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... tell us true . Exalt thy love - dejected heart s Be mine the task , or ere we part , To make thee grief refign ; Now take the pleafure of thy chaunce ; Whilft I with Mab , my partner , daunce , Be little Mable thine . He spoke , and ...
... tell us true . Exalt thy love - dejected heart s Be mine the task , or ere we part , To make thee grief refign ; Now take the pleafure of thy chaunce ; Whilft I with Mab , my partner , daunce , Be little Mable thine . He spoke , and ...
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... tell , Are free to work thee woe . " Then Will , who bears the wifpy fire To trail the fwains among the mire , The captive upward flung : There , like a tortoife in a fhop , He dangled from the chamber - top , Where , whilom , Edwin ...
... tell , Are free to work thee woe . " Then Will , who bears the wifpy fire To trail the fwains among the mire , The captive upward flung : There , like a tortoife in a fhop , He dangled from the chamber - top , Where , whilom , Edwin ...
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... tell , That ev'n immortal angels fell . Whatever fills the teeming fphere Of humid earth , and ambient air , With varying elements enda'd , Was form'd to fall , and rife renew'd . The ftars no fix'd duration know , Wide oceans ebb ...
... tell , That ev'n immortal angels fell . Whatever fills the teeming fphere Of humid earth , and ambient air , With varying elements enda'd , Was form'd to fall , and rife renew'd . The ftars no fix'd duration know , Wide oceans ebb ...
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... Tell me , mortals , tell me where ? Gone , like traces on the deep , Like a fcepter , grafp'd in fleep , Dews , exhal'd from morning glades , Melting fnows , and gliding shades . Pafs the world , and what's behind ? Virtue's gold , by ...
... Tell me , mortals , tell me where ? Gone , like traces on the deep , Like a fcepter , grafp'd in fleep , Dews , exhal'd from morning glades , Melting fnows , and gliding shades . Pafs the world , and what's behind ? Virtue's gold , by ...
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... tell them o'er , and say how vain Are those who form Ambition's train , Which fwell the monarch's gorgeous state , And bribe to ill the guilty great ! But thou , more bleft , more wife than thefe , Shalt build up happiness on ease ...
... tell them o'er , and say how vain Are those who form Ambition's train , Which fwell the monarch's gorgeous state , And bribe to ill the guilty great ! But thou , more bleft , more wife than thefe , Shalt build up happiness on ease ...
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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...