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... just , Pour'd out the pious rapture of his foul . " And art thou , then , Acafto's dear remains She , whom my reftlefs gratitude has fought So long in vain ? O heavens ! the very same , The foftened image of my noble friend Alive , his ...
... just , Pour'd out the pious rapture of his foul . " And art thou , then , Acafto's dear remains She , whom my reftlefs gratitude has fought So long in vain ? O heavens ! the very same , The foftened image of my noble friend Alive , his ...
Page 72
... just began to cry what art ! Then foftly turn'd afide , to view 12 Whether the lights were burning blue . Ban The gentle pilgrims , foon aware on't , Told them their calling , and their errand ; Good folks , you need not be afraid ; We ...
... just began to cry what art ! Then foftly turn'd afide , to view 12 Whether the lights were burning blue . Ban The gentle pilgrims , foon aware on't , Told them their calling , and their errand ; Good folks , you need not be afraid ; We ...
Page 75
... just As threadbare , and as full of duft . His talk was now of tythes and dues : He fmoak'd his pipe , and read the news Knew how to preach old fermons next , Vamp'd in the preface , and the text : At chrift'nings well could act his ...
... just As threadbare , and as full of duft . His talk was now of tythes and dues : He fmoak'd his pipe , and read the news Knew how to preach old fermons next , Vamp'd in the preface , and the text : At chrift'nings well could act his ...
Page 81
... just affign'd , What new employments please th ' unbody'd mind ; A winged Virtue , through th ' etherial sky , From world to world , unweary'd , does he fly ? Or , curious , trace the long laborious maze Of Heaven's decrèes , where wond ...
... just affign'd , What new employments please th ' unbody'd mind ; A winged Virtue , through th ' etherial sky , From world to world , unweary'd , does he fly ? Or , curious , trace the long laborious maze Of Heaven's decrèes , where wond ...
Page 100
... just , Where momentary ages are no more ! WhereTime , and Pain , and Chance , and Death expire ! And is it in the flight of threescore years To push Eternity from human thought , And fmother fouls immortal in the dust ? A foul immortal ...
... just , Where momentary ages are no more ! WhereTime , and Pain , and Chance , and Death expire ! And is it in the flight of threescore years To push Eternity from human thought , And fmother fouls immortal in the dust ? A foul immortal ...
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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...