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The scheme proposed for this happy and independent subsistence was , that he
should retire into Wales , and receive an allowance of fifty poi nds ayear , to be
raised by a subscription , on which he was to live privately , in a cheap place ...
The scheme proposed for this happy and independent subsistence was , that he
should retire into Wales , and receive an allowance of fifty poi nds ayear , to be
raised by a subscription , on which he was to live privately , in a cheap place ...
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For years let wretches importune the skies , IS Till at the long expense of angoiih
wise They live to count their days by miseries . , Those win the prize who soonest
run the race , And life burns brightest in the shortest space . So to the convex ...
For years let wretches importune the skies , IS Till at the long expense of angoiih
wise They live to count their days by miseries . , Those win the prize who soonest
run the race , And life burns brightest in the shortest space . So to the convex ...
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You praise low - living but you live at large . Perhaps you scarce believe the rules
you teach , 30 Or find it hard to practise what you preach . Scarce have you paid
one idle journey down But without bus'ness you're again in Town . If none invite ...
You praise low - living but you live at large . Perhaps you scarce believe the rules
you teach , 30 Or find it hard to practise what you preach . Scarce have you paid
one idle journey down But without bus'ness you're again in Town . If none invite ...
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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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