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... thought condemns ! Think'st thou the man By birth exalted , by the lavish hand [ hours Of Fortune crown'd with honor , whose gay Dance to the melting lute's melodious lay , Is happy ? -Know , thy wandering search mistakes The shade for ...
... thought condemns ! Think'st thou the man By birth exalted , by the lavish hand [ hours Of Fortune crown'd with honor , whose gay Dance to the melting lute's melodious lay , Is happy ? -Know , thy wandering search mistakes The shade for ...
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... thought ! Eternal , self - deriv'd , and unbegot , Approach , celestial Muse , th ' empyreal throne , And awfully adore th ' exalted One ! In nature pure , in place supremely free , And happy in essential unity ! Bless'd in himself ...
... thought ! Eternal , self - deriv'd , and unbegot , Approach , celestial Muse , th ' empyreal throne , And awfully adore th ' exalted One ! In nature pure , in place supremely free , And happy in essential unity ! Bless'd in himself ...
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... thought so strange ! What pow'r can force Omnipotence to change ? If from his own divine productive thought , Were yet the stranger alteration wrought ; Could excellence supreme new rays acquire ? Or strong perfection raise its glories ...
... thought so strange ! What pow'r can force Omnipotence to change ? If from his own divine productive thought , Were yet the stranger alteration wrought ; Could excellence supreme new rays acquire ? Or strong perfection raise its glories ...
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... thought the mystic change pursues , And with delight Almighty Wisdom views ! The brute , the vegetable world surveys , Sees life subsisting ev'n from life's decays ! Marks the self - taught , the pensive reptile come , Spin his thin ...
... thought the mystic change pursues , And with delight Almighty Wisdom views ! The brute , the vegetable world surveys , Sees life subsisting ev'n from life's decays ! Marks the self - taught , the pensive reptile come , Spin his thin ...
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... thought , And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars . At this still hour the self - collected soul Turns inward and beholds a stranger there Of high descent , and more than mortal rank ; An embryo God ; a spark of fire divine , Which ...
... thought , And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars . At this still hour the self - collected soul Turns inward and beholds a stranger there Of high descent , and more than mortal rank ; An embryo God ; a spark of fire divine , Which ...
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