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... charms are there combin❜d , Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state , With daring aims irregularly great , Pride in their port , defiance in their eye , I see the lords of human kind pass ...
... charms are there combin❜d , Extremes are only in the master's mind ! Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state , With daring aims irregularly great , Pride in their port , defiance in their eye , I see the lords of human kind pass ...
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... charms - But all these charms are fled . Sweet smiling village , loveliest of the lawn , Thy sports are fled , and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only ...
... charms - But all these charms are fled . Sweet smiling village , loveliest of the lawn , Thy sports are fled , and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only ...
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... charms are pass'd , for charms are frail , When time advances and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress . Thus fares the land , by luxury betray'd , In nature's simplest ...
... charms are pass'd , for charms are frail , When time advances and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress . Thus fares the land , by luxury betray'd , In nature's simplest ...
Contents
THE DESERTED VILLAGE | 16 |
Part of a Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius | 53 |
On Seeing Mrs perform in the Character of | 59 |
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