The Poetical Works: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorM. & W. Ward, 1811 - 72 pages |
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... charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all it can , These little things ...
... charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all it can , These little things ...
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... charm , Redress the clime , and all its rage disarm . Tho ' poor the peasant's hut , his feasts tho ' small ; He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head , To shame the meanness of his humble shed ...
... charm , Redress the clime , and all its rage disarm . Tho ' poor the peasant's hut , his feasts tho ' small ; He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head , To shame the meanness of his humble shed ...
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... charms to barren states assign'd ; Their wants but few , their wishes all confin'd ; Yet let them only share the praises due , If few their wants , their pleasures are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast , Becomes a ...
... charms to barren states assign'd ; Their wants but few , their wishes all confin'd ; Yet let them only share the praises due , If few their wants , their pleasures are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast , Becomes a ...
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... charm the way , These , far dispers'd on timorous pinions , fly To sport and flutter in a kinder sky . To kinder skies , where gentler manners reign , I turn ; and France displays her bright domain : Gay sprightly land of mirth and ...
... charm the way , These , far dispers'd on timorous pinions , fly To sport and flutter in a kinder sky . To kinder skies , where gentler manners reign , I turn ; and France displays her bright domain : Gay sprightly land of mirth and ...
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... charms all freedom flies , The needy sell it , and the rich man buys ; A land of tyrants , and a den of slaves , Here wretches seek dishonourable graves ; And calmly bent to servitude conform , Dull as their 20 THE TRAVELLER .
... charms all freedom flies , The needy sell it , and the rich man buys ; A land of tyrants , and a den of slaves , Here wretches seek dishonourable graves ; And calmly bent to servitude conform , Dull as their 20 THE TRAVELLER .
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