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... breast ! " Alas ! we both with cold and hunger quake- " Why do you weep ? -Mamma will soon awake . ” She'll wake no more ! " the hopeless mourner cried , Upturn'd his eyes , and clasp'd his hands , and sigh'd ; Stretch'd on the ground ...
... breast ! " Alas ! we both with cold and hunger quake- " Why do you weep ? -Mamma will soon awake . ” She'll wake no more ! " the hopeless mourner cried , Upturn'd his eyes , and clasp'd his hands , and sigh'd ; Stretch'd on the ground ...
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... breast , And turns his tears to rapture . - Ask the crowd Which flies impatient from the village - walk To climb the neighb'ring cliffs , when far below The cruel winds have hurl'd upon the coast Some hapless bark ; while sacred Pity ...
... breast , And turns his tears to rapture . - Ask the crowd Which flies impatient from the village - walk To climb the neighb'ring cliffs , when far below The cruel winds have hurl'd upon the coast Some hapless bark ; while sacred Pity ...
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... breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others ' good , or melt at others ' wo . What can atone ( O , ever - injur'd shade ! ) Thy fate unpitied , and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint , no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost , or ...
... breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others ' good , or melt at others ' wo . What can atone ( O , ever - injur'd shade ! ) Thy fate unpitied , and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint , no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost , or ...
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Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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