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Page 106
... smiles of Fate . Is Heav'n tremendous in its frowns ? Moft fure ; And in its favours formidable too : Its favours here are trials , not rewards ; A call to duty , not discharge from care ; And should alarm us full as much as woes ...
... smiles of Fate . Is Heav'n tremendous in its frowns ? Moft fure ; And in its favours formidable too : Its favours here are trials , not rewards ; A call to duty , not discharge from care ; And should alarm us full as much as woes ...
Page 117
... smiles an angel , or a fury frowns . Nor death , nor life delight us . If Time paft , And Time poffeft , both pain us , what can please ? That which the Deity to please ordain'd , Time us'd . The man who confecrates his hours By ...
... smiles an angel , or a fury frowns . Nor death , nor life delight us . If Time paft , And Time poffeft , both pain us , what can please ? That which the Deity to please ordain'd , Time us'd . The man who confecrates his hours By ...
Page 122
... smile ; Nor , like the Parthian , wound him as they fly ; That common , but opprobrious lot ! Paft hours , If not by guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If Folly bounds our prospect by the grave , All feeling of Futurity benumb'd ...
... smile ; Nor , like the Parthian , wound him as they fly ; That common , but opprobrious lot ! Paft hours , If not by guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If Folly bounds our prospect by the grave , All feeling of Futurity benumb'd ...
Page 129
... smile . Their fmiles , the great , and the coquet , throw out For others hearts , tenacious of their own ; And we no less of ours , when fuch the bait . Ye Fortune's cofferers ! Ye pow'rs of Wealth ! Can gold gain Friendship ? Impudence ...
... smile . Their fmiles , the great , and the coquet , throw out For others hearts , tenacious of their own ; And we no less of ours , when fuch the bait . Ye Fortune's cofferers ! Ye pow'rs of Wealth ! Can gold gain Friendship ? Impudence ...
Page 154
... smile . III . She is faithlefs , and I am undone ; Ye that witnefs the woes I endure , Let Reason inftruct you to fhun What it cannot inftruct you to cure . Beware Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an 154 THE BEAUTIES OF.
... smile . III . She is faithlefs , and I am undone ; Ye that witnefs the woes I endure , Let Reason inftruct you to fhun What it cannot inftruct you to cure . Beware Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an 154 THE BEAUTIES OF.
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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...