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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Page 58
... lives , and I infpire . " Tis the Mufe that deigns to ask , Can thy hand forget its task ? Or can the Lyre its strains refuse To the Patron of the Mufe ? Hark , what notes of artless love The feather'd poets of the grove , Grateful for ...
... lives , and I infpire . " Tis the Mufe that deigns to ask , Can thy hand forget its task ? Or can the Lyre its strains refuse To the Patron of the Mufe ? Hark , what notes of artless love The feather'd poets of the grove , Grateful for ...
Page 61
... lives in vain ; For fable Death ftill hov'ring o'er his head , Cuts fhort his progrefs , with his vital thread . Wherefore , fince Nature errs not , do we find These feeds of Science in the human mind , If no congenial fruits are ...
... lives in vain ; For fable Death ftill hov'ring o'er his head , Cuts fhort his progrefs , with his vital thread . Wherefore , fince Nature errs not , do we find These feeds of Science in the human mind , If no congenial fruits are ...
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Robert Dodsley. In courts , in camps , in fenates let us live , Our levees crowded like the buzzing hive : Each weak attempt the fame fad lesson brings , Alas , what vanity in human things ! What means then shall we try ? where hope to ...
Robert Dodsley. In courts , in camps , in fenates let us live , Our levees crowded like the buzzing hive : Each weak attempt the fame fad lesson brings , Alas , what vanity in human things ! What means then shall we try ? where hope to ...
Page 66
... live , All are concern'd about , and all believe ; That something's ours , when we from life depart , This all conceive , all feel it at the heart ; The wife of learn'd antiquity proclaim This truth , the public voice declares the fame ...
... live , All are concern'd about , and all believe ; That something's ours , when we from life depart , This all conceive , all feel it at the heart ; The wife of learn'd antiquity proclaim This truth , the public voice declares the fame ...
Page 69
... live , The vulgar give them forms , and limbs , and faces , And habitations in peculiar places ; Hence reafoners more refin'd , but not more wife , Struck with the glare of fuch abfurdities , Their whole existence fabulous suspect , And ...
... live , The vulgar give them forms , and limbs , and faces , And habitations in peculiar places ; Hence reafoners more refin'd , but not more wife , Struck with the glare of fuch abfurdities , Their whole existence fabulous suspect , And ...
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