Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 4Jones & Company, 1829 |
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... Youth that with joys had unacquainted been , Envied gray hairs that once good days had seen : We thought our sires , not with their own content , Had , ere we came to age , our portion spent . Nor could our nobles hope their bold ...
... Youth that with joys had unacquainted been , Envied gray hairs that once good days had seen : We thought our sires , not with their own content , Had , ere we came to age , our portion spent . Nor could our nobles hope their bold ...
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... youth in exile and distress ! Who me unfriended brought'st , by wondrous ways , The kingdom of my fathers to possess : " Be thou my judge , with what unwearied care I since have laboured for my people's good , To bind the bruises of a ...
... youth in exile and distress ! Who me unfriended brought'st , by wondrous ways , The kingdom of my fathers to possess : " Be thou my judge , with what unwearied care I since have laboured for my people's good , To bind the bruises of a ...
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... youth betray By acts their age too late would wish undone . And yet dominion was not his design ; We owe that blessing not to him but Heaven , Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join , Rewards that less to him than us were given ...
... youth betray By acts their age too late would wish undone . And yet dominion was not his design ; We owe that blessing not to him but Heaven , Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join , Rewards that less to him than us were given ...
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... youth , that purged by boiling o'er ; And Amnon's murder , by a specious name , Was call'd a just revenge for injured fame . Thus praised and loved , the noble youth remain'd , While David undisturb'd in Sion reign'd , But life can ...
... youth , that purged by boiling o'er ; And Amnon's murder , by a specious name , Was call'd a just revenge for injured fame . Thus praised and loved , the noble youth remain'd , While David undisturb'd in Sion reign'd , But life can ...
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... youth your hopes engage , But shun th ' example of declining age ; Behold him setting in his western skies , The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise . He is not now as when , on Jordan's sand , The joyful people throng'd to see him ...
... youth your hopes engage , But shun th ' example of declining age ; Behold him setting in his western skies , The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise . He is not now as when , on Jordan's sand , The joyful people throng'd to see him ...
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