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... Ev'n now , where Alpine folitudes afcend , I fit me down a penfive hour to spend ; And , plac'd on high above the storm's career , Look downward where a hundred realms appear ; Lakes , forests , cities , plains extended wide , The pomp ...
... Ev'n now , where Alpine folitudes afcend , I fit me down a penfive hour to spend ; And , plac'd on high above the storm's career , Look downward where a hundred realms appear ; Lakes , forests , cities , plains extended wide , The pomp ...
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... ev'n here , Content can spread a charm , Redrefs the clime , and all its rage difarm . Though poor the peasant's hut , his feasts though small , He fees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear it's head , To fhade ...
... ev'n here , Content can spread a charm , Redrefs the clime , and all its rage difarm . Though poor the peasant's hut , his feasts though small , He fees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear it's head , To fhade ...
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... ev'n those hills that round his mansion rife , Enhance the blifs his fcanty fund fupplies . Dear is that fhed to which his foul conforms , And dear that hill which lifts him to the ftorms : And , as a babe , when fcaring founds moleft ...
... ev'n those hills that round his mansion rife , Enhance the blifs his fcanty fund fupplies . Dear is that fhed to which his foul conforms , And dear that hill which lifts him to the ftorms : And , as a babe , when fcaring founds moleft ...
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... ev'n imaginary worth obtains , Here paffes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts , in fplendid traffic , round the land : From courts to camps , to cottages , it ftrays , And all are taught an avarice of praife ; They please ...
... ev'n imaginary worth obtains , Here paffes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts , in fplendid traffic , round the land : From courts to camps , to cottages , it ftrays , And all are taught an avarice of praife ; They please ...
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... Ev'n liberty itself is barter'd here : At gold's fuperior charms ' all freedom flies , The needy fell it , and the rich man buys ; A land of tyrants , and a den of flaves , Here wretches feek difhonourable graves ; And calmly bent , to ...
... Ev'n liberty itself is barter'd here : At gold's fuperior charms ' all freedom flies , The needy fell it , and the rich man buys ; A land of tyrants , and a den of flaves , Here wretches feek difhonourable graves ; And calmly bent , to ...
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Page 170 - Frenchmen : we had no arms ; but one Englishman is able to beat five French at any time : so we went down to the door, where both the sentries were posted, and rushing upon them, seized their arms in a moment, and knocked them down. From thence, nine of us ran together to the quay...
Page xi - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.