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Page 37
... happy ease , which thou doest want and crave , And further from it daily wanderest ; What if some little pain the passage have , That make frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ? Is not short pain well borne , that brings long ease , And ...
... happy ease , which thou doest want and crave , And further from it daily wanderest ; What if some little pain the passage have , That make frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ? Is not short pain well borne , that brings long ease , And ...
Page 49
... happy thou art not ; For what thou hast not , still thou striv'st to get ; And what thou hast , forget'st ; thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects , After the moon : if thou art rich , thou art poor ; For ...
... happy thou art not ; For what thou hast not , still thou striv'st to get ; And what thou hast , forget'st ; thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects , After the moon : if thou art rich , thou art poor ; For ...
Page 63
... happy ; no unbounded hope had raised Ambition . Yet why not ? some other power As great might have aspired , and me though mean Drawn to his part : but other powers as great Fell not , but stood unshaken from within , Or from without ...
... happy ; no unbounded hope had raised Ambition . Yet why not ? some other power As great might have aspired , and me though mean Drawn to his part : but other powers as great Fell not , but stood unshaken from within , Or from without ...
Page 65
... happy walks and shades , Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend , Quiet though sad , the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both . O Flowers , That never will in other climate grow , My early visitation and my last At ...
... happy walks and shades , Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend , Quiet though sad , the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both . O Flowers , That never will in other climate grow , My early visitation and my last At ...
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... Happy to catch me just at dinner time . Is there a parson much be - mused in beer , A maudlin poetess , a rhyming peer , A clerk , fore - doomed his father's soul to cross , Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Is there who ...
... Happy to catch me just at dinner time . Is there a parson much be - mused in beer , A maudlin poetess , a rhyming peer , A clerk , fore - doomed his father's soul to cross , Who pens a stanza when he should engross ? Is there who ...
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