Poems: In two volumes, Volume 1Sharpe, 1810 - 438 pages |
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... streams ; The peasants urge their harvest , ply the fork With double toil , and shiver at their work ; Thus with a rigour , for his good design'd , She rears her fav'rite man of all mankind . His form robust and of elastic tone ...
... streams ; The peasants urge their harvest , ply the fork With double toil , and shiver at their work ; Thus with a rigour , for his good design'd , She rears her fav'rite man of all mankind . His form robust and of elastic tone ...
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... stream , that feeds the wellspring of the heart , Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than Virtue quickens with a warmth divine The pow'rs , that Sin has brought to a decline . A. Th ' inestimable Estimate of Brown Rose like a ...
... stream , that feeds the wellspring of the heart , Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than Virtue quickens with a warmth divine The pow'rs , that Sin has brought to a decline . A. Th ' inestimable Estimate of Brown Rose like a ...
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... stream by force ; That , like some cottage beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When Labour and when Dulness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's stand , Beating alternately , in measur ...
... stream by force ; That , like some cottage beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When Labour and when Dulness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's stand , Beating alternately , in measur ...
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... stream , And yet magnificent - A God the theme ! That theme on Earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love , 580 590 Man lavish'd all his thoughts on human things- The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings ...
... stream , And yet magnificent - A God the theme ! That theme on Earth exhausted , though above ' Tis found as everlasting as his love , 580 590 Man lavish'd all his thoughts on human things- The feats of heroes , and the wrath of kings ...
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... stream still purling in his ear , Lip - deep in what he longs for , and yet curs'd With prohibition , and perpetual thirst ? No , wrangler - destitute of shame and sense , The precept , that enjoins him abstinence , Forbids him ́none ...
... stream still purling in his ear , Lip - deep in what he longs for , and yet curs'd With prohibition , and perpetual thirst ? No , wrangler - destitute of shame and sense , The precept , that enjoins him abstinence , Forbids him ́none ...
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