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For custom turns fatigue to ease , And , taught by virtue , pain can please . At length , the toilsome journey o'er , And near the bright , celestial shore , A gulph , black , fearful , and profound , Appears , of either world the bound ...
For custom turns fatigue to ease , And , taught by virtue , pain can please . At length , the toilsome journey o'er , And near the bright , celestial shore , A gulph , black , fearful , and profound , Appears , of either world the bound ...
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Our couple weep two wishes past , And kindly join to form the last , To ease the woman's aukward pain , And get the ladle out again . M OR A L. THIS Commoner has worth and parts , Is prais'd for arms , or lov'd for arts ; His head achs ...
Our couple weep two wishes past , And kindly join to form the last , To ease the woman's aukward pain , And get the ladle out again . M OR A L. THIS Commoner has worth and parts , Is prais'd for arms , or lov'd for arts ; His head achs ...
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1 Thy pride of being great and wife , I do but mention , to defpife , I view with anger and disdain , How little gives thee joy or pain : A print , a bronze , a flow'r , a root , A shell , a butterfly can do't .
1 Thy pride of being great and wife , I do but mention , to defpife , I view with anger and disdain , How little gives thee joy or pain : A print , a bronze , a flow'r , a root , A shell , a butterfly can do't .
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| Title | The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2 The Beauties of English Poesy, Oliver Goldsmith |
| Editor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | James Williams, 1771 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Oct 2006 |
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