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Page 37
... happy ease , which thou doest want and crave , And further from it daily wanderest ; What if some little pain the passage have , That make frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ? Is not short pain well borne , that brings long ease , And ...
... happy ease , which thou doest want and crave , And further from it daily wanderest ; What if some little pain the passage have , That make frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ? Is not short pain well borne , that brings long ease , And ...
Page 63
... happy ; no unbounded hope had raised Ambition . Yet why not ? some other power As great might have aspired , and me though mean Drawn to his part : but other powers as great Fell not , but stood unshaken from within , Or from without ...
... happy ; no unbounded hope had raised Ambition . Yet why not ? some other power As great might have aspired , and me though mean Drawn to his part : but other powers as great Fell not , but stood unshaken from within , Or from without ...
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... happy land . Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore , And shouting Folly hails them from the shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound , And rich men flock from all the world around . Yet count our gains . This ...
... happy land . Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore , And shouting Folly hails them from the shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound , And rich men flock from all the world around . Yet count our gains . This ...
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