The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachPhillips, Sampson, 1851 - 308 pages |
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... blest , whom Fortune's hand sustains With wealth in courts ; nor all that haunt the plains : Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ; " Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell . ' Thus Selim sung , by sacred Truth inspired ...
... blest , whom Fortune's hand sustains With wealth in courts ; nor all that haunt the plains : Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ; " Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell . ' Thus Selim sung , by sacred Truth inspired ...
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... Blest were the days when Wisdom held her reign , And shepherds sought her on the silent plain ; With Truth she wedded in the secret grove , Immortal Truth ! and daughters bless'd their love . O haste , fair maids ! ye Virtues , come ...
... Blest were the days when Wisdom held her reign , And shepherds sought her on the silent plain ; With Truth she wedded in the secret grove , Immortal Truth ! and daughters bless'd their love . O haste , fair maids ! ye Virtues , come ...
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... blest , or verdaut vales bestow : Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found , And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from Schiraz ' walls I bent my way ! Curst be ...
... blest , or verdaut vales bestow : Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found , And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from Schiraz ' walls I bent my way ! Curst be ...
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... Blest was the life that royal Abbas led : Sweet was his love , and innocent his bed . What if in wealth the noble maid excel ; The simple shepherd girl can love as well . Let those who rule on Persia's jewell'd throne Be famed THE ...
... Blest was the life that royal Abbas led : Sweet was his love , and innocent his bed . What if in wealth the noble maid excel ; The simple shepherd girl can love as well . Let those who rule on Persia's jewell'd throne Be famed THE ...
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... blest , for every maid was kind ; At that still hour , when awful midnight reigns , And none but wretches haunt the twilight plains ; What time the Moon had hung her lamp on high And past in radiance through the cloudless sky ; Sad o'er ...
... blest , for every maid was kind ; At that still hour , when awful midnight reigns , And none but wretches haunt the twilight plains ; What time the Moon had hung her lamp on high And past in radiance through the cloudless sky ; Sad o'er ...
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