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... pride . When thus Creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain That good , which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all ...
... pride . When thus Creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain That good , which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all ...
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... pride ; While oft some temple's mould'ring tops between With venerable grandeur mark the scene . Could Nature's bounty satisfy the breast , The sons of Italy were surely blest . Whatever fruits in different climes were found , That ...
... pride ; While oft some temple's mould'ring tops between With venerable grandeur mark the scene . Could Nature's bounty satisfy the breast , The sons of Italy were surely blest . Whatever fruits in different climes were found , That ...
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... pride ; From these the feeble heart and long - fall'n mind An easy compensation seem to find . Here may be seen , in bloodless pomp array'd , The paste - board triumph and the cavalcade ; Processions form'd for piety and love , A ...
... pride ; From these the feeble heart and long - fall'n mind An easy compensation seem to find . Here may be seen , in bloodless pomp array'd , The paste - board triumph and the cavalcade ; Processions form'd for piety and love , A ...
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... pride defrauds her daily cheer , To boast one splendid banquet once a year ; The mind still turns where shifting fashion draws , Nor weights the solid worth of self - applause . To men of other minds my fancy flies , Embosom'd in the ...
... pride defrauds her daily cheer , To boast one splendid banquet once a year ; The mind still turns where shifting fashion draws , Nor weights the solid worth of self - applause . To men of other minds my fancy flies , Embosom'd in the ...
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... pride , And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspes3 glide . [ This line occurs as prose in The Citizen of the World , 1762 , i . 147. ( Letter xxxiv . ) ] Julius Casar , Act i . Sc . 2. ] [ Fabulosus Hydaspes , Hor . Bk . i . , Ode 22 ...
... pride , And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspes3 glide . [ This line occurs as prose in The Citizen of the World , 1762 , i . 147. ( Letter xxxiv . ) ] Julius Casar , Act i . Sc . 2. ] [ Fabulosus Hydaspes , Hor . Bk . i . , Ode 22 ...
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