The Works of the English Poets, Volume 56J. Rivington, 1779 - 371 pages |
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... toils , " Together prefs the vine's autumnal fpoils . Delightful ftate , where Peace and Love combine , To bid our tranquil days unclouded shine ! " Here limpid fountains roll through flowery meads , Here rifing forests lift their ...
... toils , " Together prefs the vine's autumnal fpoils . Delightful ftate , where Peace and Love combine , To bid our tranquil days unclouded shine ! " Here limpid fountains roll through flowery meads , Here rifing forests lift their ...
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... toils of war and state , Splendidly private , and the tranquil joy Of contemplation felt , while Blenheim's dome Triumphal ever in his mind renew'd The memory of his fame , and footh'd his thoughts With pleasing record of his glorious ...
... toils of war and state , Splendidly private , and the tranquil joy Of contemplation felt , while Blenheim's dome Triumphal ever in his mind renew'd The memory of his fame , and footh'd his thoughts With pleasing record of his glorious ...
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... toils For Europe's freedom , and Britannia's fame ; That , fir'd with generous envy , they may dare To emulate thy deeds . - So fhall thy name , Dear to thy country , ftill infpire her fons With martial virtue ; and to high attempts ...
... toils For Europe's freedom , and Britannia's fame ; That , fir'd with generous envy , they may dare To emulate thy deeds . - So fhall thy name , Dear to thy country , ftill infpire her fons With martial virtue ; and to high attempts ...
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... toil of anxious state , Does not thy fecret soul defire retreat ? Doft thou not wish ( the task of glory done ) Thy busy life at length might be thy own ; That , to thy lov'd philofophy refign'd , No care might ruffle thy unbended mind ...
... toil of anxious state , Does not thy fecret soul defire retreat ? Doft thou not wish ( the task of glory done ) Thy busy life at length might be thy own ; That , to thy lov'd philofophy refign'd , No care might ruffle thy unbended mind ...
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... toils to feek Content we roan , Which with but thinking right were ours at home . For not the ceafelefs change of shifted place Can from the heart a fettled grief erafe , Nor can the purer balm of foreign air Heal the distemper'd mind ...
... toils to feek Content we roan , Which with but thinking right were ours at home . For not the ceafelefs change of shifted place Can from the heart a fettled grief erafe , Nor can the purer balm of foreign air Heal the distemper'd mind ...
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