The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 |
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... hands by the bounty of Providence , but the workmanship must be his own . I lately took a journey into a distant county , upon a visit to a gentleman of fortune , whom I fhall call Attalus . I had never feen him fince his acceffion to a ...
... hands by the bounty of Providence , but the workmanship must be his own . I lately took a journey into a distant county , upon a visit to a gentleman of fortune , whom I fhall call Attalus . I had never feen him fince his acceffion to a ...
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... hand of art had evidently improved the workmanship of na- ture with confummate tafte ; upon the broken declivity stately groves of beech were happily difpofed ; the lawn was of the finest verdure gently floping from the house ; a rapid ...
... hand of art had evidently improved the workmanship of na- ture with confummate tafte ; upon the broken declivity stately groves of beech were happily difpofed ; the lawn was of the finest verdure gently floping from the house ; a rapid ...
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... hand , · And Nature , like a docile child , repays Her kind disposer's care ! Mafter and friend Of all that blooms or breathes within the verge Of this wide - ftretcht horizon , he furveys His upland pastures white with fleecy flocks ...
... hand , · And Nature , like a docile child , repays Her kind disposer's care ! Mafter and friend Of all that blooms or breathes within the verge Of this wide - ftretcht horizon , he furveys His upland pastures white with fleecy flocks ...
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... hand Feebly folicits the indignant foil 272 2 For a precarious meal , poor at the best . Oh , Albion ! oh , bleft ifle , on whofe white cliffs Peace builds her halcyon neft , thou , who embrac'd By the uxorious ocean fit'ft fecure ...
... hand Feebly folicits the indignant foil 272 2 For a precarious meal , poor at the best . Oh , Albion ! oh , bleft ifle , on whofe white cliffs Peace builds her halcyon neft , thou , who embrac'd By the uxorious ocean fit'ft fecure ...
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... thro ' his stubborn ribs th ' all - conqu'ring fun Drives his refulgent fpear : The ranfom'd floods , > As at a fignal , rife and clap their hands C 3 As N ° 95 , THE OBSERVER . 21 Of pristine virtue, genius, wifdom, wit? ...
... thro ' his stubborn ribs th ' all - conqu'ring fun Drives his refulgent fpear : The ranfom'd floods , > As at a fignal , rife and clap their hands C 3 As N ° 95 , THE OBSERVER . 21 Of pristine virtue, genius, wifdom, wit? ...
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