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... seek it in his climate and his frame . Lib'ral in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the year . Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's drooping flow'rs ; Unwelcome vapours ...
... seek it in his climate and his frame . Lib'ral in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the year . Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's drooping flow'rs ; Unwelcome vapours ...
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... seek the distant plain ? No. His high mettle , under good control , Gives him Olympic speed , and shoots him to the goal . Let Discipline employ her wholesome arts ; Let magistrates alert perform their parts , Not skulk or put on a ...
... seek the distant plain ? No. His high mettle , under good control , Gives him Olympic speed , and shoots him to the goal . Let Discipline employ her wholesome arts ; Let magistrates alert perform their parts , Not skulk or put on a ...
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... 'd Might well alarm the most unguarded mind , Seek to supplant his inexperienced youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in themselves THE PROGRESS OF ERROUR . 37.
... 'd Might well alarm the most unguarded mind , Seek to supplant his inexperienced youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in themselves THE PROGRESS OF ERROUR . 37.
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... seek- Mercy is infinite , and man is weak ; The future shall obliterate the past , And Heav'n no doubt shall be their home at last . Come then - a still , small whisper in your ear- He has no hope who never had a fear ; And he that ...
... seek- Mercy is infinite , and man is weak ; The future shall obliterate the past , And Heav'n no doubt shall be their home at last . Come then - a still , small whisper in your ear- He has no hope who never had a fear ; And he that ...
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... 'd , The thousands whom the world forbids to rest , Where should they find , ( those comforts at an end The Scripture yields ) or hope to find , a friend ? VOL . I. G Sorrow might muse herself to madness then , And seeking TRUTH . 81.
... 'd , The thousands whom the world forbids to rest , Where should they find , ( those comforts at an end The Scripture yields ) or hope to find , a friend ? VOL . I. G Sorrow might muse herself to madness then , And seeking TRUTH . 81.
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Page 352 - Good lack ! quoth he, yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword When I do exercise.
Page 266 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Page 284 - The cup was all fill'd, and the leaves were all wet, And it seem'd to a fanciful view To weep for the buds it had left, with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, And swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas! I snapp'd it, it fell to the ground. And such...
Page 144 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropp'd upon his Bible was sincere ; Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 318 - Had cheer'd the village with his song, • Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. 2. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent—
Page 264 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 186 - Dubius is such a scrupulous good man ! Yes, you may catch him tripping if you can. He would not with a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his own ; With hesitation admirably slow He humbly hopes, presumes, it may be so.
Page 266 - But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair.
Page 363 - But He, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace designed To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Called for a cloud to darken all their years, And said ' Go spend them in the vale of tears...
Page 309 - O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold ; But, though slave they have enrolled me, Minds are never to be sold. Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task ? Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.