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Page 91
... worth , with all its gold and glittering store , Just what the toy will sell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom used , how little understood ! To pour in virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep vice ...
... worth , with all its gold and glittering store , Just what the toy will sell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom used , how little understood ! To pour in virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep vice ...
Page 299
... worth . O blest seclusion from a jarring world , Which he thus occupied enjoys ! Retreat Cannot indeed to guilty man restore Lost innocence , or cancel follies past ; But it has peace , and much secures the mind From all assaults of ...
... worth . O blest seclusion from a jarring world , Which he thus occupied enjoys ! Retreat Cannot indeed to guilty man restore Lost innocence , or cancel follies past ; But it has peace , and much secures the mind From all assaults of ...
Page 308
... worth , most pleased when idle most , Whose only happy are their wasted hours . Even misses , at whose age their mothers wore The backstring and the bib , assume the dress Of womanhood , sit pupils in the school Of card - devoted time ...
... worth , most pleased when idle most , Whose only happy are their wasted hours . Even misses , at whose age their mothers wore The backstring and the bib , assume the dress Of womanhood , sit pupils in the school Of card - devoted time ...
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