The Poetical Works: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorM. & W. Ward, 1811 - 72 pages |
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... perhaps , no character on the stage more happily imagined , and more highly finished than Croaker's ; nor do we recollect so original and success- ful an incident as that of the letter , which he conceives to be the composition of the ...
... perhaps , no character on the stage more happily imagined , and more highly finished than Croaker's ; nor do we recollect so original and success- ful an incident as that of the letter , which he conceives to be the composition of the ...
Page xi
... perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts , which you decline giving with your own . But as a part of this poem was for- merly written to you from Switzerland , the whole can now , with propriety , be only ...
... perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts , which you decline giving with your own . But as a part of this poem was for- merly written to you from Switzerland , the whole can now , with propriety , be only ...
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... perhaps , if countries we compare , And estimate the blessings which they share , ' Tho ' patriots flatter , still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind : As different good , by art or nature given , To different ...
... perhaps , if countries we compare , And estimate the blessings which they share , ' Tho ' patriots flatter , still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind : As different good , by art or nature given , To different ...
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... perhaps , as there some pilgrim strays Thro ' tangled forests , and thro ' dangerous ways , Where beasts with man divided empire claim , And the brown Indian marks with murd'rous aim ; There , while above the giddy tempest flies , And ...
... perhaps , as there some pilgrim strays Thro ' tangled forests , and thro ' dangerous ways , Where beasts with man divided empire claim , And the brown Indian marks with murd'rous aim ; There , while above the giddy tempest flies , And ...
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... perhaps , in village - plenty bles Has wept at tales of innocence distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn , Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all ; her friends , her virtue fled , Near her ...
... perhaps , in village - plenty bles Has wept at tales of innocence distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn , Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all ; her friends , her virtue fled , Near her ...
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