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... worth , with all its gold and glittering store , Just what the toy will sell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom used , how little understood ! To pour in Virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep Vice ...
... worth , with all its gold and glittering store , Just what the toy will sell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom used , how little understood ! To pour in Virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep Vice ...
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... worth the search , may yet Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . They take , perhaps , a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the ...
... worth the search , may yet Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . They take , perhaps , a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the ...
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... she should produce , Worse than the deeds of galley - slaves broke loose . She loses in such storms her very name , And fierce Licentiousness should bear the blame . [ sold ; Incomparable gem ! thy worth untold ; 12 TABLE TALK .
... she should produce , Worse than the deeds of galley - slaves broke loose . She loses in such storms her very name , And fierce Licentiousness should bear the blame . [ sold ; Incomparable gem ! thy worth untold ; 12 TABLE TALK .
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William Cowper. [ sold ; Incomparable gem ! thy worth untold ; Cheap , though blood - bought , and thrown away when May no foes ravish thee , and no false friend Betray thee , while professing to defend : Prize it , ye ministers ; ye ...
William Cowper. [ sold ; Incomparable gem ! thy worth untold ; Cheap , though blood - bought , and thrown away when May no foes ravish thee , and no false friend Betray thee , while professing to defend : Prize it , ye ministers ; ye ...
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... worth ; Courage , ungraced by these , affronts the skies , Is but the fire without the sacrifice . The stream that feeds the well - spring of the heart Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than Virtue quickens with a warmth divine ...
... worth ; Courage , ungraced by these , affronts the skies , Is but the fire without the sacrifice . The stream that feeds the well - spring of the heart Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than Virtue quickens with a warmth divine ...
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beams beneath bids bless'd bliss blooming groves boast BODHAM breast call'd charms Cheapside CHISWICK courser dark dear deeds delight design'd divine dream e'en earth Edmonton errours eyes fair Fancy fear feel fire flowers folly fool form'd frown GEORGE ROMNEY Gilpin give glory God's grace hand happy hast hate heart Heaven heavenly hope hour JOHN GILPIN labour land learn'd light lust lyre mankind mind muse Nature never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps Pharisee pleasure poet poet's praise pride proud prove Rome rude sacred scene scorn scorn'd Scripture seem'd shine sight sithe skies smile song SONNET sorrow soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste tears telescopic eye tempest thee theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trifler true truth Twas verse VIRG virtue waste Whate'er wild WILLIAM COWPER wintry wisdom zeal