Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, & Entertaining, in Poetry ... Being Similar in Design to Extracts in Prose, Volums 1-2Rivingtons, 1791 - 944 pàgines |
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... most of those characters who have attained to any confiderable eminence in polite literature , have acknowledged themselves chiefly indebted for the graces and recommendations of fine writing ; for livelinefs and ftrength of imagination ...
... most of those characters who have attained to any confiderable eminence in polite literature , have acknowledged themselves chiefly indebted for the graces and recommendations of fine writing ; for livelinefs and ftrength of imagination ...
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... most abject ! How fcant the space between thefe vaft extremes ! Thus far'd it with our Sire : not long he enjoy'd His paradife ! fcarce had the happy tenant Of the fair fpot due time to prove its fweets , Or fum them up , when ftraight ...
... most abject ! How fcant the space between thefe vaft extremes ! Thus far'd it with our Sire : not long he enjoy'd His paradife ! fcarce had the happy tenant Of the fair fpot due time to prove its fweets , Or fum them up , when ftraight ...
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... most wise , In whom the fanctity of purenefs lies ; In whofe adjufting mind the whole is wrought , Whofe form is fpirit ! and whofe effence thought ! Are truths infcrib'd by Wifdom's brightest ray , In characters inat gild the face of ...
... most wise , In whom the fanctity of purenefs lies ; In whofe adjufting mind the whole is wrought , Whofe form is fpirit ! and whofe effence thought ! Are truths infcrib'd by Wifdom's brightest ray , In characters inat gild the face of ...
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... most happy when he dies ! His winter past , Fair spring at laft Receives him on her flow'ry fhore ; Where pleasure's rose Immortal blows , And fin and forrow are no more ! Come vifit ev'ry pious mind ; Come pour thy joys on human kind ...
... most happy when he dies ! His winter past , Fair spring at laft Receives him on her flow'ry fhore ; Where pleasure's rose Immortal blows , And fin and forrow are no more ! Come vifit ev'ry pious mind ; Come pour thy joys on human kind ...
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... most of life you can ; Would you , when med'cines cannot fave , Defcend with cafe into the grave- Calmly retire , like evening light , And cheerful bid the world good night ? Let Temp'rance conftantly prefide ; Our beft phyfician ...
... most of life you can ; Would you , when med'cines cannot fave , Defcend with cafe into the grave- Calmly retire , like evening light , And cheerful bid the world good night ? Let Temp'rance conftantly prefide ; Our beft phyfician ...
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