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... rest of his life , as he was devotedly attached to her . After the latter event he turned again to poetry for com- fort , and in 1754 wrote the " Ode to Vicissitude " and " The Progress of Poesy , " and began " The Bard . " In 1756 he ...
... rest of his life , as he was devotedly attached to her . After the latter event he turned again to poetry for com- fort , and in 1754 wrote the " Ode to Vicissitude " and " The Progress of Poesy , " and began " The Bard . " In 1756 he ...
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... rest , O Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood . 60 The applause of listening senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes ...
... rest , O Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood . 60 The applause of listening senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes ...
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... rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth , to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair science frowned not on his humble birth , And melancholy marked him for her own . Large was his bounty , and his soul sincere , Heaven did a recompense ...
... rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth , to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair science frowned not on his humble birth , And melancholy marked him for her own . Large was his bounty , and his soul sincere , Heaven did a recompense ...
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... rest . Methinks I hear , in accents low , The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On ...
... rest . Methinks I hear , in accents low , The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On ...
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... rests among the dead . 65 65 The swarm , that in thy noontide beam were born ? Gone to salute the rising morn . O Fair laughs the morn , and soft the zephyr blows , While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded ...
... rests among the dead . 65 65 The swarm , that in thy noontide beam were born ? Gone to salute the rising morn . O Fair laughs the morn , and soft the zephyr blows , While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded ...
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