I trusted: — (who from faults is always free?) And the short progress of one fatal day Was all the space 'twixt wealth and poverty. Where could I seek for comfort or for aid ? To whom the ruins of my state commend? Left to myself, abandon'd and betray'd,... The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 440edited by - 1779Full view - About this book
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