Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this Amusement a Substitute for Society, which the Disturbed Situation of the Country Prevented Their Enjoying |
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... heart had learn'd to prize , More bent to raise the wretched than to rise . His house was known to all the vagrant train , He chid their wand'rings , but reliev'd their pain . The long - remember'd beggar was his guest , Whose beard ...
... heart had learn'd to prize , More bent to raise the wretched than to rise . His house was known to all the vagrant train , He chid their wand'rings , but reliev'd their pain . The long - remember'd beggar was his guest , Whose beard ...
Page 8
... heart , his love , his griefs were giv'n , But all his ferious thoughts had reft in heaven . As fome tall cliff that lifts its awful form , Swells from the vale , and midway leaves the ftorm , Tho ' round its breaft the rolling clouds ...
... heart , his love , his griefs were giv'n , But all his ferious thoughts had reft in heaven . As fome tall cliff that lifts its awful form , Swells from the vale , and midway leaves the ftorm , Tho ' round its breaft the rolling clouds ...
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... heart ; Thither no more the peafant shall repair To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news , the barber's tale , No more the wood - man's ballad shall prevail ; No more the fmith his dusky brow shall clear , Relax ...
... heart ; Thither no more the peafant shall repair To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news , the barber's tale , No more the wood - man's ballad shall prevail ; No more the fmith his dusky brow shall clear , Relax ...
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... heart diftrufting asks if this be joy ? YE friends to truth , ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys encreafe , the poor's decay , ' Tis yours to judge how wide the limits ftand Between a fplendid and a happy land . Proud fwells ...
... heart diftrufting asks if this be joy ? YE friends to truth , ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys encreafe , the poor's decay , ' Tis yours to judge how wide the limits ftand Between a fplendid and a happy land . Proud fwells ...
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... , and shrinking from the show'r With heavy heart deplores the luckless hour , When idly first , ambitious of the town , She left her wheel , and robes of country brown . D Do thine , sweet Auburn , thine , the lovelieft VILLAGE . 13.
... , and shrinking from the show'r With heavy heart deplores the luckless hour , When idly first , ambitious of the town , She left her wheel , and robes of country brown . D Do thine , sweet Auburn , thine , the lovelieft VILLAGE . 13.
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