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... 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 nature hating , yet by vows confin'd , Untaught the matrimonial bounds to flight , 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 nature hating , yet by vows confin'd , Untaught the matrimonial bounds to flight , And ...
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... divine , With fear they mark the following cry , And from the lonely trembler fly , Or backward drive her on the coast , Where peace was wreck'd , and honour loft . From earth , thus , hoping aid in vain , To Heav'n , not daring to ...
... divine , With fear they mark the following cry , And from the lonely trembler fly , Or backward drive her on the coast , Where peace was wreck'd , and honour loft . From earth , thus , hoping aid in vain , To Heav'n , not daring to ...
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... divine ; Far , far above the scenes of woe , That shut this cloud wrapt world below ; Superior goddess , effence bright , Beauty of uncreated light , Whom should mortality furvey , As doom'd upon a certain day , The breath of Frailty ...
... divine ; Far , far above the scenes of woe , That shut this cloud wrapt world below ; Superior goddess , effence bright , Beauty of uncreated light , Whom should mortality furvey , As doom'd upon a certain day , The breath of Frailty ...
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... divine ; Found his head fill'd with many a system : But claffic authors - he ne'er mifs'd ' em . Thus having furbish'd up a Parfon , Dame Baucis , next , they play'd their farce on Inftead of home - fpun coifs , were seen , Good pinners ...
... divine ; Found his head fill'd with many a system : But claffic authors - he ne'er mifs'd ' em . Thus having furbish'd up a Parfon , Dame Baucis , next , they play'd their farce on Inftead of home - fpun coifs , were seen , Good pinners ...
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... fresh my bofom bleeds , And Craggs in death to Addison fucceeds ) The verfe , begun to one loft friend , prolong , And weep a fecond in th ' unfinish'd fong ! Thefe Thefe works divine , which on his death - bed 82 THE BEAUTIES OF.
... fresh my bofom bleeds , And Craggs in death to Addison fucceeds ) The verfe , begun to one loft friend , prolong , And weep a fecond in th ' unfinish'd fong ! Thefe Thefe works divine , which on his death - bed 82 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...