A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 6For R. and J. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1763 - 336 pages |
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... means , to the maritime part of mi- litary power . Next is reprefented their favourable in- fluence upon health , when affifted by rural exercise which introduces their connection with the art of phyfic , and the happy effects of ...
... means , to the maritime part of mi- litary power . Next is reprefented their favourable in- fluence upon health , when affifted by rural exercise which introduces their connection with the art of phyfic , and the happy effects of ...
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... mean time , does oft invade Her progrefs ; nor , to us display'd , Wears the bright heroine her expected spoils . III.2 . Yet born to conquer is her power : -O Hoadly , if that favourite hour On earth arrive , with thankful awe We own ...
... mean time , does oft invade Her progrefs ; nor , to us display'd , Wears the bright heroine her expected spoils . III.2 . Yet born to conquer is her power : -O Hoadly , if that favourite hour On earth arrive , with thankful awe We own ...
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Robert Dodsley. Yet Chiefs are madmen , and Ambition weak , And mean the joys the laurel'd harvests yield , If Virtue fail . Let Fame , let Envy speak Of Capfa's walls , and Sextia's watry field . But fink for ever , in oblivion caft ...
Robert Dodsley. Yet Chiefs are madmen , and Ambition weak , And mean the joys the laurel'd harvests yield , If Virtue fail . Let Fame , let Envy speak Of Capfa's walls , and Sextia's watry field . But fink for ever , in oblivion caft ...
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... means then shall we try ? where hope to find A friendly harbour for the restless mind ? Who ftill , you fee , impatient to obtain Knowledge immenfe , ( fo Nature's laws ordain ) Ev'n now , tho ' fetter'd in corporeal clay , Climbs step ...
... means then shall we try ? where hope to find A friendly harbour for the restless mind ? Who ftill , you fee , impatient to obtain Knowledge immenfe , ( fo Nature's laws ordain ) Ev'n now , tho ' fetter'd in corporeal clay , Climbs step ...
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... mean the nodding plumes , the fun'ral train , And marble monument that speaks in vain , With all those cares , which ev'ry nation pays To their unfeeling dead in diff'rent ways ! Some in the flow'r - ftrewn grave the corpfe have lay'd ...
... mean the nodding plumes , the fun'ral train , And marble monument that speaks in vain , With all those cares , which ev'ry nation pays To their unfeeling dead in diff'rent ways ! Some in the flow'r - ftrewn grave the corpfe have lay'd ...
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