleas'd and please , Muft do what others do with ease . Great precept , undefin'd by rule , And only learn'd in Cuftom's school ; To no peculiar form confin'd , It ...
... uses reach ,. Which judgment and experience teach . Whoever wou'd be pleas'd and please , Muft do what others do with ease . Great precept , undefin'd by rule , And only learn'd in Cuftom's school ; To no peculiar form confin'd , It ...
Page 65
... thofe opinions are the best , Which , in their nature , most conduce To prefent ends , or private use ... Two gods came , therefore , from above , One Mercury , the t'other Jovent The The humour was , it feems , to know , ENGLISH POES Y.
... thofe opinions are the best , Which , in their nature , most conduce To prefent ends , or private use ... Two gods came , therefore , from above , One Mercury , the t'other Jovent The The humour was , it feems , to know , ENGLISH POES Y.
Page 74
... use , Was metamorphos'd into pews ; Which ftill their ancient nature keep , By lodging folks difpos'd to fleep . The cottage , by fuch feats as these , Grown to a church by juft degrees , The hermits then defir'd their hoft To ask for ...
... use , Was metamorphos'd into pews ; Which ftill their ancient nature keep , By lodging folks difpos'd to fleep . The cottage , by fuch feats as these , Grown to a church by juft degrees , The hermits then defir'd their hoft To ask for ...
Page 93
... use ! Such is the chafe when love and fancy leads , O'er craggy mountains , and thro ' flow'ry meads ; Invok'd to testify the lover's care , Or form fome image of his cruel fair . Urg'd with his fury , like a wounded deer , O'er these ...
... use ! Such is the chafe when love and fancy leads , O'er craggy mountains , and thro ' flow'ry meads ; Invok'd to testify the lover's care , Or form fome image of his cruel fair . Urg'd with his fury , like a wounded deer , O'er these ...
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Page 98 - ... immortal ! infeft infinite ! A worm ! a god ! — I tremble at myfelf, And in myfelf am loft ! at home a ftranger, Thought wanders up and down, furpriz'd, aghaft, And wond'ring at her own: How reafon reels ? O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly diftrefs'd ! what joy, what dread...