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... hope to gain the prize ,拳 Cou'd ladies look within ; But one Sir Topaz drefs'd with art , And , if a fhape cou'd win a heart , He had a shape to win . B 3 Edwin Edwin , if right I read my fong , With ENGLISH POES Y. 5.
... hope to gain the prize ,拳 Cou'd ladies look within ; But one Sir Topaz drefs'd with art , And , if a fhape cou'd win a heart , He had a shape to win . B 3 Edwin Edwin , if right I read my fong , With ENGLISH POES Y. 5.
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... hope was crofs'd , ' Twas late , ' twas far , the path was loft That reach'd the neighbour - town ; With weary steps he quits the fhades , Refolv'd , the darkling dome he treads , And drops his limbs adown . But fcant he lays him on the ...
... hope was crofs'd , ' Twas late , ' twas far , the path was loft That reach'd the neighbour - town ; With weary steps he quits the fhades , Refolv'd , the darkling dome he treads , And drops his limbs adown . But fcant he lays him on the ...
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... hope no fire's example bounds : His first - born lights no prejudice confounds . He , kindling from within , requires no flame : He glories in a baftard's glowing name . Born to himself , by no poffeffion led , In Freedom fofter'd , and ...
... hope no fire's example bounds : His first - born lights no prejudice confounds . He , kindling from within , requires no flame : He glories in a baftard's glowing name . Born to himself , by no poffeffion led , In Freedom fofter'd , and ...
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... Hope my fancy fir'd ; Inly fecure , thro ' confcious fcorn of ill , Nor taught by wifdom how to ballance will , Rafhly deceiv'd , I law no pits to fhun ; But thought to purpose , and to act , were one ; Heedlefs what pointed cares ...
... Hope my fancy fir'd ; Inly fecure , thro ' confcious fcorn of ill , Nor taught by wifdom how to ballance will , Rafhly deceiv'd , I law no pits to fhun ; But thought to purpose , and to act , were one ; Heedlefs what pointed cares ...
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... hope find reft ? —No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer : No father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd , Call'd forth my virtues , or from vice restrain'd . Is it not thine to fnatch some pow'rful arm , First to ...
... hope find reft ? —No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer : No father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd , Call'd forth my virtues , or from vice restrain'd . Is it not thine to fnatch some pow'rful arm , First to ...
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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...