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... delight profound , Where Ariconium pours her gems profuse , Purpling a whole horizon round ? Athirst ye praise the limpid stream , ' tis true : But tho ' , the pebbled fhores among , It mimick no unpleafing fong , The limpid fountain ...
... delight profound , Where Ariconium pours her gems profuse , Purpling a whole horizon round ? Athirst ye praise the limpid stream , ' tis true : But tho ' , the pebbled fhores among , It mimick no unpleafing fong , The limpid fountain ...
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... delight . IX . With what fufpicious fearful care The fordid wretch fecures his claim , If haply fome luxurious heir Should alienate the fields that wear his name ! What fcruples left some future birth Should litigate a span of earth ...
... delight . IX . With what fufpicious fearful care The fordid wretch fecures his claim , If haply fome luxurious heir Should alienate the fields that wear his name ! What fcruples left some future birth Should litigate a span of earth ...
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... delighted hear Yon throftle chaunt the rising year ? Could she not spurn the wreaths of fame , To crop the primrose of the plains ? Does she not sweets in each fair valley find , Loft to the fons of pow'r , unknown to half mankind ? A 3 ...
... delighted hear Yon throftle chaunt the rising year ? Could she not spurn the wreaths of fame , To crop the primrose of the plains ? Does she not sweets in each fair valley find , Loft to the fons of pow'r , unknown to half mankind ? A 3 ...
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... delight ; And now aloof we seem to fly On purple pinions thro ' a purer sky , Where all is wonderous , all is bright : Now landed on some spangled fhore Awhile each dazled maniac roves By faphire lakes , thro ' em'rald groves , Paternal ...
... delight ; And now aloof we seem to fly On purple pinions thro ' a purer sky , Where all is wonderous , all is bright : Now landed on some spangled fhore Awhile each dazled maniac roves By faphire lakes , thro ' em'rald groves , Paternal ...
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... delight , Fatigu'd with splendour's irksome beams , Fancy again demands the fight Of native groves , and wonted ... delights admire , Like STAMFORD fhall with fcorn behold Th ' unequal bribes of pageantry and gold ; Beneath the British ...
... delight , Fatigu'd with splendour's irksome beams , Fancy again demands the fight Of native groves , and wonted ... delights admire , Like STAMFORD fhall with fcorn behold Th ' unequal bribes of pageantry and gold ; Beneath the British ...
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