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Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

The Works of the Rev. Thomas Zouch ... With a Memoir of His Life: By the Rev ... - Page 23
by Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - 1820
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Poets of the English Language: Milton to Goldsmith

Wystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson - American Poetry (Collections) - 1950

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The Oxford Book of Irish Verse: XVIIth Century-XXth Century

Oxford University Press, Donagh MacDonagh, Lennox Robinson - English poetry - 1958 - 343 pages

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The Late Augustans: Longer Poems of the Later Eighteenth Century

Donald Davie - English poetry - 1958 - 130 pages

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The Poem: A Critical Anthology

Josephine Miles - American poetry - 1959 - 553 pages

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The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations

John Michael Cohen, Mark J. Cohen, Mark Julian Cohen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1960 - 663 pages

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English Poetry: From Collins to Fitzgerald

English poetry - 1961 - 958 pages

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Transactions of the British Columbia Natural Resources Conference

Natural resources - 1961

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Selected Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1963 - 847 pages

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Selected Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1963 - 847 pages

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An Historical Syntax of the English Language

Fredericus Theodorus Visser - Architecture - 1984 - 657 pages

...Ye intend to ... take your leave of Patrick or he gang (OED). | 1770 Goldsmith, Deserted Vill. 112, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. | 1785 Burns, Hey, The Dusty Miller 3, He will win a shilling Or he spend a groat. ) 1785 Idem, The...

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