The Works of the English Poets, Volume 49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 pages |
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... happy nations catch the fong . What would not , Peace ! the patriot bear for thee ? What painful patience ? what inceffant care ? What mixt anxiety ? what fleepless toil ! Ev'n from the rash protected what reproach ? 150 For he thy ...
... happy nations catch the fong . What would not , Peace ! the patriot bear for thee ? What painful patience ? what inceffant care ? What mixt anxiety ? what fleepless toil ! Ev'n from the rash protected what reproach ? 150 For he thy ...
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... happy foils , That , but by labour's flighteft aid impell'd , With treasures teem to thy cold clime unknown ; If there defponding fail the common arts , And fuftenance of life : could life itself , Far lefs a thoughtlefs tyrant's hollow ...
... happy foils , That , but by labour's flighteft aid impell'd , With treasures teem to thy cold clime unknown ; If there defponding fail the common arts , And fuftenance of life : could life itself , Far lefs a thoughtlefs tyrant's hollow ...
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... happy land ! Had not neglected Art , with weedy vice Confounded , funk . But if Athenian arts Lov'd not the foil ; yet there the calm abode Of wisdom , virtue , philofophic ease , Of manly fenfe and wit , in frugal phrafe Confin'd , and ...
... happy land ! Had not neglected Art , with weedy vice Confounded , funk . But if Athenian arts Lov'd not the foil ; yet there the calm abode Of wisdom , virtue , philofophic ease , Of manly fenfe and wit , in frugal phrafe Confin'd , and ...
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... heart , with playful art , His fimple queftion stole : as into truth , 230 And ferious deeds , he fmil'd the laughing race ; Taught moral happy life , whate'er can blefs , Or 235 Or grace mankind ; and what he taught he 42 THOMSON'S POEM S.
... heart , with playful art , His fimple queftion stole : as into truth , 230 And ferious deeds , he fmil'd the laughing race ; Taught moral happy life , whate'er can blefs , Or 235 Or grace mankind ; and what he taught he 42 THOMSON'S POEM S.
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... happy parents fmil'd their younger felves ; And friends convers'd , by death divided long . To public Virtue thus the fmiling Arts , Unblemish'd handmaids , ferv'd ! the Graces they To drefs this faireft Venus . Thus rever'd , 365 And ...
... happy parents fmil'd their younger felves ; And friends convers'd , by death divided long . To public Virtue thus the fmiling Arts , Unblemish'd handmaids , ferv'd ! the Graces they To drefs this faireft Venus . Thus rever'd , 365 And ...
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