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... ! They view me like the last of things ; They make , and then they dread my ftings . Fools ! if you lefs provok'd your fears , No more my spectre - form appears . B 2 Death's 4 Death's but a path that must be trod , ENGLISH POES Y. 3.
... ! They view me like the last of things ; They make , and then they dread my ftings . Fools ! if you lefs provok'd your fears , No more my spectre - form appears . B 2 Death's 4 Death's but a path that must be trod , ENGLISH POES Y. 3.
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... fools of chance By Fortune feem'd design'd ; Virtue can gain the odds of fate , And from itself fhake off the weight Upon th ' unworthy mind . " B 6 PALEMON PALE MON AND LAVIN I A. Mr. Thomson , though ENGLISH POES Y. 11.
... fools of chance By Fortune feem'd design'd ; Virtue can gain the odds of fate , And from itself fhake off the weight Upon th ' unworthy mind . " B 6 PALEMON PALE MON AND LAVIN I A. Mr. Thomson , though ENGLISH POES Y. 11.
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... with anger in his look , The late - repenting fool bespoke . Blind to the good that courts thee grown ; Whence has the fun of favour shone ? C 2 Efteem Delighted with thy tuneful art . Efteem was growing in ENGLISH POES Y 27.
... with anger in his look , The late - repenting fool bespoke . Blind to the good that courts thee grown ; Whence has the fun of favour shone ? C 2 Efteem Delighted with thy tuneful art . Efteem was growing in ENGLISH POES Y 27.
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... ; But idly thou reject'ft the charm That gave it birth , and kept it warm . Unthinking fools , alone defpife The arts , that taught them first to rise . THE THE WOLF , SHEEP , AND LAMB . UTY demands 28 THE BEAUTIES OF.
... ; But idly thou reject'ft the charm That gave it birth , and kept it warm . Unthinking fools , alone defpife The arts , that taught them first to rise . THE THE WOLF , SHEEP , AND LAMB . UTY demands 28 THE BEAUTIES OF.
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... fool implicit fway , Which witlings with . contempt furvey ; Blind folly no defect can see , Half wisdom views but one degree . The wife remoter uses reach ,. Which judgment and experience teach . Whoever wou'd be pleas'd and please ...
... fool implicit fway , Which witlings with . contempt furvey ; Blind folly no defect can see , Half wisdom views but one degree . The wife remoter uses reach ,. Which judgment and experience teach . Whoever wou'd be pleas'd and please ...
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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...