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... tyrant's angry steel : Thou transitory flower , alike undone By proud contempt or favour's fostering sun ; 360 Still may ... tyrants to the throne . Yes , brother , curse with me that baleful hour , 380 390 When first ambition struck at ...
... tyrant's angry steel : Thou transitory flower , alike undone By proud contempt or favour's fostering sun ; 360 Still may ... tyrants to the throne . Yes , brother , curse with me that baleful hour , 380 390 When first ambition struck at ...
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... tyrants to the throne . Yes , my lov'd brother , cursed be that hour When first ambition toil'd for foreign power ; When Britons learnt to swell beyond their shore , And barter useful men for useless ore .... Have we not seen , at ...
... tyrants to the throne . Yes , my lov'd brother , cursed be that hour When first ambition toil'd for foreign power ; When Britons learnt to swell beyond their shore , And barter useful men for useless ore .... Have we not seen , at ...
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... tyrants and prisons for slaves . ' Seamus Deane refers to this conclusion in order to take excep- tion to it . ' Inaccurate or irrelevant ' he calls Goldsmith's examples , and adds , ' Ireland , after all , would have prospered a great ...
... tyrants and prisons for slaves . ' Seamus Deane refers to this conclusion in order to take excep- tion to it . ' Inaccurate or irrelevant ' he calls Goldsmith's examples , and adds , ' Ireland , after all , would have prospered a great ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
A Note on the Texts | 14 |
Description of an Authors Bedchamber | 21 |
Copyright | |
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