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... shall rife ; The rain scarce past , when threatening clouds return , And fickly mists afcend , and fouth winds burn ; When the bold guarders of the house shall shake , And , pain'd , their station at the door forfake ; When the fierce ...
... shall rife ; The rain scarce past , when threatening clouds return , And fickly mists afcend , and fouth winds burn ; When the bold guarders of the house shall shake , And , pain'd , their station at the door forfake ; When the fierce ...
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... shall be spread , Dead all the crowds that on their numbers fed : When faireft objects fail to move defire , Of youth extinguifh'd all the fprightly fire : Because the time of defolation's come , And man fwift paffes to his final home ...
... shall be spread , Dead all the crowds that on their numbers fed : When faireft objects fail to move defire , Of youth extinguifh'd all the fprightly fire : Because the time of defolation's come , And man fwift paffes to his final home ...
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... respected tutor , then mafter of the grammar fchool at Hoddef- don , where we accidentally met . I shall always recollect , with pleasure , my first conver- 1 converfation with Mr. Scott , at St. Mar- garet's xxxii THE LIFE OF.
... respected tutor , then mafter of the grammar fchool at Hoddef- don , where we accidentally met . I shall always recollect , with pleasure , my first conver- 1 converfation with Mr. Scott , at St. Mar- garet's xxxii THE LIFE OF.
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... shall " " have the pleasure of seeing the scenes " which had fo often entertained him , " described in verfe , that would never ' decay . " This sketch was afterwards greatly enlarged and improved before its appearance in the year 1776 ...
... shall " " have the pleasure of seeing the scenes " which had fo often entertained him , " described in verfe , that would never ' decay . " This sketch was afterwards greatly enlarged and improved before its appearance in the year 1776 ...
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... shall ever cherish with gratitude and veneration . Mr. Scott's fettled refidence was at Amwell , in the fame houfe where his fa- ther refided when he first retired from London , and which the fon afterwards greatly enlarged ; but he ...
... shall ever cherish with gratitude and veneration . Mr. Scott's fettled refidence was at Amwell , in the fame houfe where his fa- ther refided when he first retired from London , and which the fon afterwards greatly enlarged ; but he ...
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