 I trusted: — (who from faults is always free?) And the short progress of one fatal day Was all the space 'twixt wealth and poverty. Where could I seek for comfort or for aid ? To whom the ruins of my state commend? Left to myself, abandon'd and betray'd,...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 440edited by - 1779Full view - About this book
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...Where could I seek for comfort, or for aid ?_ To whom the ruins of my state commend ? Left to myself, abandon'd, and betray'd, Too late I found the wretched have no friend ! E'en he amid the rest, the favor'd youth, Whose vows had met the tenderest warm return, Forgot his oaths of constancy... | |
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...\Vhere could I feck for comfort or for aid ? To whom the ruins of my flate commend? Left tomyfelf, abandon'd and betray'd, Too late I found the wretched...the reft, the favour'd youth, Whofe vows had met the tenderell warm return, Forgot his oaths of conftancy and truth, And left my child in folitude to mourn.... | |
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...the ruins of my flate commend? Left tom yfelf, abandon'd and betray'd, Too late I found the wretehed have no friend ! E'en he, amid the reft, the favour'd...met the tendereft warm return, Forgot his oaths of conflancy and truth, And left my child in folitude to mourn. Pity in vain ftreteh'd forth her feeble... | |
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 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...seek for comfort, or for aid ? To whom the ruins of tny state commend ? Left to myself, abanuori'd, and betray'd, Too late I found the wretched have no friend ! E'en he amid the rest, the favour'd youth, Whose vows had met the tenderest warm return, Forgot his oaths of constancy... | |
 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
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 | Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...Where could I seek for comfort or for aid ? To whom the ruin of my state commend ? Left to myself, abandon'd and betray'd, Too late I found the wretched have no friend ! E'en he, amid the rest—the favour'd youth Whose vows had met the tenderest warm return Forgot his oaths of constancy... | |
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