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To Contemplation's fober eye + Such is the race of Man ; And they that creep , and they that fly , Shall end where they began . Alike the Bufy and the Gay But flutter thro ' life's little day , In Fortune's varying colours dreft ...
To Contemplation's fober eye + Such is the race of Man ; And they that creep , and they that fly , Shall end where they began . Alike the Bufy and the Gay But flutter thro ' life's little day , In Fortune's varying colours dreft ...
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Say , Father THAMES , for thou haft feen Full many a sprightly race And bees their honey redolent of fpring . Dryden's Fable on the Pythag . Syftem S 1 Difporting on thy margent green The paths of 22 ODE ON A DISTANT.
Say , Father THAMES , for thou haft feen Full many a sprightly race And bees their honey redolent of fpring . Dryden's Fable on the Pythag . Syftem S 1 Difporting on thy margent green The paths of 22 ODE ON A DISTANT.
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Man's feeble race what ills await , Labour , and Penury , the racks of Pain , * * To compenfate the real and imaginary ills of life , the Mufe was given to mankind by the fame Providence that fends the day , by its chearful prefence ...
Man's feeble race what ills await , Labour , and Penury , the racks of Pain , * * To compenfate the real and imaginary ills of life , the Mufe was given to mankind by the fame Providence that fends the day , by its chearful prefence ...
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And above the firmament , that was over their heads , was the liknefs of a throne , as the appearance of a fapphire ftone . This was the appearance of the glo ry of the Lord , Ezekiel 1. 20 , 26 , 28 . Two Courfers of æthereal race + ...
And above the firmament , that was over their heads , was the liknefs of a throne , as the appearance of a fapphire ftone . This was the appearance of the glo ry of the Lord , Ezekiel 1. 20 , 26 , 28 . Two Courfers of æthereal race + ...
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Two Courfers of æthereal race + With necks in thunder cloath'd ‡ , and longrefounding pace . III . 3 . Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - ey'd Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe ...
Two Courfers of æthereal race + With necks in thunder cloath'd ‡ , and longrefounding pace . III . 3 . Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - ey'd Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictur'd urn Thoughts that breathe ...
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| Title | Poems by Mr. Gray. A new edition |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | Osborne & Griffin, 1787 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2013 |
| Length | 132 pages |
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