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... live , Are fenfelefs of the fame they give . Ha ! while I gaze pale Cynthia fades , The bursting earth unveils the fhades ! All flow , and wan , and wrap'd with shrouds , They rife in vifionary crouds , And all with fober accent cry ...
... live , Are fenfelefs of the fame they give . Ha ! while I gaze pale Cynthia fades , The bursting earth unveils the fhades ! All flow , and wan , and wrap'd with shrouds , They rife in vifionary crouds , And all with fober accent cry ...
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... their better days , His aged widow and his daughter live , Whom , yet , my fruitlefs fearch could never find . Romantic wish ! would this the daughter were ! " When , When , ftrict enquiring , from herself he found She ENGLISH POES Y. 15.
... their better days , His aged widow and his daughter live , Whom , yet , my fruitlefs fearch could never find . Romantic wish ! would this the daughter were ! " When , When , ftrict enquiring , from herself he found She ENGLISH POES Y. 15.
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... lives to build , not boast a generous race : No tenth tranfmitter of a foolish face . His daring hope no fire's example bounds : His first - born lights no prejudice confounds . He , kindling from within , requires no flame : He glories ...
... lives to build , not boast a generous race : No tenth tranfmitter of a foolish face . His daring hope no fire's example bounds : His first - born lights no prejudice confounds . He , kindling from within , requires no flame : He glories ...
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... blood from all , On whom , unfought , embroiling dangers fall ! Still the pale Dead revives , and lives to me , To me ! thro ' Pity's eye condemn'd to fee . Remembrance Remembrance veils his rage , but fwells his fate ; ENGLISH POES Y. 21.
... blood from all , On whom , unfought , embroiling dangers fall ! Still the pale Dead revives , and lives to me , To me ! thro ' Pity's eye condemn'd to fee . Remembrance Remembrance veils his rage , but fwells his fate ; ENGLISH POES Y. 21.
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... live in pain ! Or wou'd Imperial Pity fave in vain ? Diftruft it not - What blame can Mercy find , Which gives , at once , a life , and rears a mind ? Mother , mifcall'd , farewell - of foul fevere , This fad reflection yet may force ...
... live in pain ! Or wou'd Imperial Pity fave in vain ? Diftruft it not - What blame can Mercy find , Which gives , at once , a life , and rears a mind ? Mother , mifcall'd , farewell - of foul fevere , This fad reflection yet may force ...
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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...