Complete Poetical Works, Volume 3H. Milford, 1913 - 554 pages |
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... virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep vice restrain'd behind a double guard ; To quell the faction that affronts the throne By silent magnanimity alone ; To nurse with tender care the thriving arts , Watch every beam philosophy imparts ...
... virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep vice restrain'd behind a double guard ; To quell the faction that affronts the throne By silent magnanimity alone ; To nurse with tender care the thriving arts , Watch every beam philosophy imparts ...
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... virtue , truth , whate'er we call A blessing - freedom is the pledge of all . Oh liberty ! the pris'ner's pleasing dream , The poet's muse , his passion and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee th ...
... virtue , truth , whate'er we call A blessing - freedom is the pledge of all . Oh liberty ! the pris'ner's pleasing dream , The poet's muse , his passion and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee th ...
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... virtue still adorns our age , Though the chief actor died upon the stage . In him Demosthenes was heard again ; Liberty taught him her Athenian strain ; She cloth'd him with authority and awe , Spoke from his lips , and in his looks ...
... virtue still adorns our age , Though the chief actor died upon the stage . In him Demosthenes was heard again ; Liberty taught him her Athenian strain ; She cloth'd him with authority and awe , Spoke from his lips , and in his looks ...
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... virtue , ev'ry grace , Confess'd a God ; they kneel'd before they fought , And prais'd him in the victories he wrought . Now from the dust of ancient days bring forth Their sober zeal , integrity , and worth ; Courage , ungrac'd by ...
... virtue , ev'ry grace , Confess'd a God ; they kneel'd before they fought , And prais'd him in the victories he wrought . Now from the dust of ancient days bring forth Their sober zeal , integrity , and worth ; Courage , ungrac'd by ...
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... virtue kindled his delight , The song was moral , and so far was right , Twas thus till luxury seduc'd the mind To joys less innocent , as less refin'd ; Then genius danc'd a bacchanal ; he crown'd The brimming goblet , seiz'd the ...
... virtue kindled his delight , The song was moral , and so far was right , Twas thus till luxury seduc'd the mind To joys less innocent , as less refin'd ; Then genius danc'd a bacchanal ; he crown'd The brimming goblet , seiz'd the ...
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