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Of moral life were drawn from schools ) Do not we just abhorrence find 65 The shepherd's homely cottage sought , Against the toad and serpent kind ? And thus explor'd his reach of thought . But envy , calumny , and spite " Whence is thy ...
Of moral life were drawn from schools ) Do not we just abhorrence find 65 The shepherd's homely cottage sought , Against the toad and serpent kind ? And thus explor'd his reach of thought . But envy , calumny , and spite " Whence is thy ...
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“ The mean , suspicious wretch , whose bolted door Ne'er mov'd in duty to the wand'ring poor ; With him I left the cup , to teach his mind That Heav'n can bless , if mortals will be kind . Conscious of wanting worth , he views the bowl ...
“ The mean , suspicious wretch , whose bolted door Ne'er mov'd in duty to the wand'ring poor ; With him I left the cup , to teach his mind That Heav'n can bless , if mortals will be kind . Conscious of wanting worth , he views the bowl ...
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But happy they ! the happiest of their kind ! Whom gentler stars unite , and in one fate Their hearts , their fortunes , and their beings blend . ' Tis not the coarser tie of human laws , Unnatural oft , and foreign to the mind ...
But happy they ! the happiest of their kind ! Whom gentler stars unite , and in one fate Their hearts , their fortunes , and their beings blend . ' Tis not the coarser tie of human laws , Unnatural oft , and foreign to the mind ...
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Contents
MATTHEW PRIOR I | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
Alma or The Progress of The Mind Canto I | 15 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century |
| Editor | Cecil Albert Moore |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 942 pages |
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