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... pride , sternness , and mis- anthrophy of his style , its love of the darker passions , and its sullen and angry views of human life . But the error was often nobly redeemed by the outbreak of a noble mind , by touches of the finest ...
... pride , sternness , and mis- anthrophy of his style , its love of the darker passions , and its sullen and angry views of human life . But the error was often nobly redeemed by the outbreak of a noble mind , by touches of the finest ...
Page 53
... pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me , Weary and old with service , to the mercy Of a rude stream , that must for ever hide me . Vain pomp and glory of this world , I hate ye ; I feel my heart new opened : O , how ...
... pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me , Weary and old with service , to the mercy Of a rude stream , that must for ever hide me . Vain pomp and glory of this world , I hate ye ; I feel my heart new opened : O , how ...
Page 62
... pride and worse ambition threw me down , Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ; And wherefore ? He deserved no such return From me , whom he created what I was In that bright eminence , and with his good Upbraided none ...
... pride and worse ambition threw me down , Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ; And wherefore ? He deserved no such return From me , whom he created what I was In that bright eminence , and with his good Upbraided none ...
Page 97
... pride , Might hide her faults , if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall , Look on her face , and you'll forget them all . This nymph , to the destruction of mankind , Nourished two locks , which graceful ...
... pride , Might hide her faults , if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall , Look on her face , and you'll forget them all . This nymph , to the destruction of mankind , Nourished two locks , which graceful ...
Page 105
... pride of Turkey and of Persia land ? Soft quilts on quilts , carpets on carpets spread , And couches stretched around in seemly band And endless pillows rise to prop the head ; So that each spacious room was one full swelling bed ...
... pride of Turkey and of Persia land ? Soft quilts on quilts , carpets on carpets spread , And couches stretched around in seemly band And endless pillows rise to prop the head ; So that each spacious room was one full swelling bed ...
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