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... live ; and ( oh ! too high The price for knowledge ) taught us how to die . Thou Hill , whose brow the antique structuresgrace , Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race , Why , once so lov'd , when - e'er thy bower appears , O'er ...
... live ; and ( oh ! too high The price for knowledge ) taught us how to die . Thou Hill , whose brow the antique structuresgrace , Rear'd by bold chiefs of Warwick's noble race , Why , once so lov'd , when - e'er thy bower appears , O'er ...
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... Lives entrusted to thy Care . Or if no Milder thought can calm thy mind , Behold the great Avenger of mankind , See mighty NASSAU through the Battel ride , And fee thy fubjects gafping by his fide : Fain wou'd the pious Prince refufe th ...
... Lives entrusted to thy Care . Or if no Milder thought can calm thy mind , Behold the great Avenger of mankind , See mighty NASSAU through the Battel ride , And fee thy fubjects gafping by his fide : Fain wou'd the pious Prince refufe th ...
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... live In hollow rocks , or make a tree their hive . Point all their chinky lodgings round with mud , And leaves must thinly on your work be strow'd ; But let no baleful eugh - tree flourish near , Nor rotten . marshes send out fteams of ...
... live In hollow rocks , or make a tree their hive . Point all their chinky lodgings round with mud , And leaves must thinly on your work be strow'd ; But let no baleful eugh - tree flourish near , Nor rotten . marshes send out fteams of ...
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... live f Idle at home in ease and luxury , The lazy monarch must be doom'd to die ; So let the royal infect rule alone , And reign without a rival in his throne . The kings are different ; one of better note All fpeckt with gold , and ...
... live f Idle at home in ease and luxury , The lazy monarch must be doom'd to die ; So let the royal infect rule alone , And reign without a rival in his throne . The kings are different ; one of better note All fpeckt with gold , and ...
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... live , And laws and statutes regulate their hive ; Nor ftray , like others , unconfin'd abroad , But know fet , ftations , and a fix'd abode : Each provident of cold in fummer flies Thro ' fields , and woods , to feek for new fupplies ...
... live , And laws and statutes regulate their hive ; Nor ftray , like others , unconfin'd abroad , But know fet , ftations , and a fix'd abode : Each provident of cold in fummer flies Thro ' fields , and woods , to feek for new fupplies ...
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