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A bookish mind , with pedantry unfraught , Oft ' a sedate , yet never gloomy
thought ; Prompt to rejoice when others pleasure know , 5 And prompt to feel the
pang for others ' woe z To soften faults to which a foe is prone , And in a friend's ...
A bookish mind , with pedantry unfraught , Oft ' a sedate , yet never gloomy
thought ; Prompt to rejoice when others pleasure know , 5 And prompt to feel the
pang for others ' woe z To soften faults to which a foe is prone , And in a friend's ...
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20 To prove by these the sons of men may owe IS The fruits of bliss to bursting
clouds of woe ; That ev'n Calamity , by thought refin'd , Inspirits and adorns the
thinking mind . Come , Contemplation ! whose unbounded gaze , Swift , in a
glance ...
20 To prove by these the sons of men may owe IS The fruits of bliss to bursting
clouds of woe ; That ev'n Calamity , by thought refin'd , Inspirits and adorns the
thinking mind . Come , Contemplation ! whose unbounded gaze , Swift , in a
glance ...
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Of thro ' these bows departed spirits range , 375 New to the skies , admiring at
their change ; Each mind a void , as when first born to earth , Behold a second
blank in second birth ; Then , as yon seraph - bard fram'd hearts below , Each
sees ...
Of thro ' these bows departed spirits range , 375 New to the skies , admiring at
their change ; Each mind a void , as when first born to earth , Behold a second
blank in second birth ; Then , as yon seraph - bard fram'd hearts below , Each
sees ...
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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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