The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 36Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1822 |
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... Pity for poor Africans , The Morning Dream , The Nightingale and Glow - worm , 261 263 • 264 · 267 270 272 • 274 On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage , 276 The Pineapple and the Bee , Horace , Book II . Ode X. · · A Reflection on ...
... Pity for poor Africans , The Morning Dream , The Nightingale and Glow - worm , 261 263 • 264 · 267 270 272 • 274 On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage , 276 The Pineapple and the Bee , Horace , Book II . Ode X. · · A Reflection on ...
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... leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask with busy scorn , Was this the man ! I pity kings , whom Worship waits upon Obsequious from the cradle to the throne ; Before whose infant eyes the flatt'rer bows , And binds 36 TABLE TALK .
... leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask with busy scorn , Was this the man ! I pity kings , whom Worship waits upon Obsequious from the cradle to the throne ; Before whose infant eyes the flatt'rer bows , And binds 36 TABLE TALK .
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... pity kings ! To be suspected , thwarted , and withstood , Ev'n when he labours for his country's good ; To see a band , call'd patriot for no cause , But that they catch at popular applause , Careless of all the ' anxiety he feels ...
... pity kings ! To be suspected , thwarted , and withstood , Ev'n when he labours for his country's good ; To see a band , call'd patriot for no cause , But that they catch at popular applause , Careless of all the ' anxiety he feels ...
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... Pity Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground ! The flow'rs would spring where'er she deign'd to stray , And ev'ry muse attend her in her way . Virtue indeed meets many a rhyming friend , And many a compliment ...
... Pity Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground ! The flow'rs would spring where'er she deign'd to stray , And ev'ry muse attend her in her way . Virtue indeed meets many a rhyming friend , And many a compliment ...
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... Pity Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground ! The flow'rs would spring where'er she deign'd to stray , And ev'ry muse attend her in her way . Virtue indeed meets many a rhyming friend , And many a compliment ...
... Pity Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground ! The flow'rs would spring where'er she deign'd to stray , And ev'ry muse attend her in her way . Virtue indeed meets many a rhyming friend , And many a compliment ...
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