The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2Oliver Goldsmith James Williams, 1771 - English poetry |
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... Heav'n beholds with gentler eyes ; Heav'n thy friendless steps shall guide , Chear thy hours , and guard thy fide . When the fatal trump shall found , When th ' immortals pour around , VOL . II . D Heav'n Heav'n fhall thy return attest ...
... Heav'n beholds with gentler eyes ; Heav'n thy friendless steps shall guide , Chear thy hours , and guard thy fide . When the fatal trump shall found , When th ' immortals pour around , VOL . II . D Heav'n Heav'n fhall thy return attest ...
Page 99
... Heav'n husbands all events : Dull fleep inftru & ts , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why , then , their lofs deplore , that are not loft ? Why wanders wretched Thought their tombs . around , In infidel diftrefs ? Are angels there ...
... Heav'n husbands all events : Dull fleep inftru & ts , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why , then , their lofs deplore , that are not loft ? Why wanders wretched Thought their tombs . around , In infidel diftrefs ? Are angels there ...
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... Heav'n's bounty ; boundless our expence ; No niggard , Nature ; men are prodigals . We waste , not use our time ; we breathe , not live . Time wafted is exiftence ; us'd , is life . And bare existence , man , to live ordain'd , Wrings ...
... Heav'n's bounty ; boundless our expence ; No niggard , Nature ; men are prodigals . We waste , not use our time ; we breathe , not live . Time wafted is exiftence ; us'd , is life . And bare existence , man , to live ordain'd , Wrings ...
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