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Say , what have honours to allure the mind , Which he gains most who least has
serv'd mankind ? Titles , when worn by fools ... Still we love best what we with
labour gain , As the child's dearer for the mother's pain . The great I would not
envy ...
Say , what have honours to allure the mind , Which he gains most who least has
serv'd mankind ? Titles , when worn by fools ... Still we love best what we with
labour gain , As the child's dearer for the mother's pain . The great I would not
envy ...
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-thou Friend ! If worldly friendships of cement divide 5 As int'rests vary , or as
whims preside ; If leagues of Lux'ry borrow Friendship's light , Or leagues
subversive of all social right ; O say , my Hill ! in what propitious sphere Gain we
the Friend ...
-thou Friend ! If worldly friendships of cement divide 5 As int'rests vary , or as
whims preside ; If leagues of Lux'ry borrow Friendship's light , Or leagues
subversive of all social right ; O say , my Hill ! in what propitious sphere Gain we
the Friend ...
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20 Say , shall I turn where lucre points my views , IS At first desert my friends , at
length abuse ? But on less terms in promise he complies ; Years bury years , and
hopes on hopes arise : I trust , am trusted , on my fairy gain , And woes on woes ...
20 Say , shall I turn where lucre points my views , IS At first desert my friends , at
length abuse ? But on less terms in promise he complies ; Years bury years , and
hopes on hopes arise : I trust , am trusted , on my fairy gain , And woes on woes ...
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Contents
To the Right Hon Sir Robert Walpole | 151 |
To Mr John Dyer a Painter c | 159 |
To Aaron Hill Esq with the Tragedy of | 165 |
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| Title | Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ... Volumes 88-90 of Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Illustrated by | Thomas Stothard, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1776 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
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