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Page vii
... modest expectations of his family , he would probably have remained a simple curate in Westmeath , eking out his " forty pounds a year " by farming a field or two , migrating contentedly at the fitting season from the " blue bed to the ...
... modest expectations of his family , he would probably have remained a simple curate in Westmeath , eking out his " forty pounds a year " by farming a field or two , migrating contentedly at the fitting season from the " blue bed to the ...
Page 16
... modest matron , and the blushing maid , Forc'd from their homes , a melancholy train , To traverse climbs beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around , And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound ? Even now ...
... modest matron , and the blushing maid , Forc'd from their homes , a melancholy train , To traverse climbs beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around , And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound ? Even now ...
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... modest mansion rose.1 A man he was to all the country dear , And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; 2 Remote from towns he ran his godly race , Nor e'er had chang'd , nor wished to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn , or ...
... modest mansion rose.1 A man he was to all the country dear , And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; 2 Remote from towns he ran his godly race , Nor e'er had chang'd , nor wished to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn , or ...
Page 32
... 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 betrayer's door she lays her head , And , pinch'd with cold , and shrinking from the ...
... 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 betrayer's door she lays her head , And , pinch'd with cold , and shrinking from the ...
Page 68
... modest stranger lowly bends , And follows to the cell . Far in a wilderness obscure The lonely mansion lay ; A refuge to the neighbouring poor And strangers led astray . No stores beneath its humble thatch Requir'd a master's care ; The ...
... modest stranger lowly bends , And follows to the cell . Far in a wilderness obscure The lonely mansion lay ; A refuge to the neighbouring poor And strangers led astray . No stores beneath its humble thatch Requir'd a master's care ; The ...
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