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... cause , From all the dry devoirs of blood and line , From ties maternal , moral , and divine , Discharg'd my grasping foul ; push'd me from shore , And launch'd me into life without an oar .. What had I loft , if , conjugally kind , By ...
... cause , From all the dry devoirs of blood and line , From ties maternal , moral , and divine , Discharg'd my grasping foul ; push'd me from shore , And launch'd me into life without an oar .. What had I loft , if , conjugally kind , By ...
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... cause to figh . A part , how small , of the terraqueous globe , Is tenanted by man ! the rest a waste , Rocks , defarts , frozen feas , and burning fands ! Wild haunts of monsters , poisons , ftings , and death . Such is Earth's ...
... cause to figh . A part , how small , of the terraqueous globe , Is tenanted by man ! the rest a waste , Rocks , defarts , frozen feas , and burning fands ! Wild haunts of monsters , poisons , ftings , and death . Such is Earth's ...
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... cause ! Thou shining fupplement of public laws ! When flatter'd crimes of a licentious age Reproach our filence and demand our rage ; When purchas'd follies from each distant land , Like arts , improve in Britain's skilful hand ; When ...
... cause ! Thou shining fupplement of public laws ! When flatter'd crimes of a licentious age Reproach our filence and demand our rage ; When purchas'd follies from each distant land , Like arts , improve in Britain's skilful hand ; When ...
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... cause to fear ; ' Tis wit and fenfe that is the subject here : Defects of witty men deferve a cure , And those who are fo , will ev'n this endure . First , then , of Songs , which now so much abound , Without his fong no fop is to be ...
... cause to fear ; ' Tis wit and fenfe that is the subject here : Defects of witty men deferve a cure , And those who are fo , will ev'n this endure . First , then , of Songs , which now so much abound , Without his fong no fop is to be ...
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... cause appear'd of fo much weight . " That Venus , from her judgment - feat , Defir'd them not to talk fo loud , ' Elfe the muft interpofe a cloud : For , if the heav'nly folk fhould know These pleadings in the court below , That mortals ...
... cause appear'd of fo much weight . " That Venus , from her judgment - feat , Defir'd them not to talk fo loud , ' Elfe the muft interpofe a cloud : For , if the heav'nly folk fhould know These pleadings in the court below , That mortals ...
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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...