The Works of the English Poets, Volume 53J. Rivington, 1779 - 344 pages |
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Page 17
... live . And fee from every gate those ancient roads , With tombs high verg'd , the folemn paths of Fame : Deserve they not regard ? O'er whose broad flints Such crowds have roll'd , fo many ftorms of war ; So many pomps ; fe many ...
... live . And fee from every gate those ancient roads , With tombs high verg'd , the folemn paths of Fame : Deserve they not regard ? O'er whose broad flints Such crowds have roll'd , fo many ftorms of war ; So many pomps ; fe many ...
Page 57
... . Let difeafe , Let wafted hunger , by destroying live ; And the permiffion ufe with trembling thanks , Meekly reluctant : ' tis the brute beyond : And And gluttons ever murder , when they kill . Ev'n Book II . 257 THE FLEECE.
... . Let difeafe , Let wafted hunger , by destroying live ; And the permiffion ufe with trembling thanks , Meekly reluctant : ' tis the brute beyond : And And gluttons ever murder , when they kill . Ev'n Book II . 257 THE FLEECE.
Page 82
... lives by toil : Beast , bird , air , fire , the heavens , and rolling worlds , All live by action : nothing lies at rest , But death and ruin : man is born to care ; Fafhion'd , improv'd , by labor . This of old , Wife states obferving ...
... lives by toil : Beast , bird , air , fire , the heavens , and rolling worlds , All live by action : nothing lies at rest , But death and ruin : man is born to care ; Fafhion'd , improv'd , by labor . This of old , Wife states obferving ...
Page 141
... courts , or name ; Widely befriended , but efcaping fame ; Peaceful , in studious quiet , would I live , Lie hid , for leifure , and grow rich , to give ! ¡ I ΤΟ TO MR . SAVAGE , SON of the late EARL ТНЕ СНОТСЕ . 241.
... courts , or name ; Widely befriended , but efcaping fame ; Peaceful , in studious quiet , would I live , Lie hid , for leifure , and grow rich , to give ! ¡ I ΤΟ TO MR . SAVAGE , SON of the late EARL ТНЕ СНОТСЕ . 241.
Page 164
... live ; Which Learning may direct , but Heaven must give : Grave with Agrippa , with Mecenas gay ; Among the Fair , but just as wife as they : First in the friendships of the Great enroll'd , The St. Johns , Boyles , and Lytteltons , of ...
... live ; Which Learning may direct , but Heaven must give : Grave with Agrippa , with Mecenas gay ; Among the Fair , but just as wife as they : First in the friendships of the Great enroll'd , The St. Johns , Boyles , and Lytteltons , of ...
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