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... worth , with all its gold and glitt'ring store , Just what the toy will sell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom us'd , how little understood ! To pour in Virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep Vice ...
... worth , with all its gold and glitt'ring store , Just what the toy will sell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom us'd , how little understood ! To pour in Virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep Vice ...
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... worth of his three kingdoms I defy , To lure me to the baseness of a lie : And , of all lies , ( be that one poet's boast , ) The lie that flatters I abhor the most . Those arts be theirs , who hate his gentle reign , But he that loves ...
... worth of his three kingdoms I defy , To lure me to the baseness of a lie : And , of all lies , ( be that one poet's boast , ) The lie that flatters I abhor the most . Those arts be theirs , who hate his gentle reign , But he that loves ...
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... worth the search , may yet elude Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Lib'ral in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out ...
... worth the search , may yet elude Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Lib'ral in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out ...
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... worth untold ; Cheap though blood - bought , and thrown away when sold ; May no foes ravish thee , and no false friend Betray thee , while professing to defend ! Prize it , ye ministers ; ye monarchs , spare ; Ye patriots , guard it ...
... worth untold ; Cheap though blood - bought , and thrown away when sold ; May no foes ravish thee , and no false friend Betray thee , while professing to defend ! Prize it , ye ministers ; ye monarchs , spare ; Ye patriots , guard it ...
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... worth ; Courage , ungrac'd by these , affronts the skies , Is but the fire without the sacrifice . The stream , that feeds the wellspring of the heart , Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than Virtue quickens with a warmth ...
... worth ; Courage , ungrac'd by these , affronts the skies , Is but the fire without the sacrifice . The stream , that feeds the wellspring of the heart , Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than Virtue quickens with a warmth ...
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Page 237 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.
Page 442 - Faithful remembrancer of one so dear, 0 welcome guest, though unexpected here ! Who bidd'st me honour with an artless song, Affectionate, a mother lost so long. 1 will obey, not willingly alone, But gladly, as the precept were her own : And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she.
Page 213 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.
Page 386 - The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence, For there is none to covet, all are full, The lion, and the libbard, and the bear, Graze with the fearless flocks ; all bask at noon Together, or all gambol in the shade Of the same grove, and drink one common stream.
Page 232 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more. Away went Gilpin neck or nought, Away went hat and wig, He little dreamt when he set out Of running such a rig.
Page 230 - Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Page 382 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs, Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 237 - ... that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Page 169 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Page 161 - 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. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.