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... 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 floor , When hollow winds remove the door , A trembling ...
... 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 floor , When hollow winds remove the door , A trembling ...
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... loft afore . This tale a Sybil - nurse ared ; She foftly ftroak'd my youngling head ; And , when the tale was done , " Thus fome are born , my fon , fhe cries , With bafe impediments , to rife , And fome are born with none . But virtue ...
... loft afore . This tale a Sybil - nurse ared ; She foftly ftroak'd my youngling head ; And , when the tale was done , " Thus fome are born , my fon , fhe cries , With bafe impediments , to rife , And fome are born with none . But virtue ...
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... loft , she blush'd confent . The news immediate to her mother brought , While , pierc'd with anxious thought , she pin'd away The lonely moments for Lavinia's fate ; Amaz'd , and scarce believing what she heard , Joy feiz'd her wither'd ...
... loft , she blush'd confent . The news immediate to her mother brought , While , pierc'd with anxious thought , she pin'd away The lonely moments for Lavinia's fate ; Amaz'd , and scarce believing what she heard , Joy feiz'd her wither'd ...
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... loft , if , conjugally kind , By nature hating , yet by vows confin'd , Untaught the matrimonial bounds to flight , And coldly conscious of a husband's right , You had faint - drawn me with a form alone , A lawful lump of life , by ...
... loft , if , conjugally kind , By nature hating , yet by vows confin'd , Untaught the matrimonial bounds to flight , And coldly conscious of a husband's right , You had faint - drawn me with a form alone , A lawful lump of life , by ...
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... Loft to the life you gave , your fon no more , And now adopted , who was doom❜d before ; New - born , I may a nobler mother claim , But dare not whisper her immortal name ; Supremely Supremely lovely , and ferenely great ! Majestic ...
... Loft to the life you gave , your fon no more , And now adopted , who was doom❜d before ; New - born , I may a nobler mother claim , But dare not whisper her immortal name ; Supremely Supremely lovely , and ferenely great ! Majestic ...
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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...