The Poetical Works: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorM. & W. Ward, 1811 - 72 pages |
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... hand to hand It shifts , in splendid traffic , round the land : From courts to camps , to cottages it strays , And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please , are pleas'd , they give to get esteem , Till , seeming blest , the ...
... hand to hand It shifts , in splendid traffic , round the land : From courts to camps , to cottages it strays , And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please , are pleas'd , they give to get esteem , Till , seeming blest , the ...
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... hand , Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagin'd right above control , While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan , And learns to venerate himself as man . Thine , Freedom , thine the blessings pictur'd here ...
... hand , Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagin'd right above control , While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan , And learns to venerate himself as man . Thine , Freedom , thine the blessings pictur'd here ...
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... hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , chok'd with sedges , works its weedy way ...
... hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , chok'd with sedges , works its weedy way ...
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... hand , Fill'd with a snake - encircled wand ; By classic authors terin'd Caduceus , And highly fam'd for several uses . To wit - most wondrously endu'd , No poppy - water half so good : For let folks only get a touch , Its soporific 59.
... hand , Fill'd with a snake - encircled wand ; By classic authors terin'd Caduceus , And highly fam'd for several uses . To wit - most wondrously endu'd , No poppy - water half so good : For let folks only get a touch , Its soporific 59.
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... hand . Soon afterwards his uncle , Mr. Martin , a lieutenant - colonel , left him about two thousand pounds , a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible , and which he did not live to ex- haust . The guineas were then repaid ...
... hand . Soon afterwards his uncle , Mr. Martin , a lieutenant - colonel , left him about two thousand pounds , a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible , and which he did not live to ex- haust . The guineas were then repaid ...
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