Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas TomkinsJ. Wallis, 1785 - 204 pages |
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... E'er make this pleasing sense depart ! Ye Cares , O harden not my heart ! IV . If the fair ftar of fortune fmile , Let not its flattering power beguile , Nor , borne along the fav'ring tide , My full fails fwell with bloating pride ...
... E'er make this pleasing sense depart ! Ye Cares , O harden not my heart ! IV . If the fair ftar of fortune fmile , Let not its flattering power beguile , Nor , borne along the fav'ring tide , My full fails fwell with bloating pride ...
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... E'er fince , alas ! abandon'd , uninfpir'd , I tread this dome to mifery allied . No wakening joy informs my fullen breast , Through opening skies no radiant feraph smiles , No faint defcends to footh my foul to rest , No dream of bliss ...
... E'er fince , alas ! abandon'd , uninfpir'd , I tread this dome to mifery allied . No wakening joy informs my fullen breast , Through opening skies no radiant feraph smiles , No faint defcends to footh my foul to rest , No dream of bliss ...
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... e'er thy pitying heart was mov'd , As antient ftories tell , And for th Athenian maid who lov'd , Thou fought'ft a wond'rous fpell ; Oh ! deign once more t ' exert thy power ; Haply fome herb or tree , Sov'reign as juice of western ...
... e'er thy pitying heart was mov'd , As antient ftories tell , And for th Athenian maid who lov'd , Thou fought'ft a wond'rous fpell ; Oh ! deign once more t ' exert thy power ; Haply fome herb or tree , Sov'reign as juice of western ...
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... e'er was feen , Than e'er was thought by man ! far other ftars ! Stars animate , that govern these of fire ; Far other fun ! -A fun , O how unlike The Babe at Bethle'm ! how unlike the man That groan'd on Calvary ! -yet He it is ; That ...
... e'er was feen , Than e'er was thought by man ! far other ftars ! Stars animate , that govern these of fire ; Far other fun ! -A fun , O how unlike The Babe at Bethle'm ! how unlike the man That groan'd on Calvary ! -yet He it is ; That ...
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... And paffing rich with forty pounds a - year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race , Nor e'er had chang'd , nor wish'd to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn , or feek for power , SELECT POEMS . 119 The Country Clergyman Goldsmith.
... And paffing rich with forty pounds a - year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race , Nor e'er had chang'd , nor wish'd to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn , or feek for power , SELECT POEMS . 119 The Country Clergyman Goldsmith.
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