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Page vii
... mind . About the year 1743 his constitution , which was always infirm , began to give way to disease ; and although he lingered through several months , death had made very rapid progress in the month of May 1744. On the sixth of that ...
... mind . About the year 1743 his constitution , which was always infirm , began to give way to disease ; and although he lingered through several months , death had made very rapid progress in the month of May 1744. On the sixth of that ...
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... mind ! Do lovers dream , or is my Delia kind ? She comes , my Delia comes ! Now cease my lay , And cease , ye gales , to bear my sighs away ! Next Egon sung , while Windsor groves admir'd ; Rehearse , ye inuses , what yourselves inspir ...
... mind ! Do lovers dream , or is my Delia kind ? She comes , my Delia comes ! Now cease my lay , And cease , ye gales , to bear my sighs away ! Next Egon sung , while Windsor groves admir'd ; Rehearse , ye inuses , what yourselves inspir ...
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... mind , Quiet by day : Sound sleep by night ; study and ease , Together mix'd ; sweet recreation , And innocence , which most does please With meditation . Thus let me live , unseen , unknown ; Thus unlamented let me die , Steal from the ...
... mind , Quiet by day : Sound sleep by night ; study and ease , Together mix'd ; sweet recreation , And innocence , which most does please With meditation . Thus let me live , unseen , unknown ; Thus unlamented let me die , Steal from the ...
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... mind : Nature affords at least a glimmering light ; The lines , though touch'd but faintly , are drawn right . } But as the slightest sketch , if justly trac❜d , Is by ill - colouring but the more disgrac❜d , So by false learning is ...
... mind : Nature affords at least a glimmering light ; The lines , though touch'd but faintly , are drawn right . } But as the slightest sketch , if justly trac❜d , Is by ill - colouring but the more disgrac❜d , So by false learning is ...
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... mind A work t ' outlast immortal Rome design'd , Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law , And but from nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t ' examine every part he came , Nature and Homer were , he found , the same ...
... mind A work t ' outlast immortal Rome design'd , Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law , And but from nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t ' examine every part he came , Nature and Homer were , he found , the same ...
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