The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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... appear . Hereupon , though he must have read " Roderick Random , " he was driven to think of being a surgeon's mate in the navy . But , alas ! the record of exami- nations at the College of Surgeons bears , on the date of 21st Decem ...
... appear . Hereupon , though he must have read " Roderick Random , " he was driven to think of being a surgeon's mate in the navy . But , alas ! the record of exami- nations at the College of Surgeons bears , on the date of 21st Decem ...
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... appear till three months after the author's death . A novel which he had engaged to write was rejected when offered to the publishers , being alleged to be merely a paraphrase of his first comedy small aid can have been gleaned from ...
... appear till three months after the author's death . A novel which he had engaged to write was rejected when offered to the publishers , being alleged to be merely a paraphrase of his first comedy small aid can have been gleaned from ...
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... appear ; Lakes , forests , cities , plains , extending wide , The pomp of kings , the shepherd's humbler pride . When thus Creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic ...
... appear ; Lakes , forests , cities , plains , extending wide , The pomp of kings , the shepherd's humbler pride . When thus Creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic ...
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... appear , Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives that blossom but to die ; These , here disporting , own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ...
... appear , Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives that blossom but to die ; These , here disporting , own the kindred soil , Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ...
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... appear , Even liberty itself is bartered here : At gold's superior charms all freedom flies , The needy sell it , and the rich man buys ; A land of tyrants , and a den of slaves , Here wretches seek dishonourable graves , And calmly ...
... appear , Even liberty itself is bartered here : At gold's superior charms all freedom flies , The needy sell it , and the rich man buys ; A land of tyrants , and a den of slaves , Here wretches seek dishonourable graves , And calmly ...
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Ballads beauty blessings blest bliss bound in cloth breast BULKLEY Burke CHALDEAN CHARLES BENNETT CHARLES GRIFFIN charms cheer CHORUS cloth and gold cloth gilt elegant comedy Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear Edited EDMUND BURKE EPILOGUE essays eyes fame Fcap fear flies folly handsomely bound heart Heaven honour Illustrated Johnson Kilkenny labour land Lord luxury Memoir and Notes mind mirth MISS CATLEY never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain Pasty plain pleasure poem Poetical Poets poor praise pride rage raptures Recitative Reynolds rise ROBERT BELL round Royal 8vo scene SECOND PRIEST SECOND PROPHET sigh sinks sizar skies smiling SONG sorrow soul spread spurn Stoops to Conquer supplies swain sweet SWEET Auburn thee thine thou thoughts toil Toned Paper triumph turn Twas Ven'son village wealth weep Whitefoord WILLIAM SPALDING WOMAN wretch yonder youth