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... those scenes which knew 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 ...
... those scenes which knew 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 ...
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... those harvest - fields , Which from his bounteous friendship I enjoy . Then throw that fhameful pittance from thy hand , But ill apply'd to fuch a rugged tafk ; The fields , the mafter , all , my fair , are thine ; If to the various ...
... those harvest - fields , Which from his bounteous friendship I enjoy . Then throw that fhameful pittance from thy hand , But ill apply'd to fuch a rugged tafk ; The fields , the mafter , all , my fair , are thine ; If to the various ...
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... Those clouds , that fhade your blooming face , A little water might displace , As Nature , ev'ry morn , bestows The cryftal dew , to cleanfe the rofe : Thofe treffes , as the raven black , That way'd in ringlets down your back , Uncomb ...
... Those clouds , that fhade your blooming face , A little water might displace , As Nature , ev'ry morn , bestows The cryftal dew , to cleanfe the rofe : Thofe treffes , as the raven black , That way'd in ringlets down your back , Uncomb ...
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... those , Pure health , with chearful vigour , flows , And ftrength , unfeeling of decay , Throughout the long , laborious way . Hence , as they scale that heav'nly road , Each limb is lighten'd of its load ; From From earth refining ...
... those , Pure health , with chearful vigour , flows , And ftrength , unfeeling of decay , Throughout the long , laborious way . Hence , as they scale that heav'nly road , Each limb is lighten'd of its load ; From From earth refining ...
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... those shrinking friends decline , Nor longer own that form divine , With fear they mark the following cry , And from the lonely trembler fly , Or backward drive her on the coast , Where peace was wreck'd , and honour loft . From earth ...
... those shrinking friends decline , Nor longer own that form divine , With fear they mark the following cry , And from the lonely trembler fly , Or backward drive her on the coast , Where peace was wreck'd , and honour loft . From earth ...
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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...