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... the wakeful night , Intent with endless view to pore The schoolmen and the fages o'er : Their books from wisdom widely stray , Or point , at beft , the longest way . VOL . II . B I'll I'll feek a readier path , and go Where wisdom's O.
... the wakeful night , Intent with endless view to pore The schoolmen and the fages o'er : Their books from wisdom widely stray , Or point , at beft , the longest way . VOL . II . B I'll I'll feek a readier path , and go Where wisdom's O.
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... O'er the long lake and midnight ground ) It fends a peal of hollow groans , Thus fpeaking from among the bones . " When men my fcythe and darts fupply , How great a King of Fears am I ! They view me like the last of things ; They make ...
... O'er the long lake and midnight ground ) It fends a peal of hollow groans , Thus fpeaking from among the bones . " When men my fcythe and darts fupply , How great a King of Fears am I ! They view me like the last of things ; They make ...
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... o'er the ' fcutcheons of the dead ? Nor can the parted body know , Nor wants the foul , these forms of woe : As men who long in prifon dwell , With lamps that glimmer round the cell , When - e'er their suff'ring years are run , Spring ...
... o'er the ' fcutcheons of the dead ? Nor can the parted body know , Nor wants the foul , these forms of woe : As men who long in prifon dwell , With lamps that glimmer round the cell , When - e'er their suff'ring years are run , Spring ...
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... o'er the place . But ( truft me gentles ! ) never yet Was dight a mafquing half fo neat , Or half fo rich , before ; The country lent the fweet perfumes , The fea the pearl , the sky the plumes , The town its filken ftore . Now Now ...
... o'er the place . But ( truft me gentles ! ) never yet Was dight a mafquing half fo neat , Or half fo rich , before ; The country lent the fweet perfumes , The fea the pearl , the sky the plumes , The town its filken ftore . Now Now ...
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... o'er the place , They fit , they drink , and eat ; The time with frolic mirth beguile , And poor Sir Topaz hangs the while , Till all the rout retreat . By By this the stars began to wink , They fhriek 10 THE BEAUTIES OF.
... o'er the place , They fit , they drink , and eat ; The time with frolic mirth beguile , And poor Sir Topaz hangs the while , Till all the rout retreat . By By this the stars began to wink , They fhriek 10 THE BEAUTIES OF.
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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...