Poems and PlaysMessrs. Price, Sleater, 1785 - 274 pages |
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... fear , With honeft thrift I held my honour dear ; But this vile hour difperfes all my ftore , And all my hoard of honour is no more ; For ah ! too partial to my life's decline , Cæfar perfuades , fubmiffion must be mine ; Him I obey ...
... fear , With honeft thrift I held my honour dear ; But this vile hour difperfes all my ftore , And all my hoard of honour is no more ; For ah ! too partial to my life's decline , Cæfar perfuades , fubmiffion must be mine ; Him I obey ...
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... Fear , pity , juftice , indignation start , Tear off referve , and bear my fwelling heart ; Till half a patriot , half a coward grown , I fly from petty tyrants to the throne . Yes , brother , curfe with me that baleful hour , When ...
... Fear , pity , juftice , indignation start , Tear off referve , and bear my fwelling heart ; Till half a patriot , half a coward grown , I fly from petty tyrants to the throne . Yes , brother , curfe with me that baleful hour , When ...
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... fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful fnake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey , And favage men more murd'rous ftill than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies , Mingling the ravag'd landscape with ...
... fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful fnake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey , And favage men more murd'rous ftill than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies , Mingling the ravag'd landscape with ...
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... fear'd for your fafety , I fear'd for my own ; But now he is gone , and we want a detector , Our ¶ Dodds fhall be pious , our * Kenricks fhall lecture ; + Macpherson write bombaft , and call it a ftyle , Our Townshend make fpeeches ...
... fear'd for your fafety , I fear'd for my own ; But now he is gone , and we want a detector , Our ¶ Dodds fhall be pious , our * Kenricks fhall lecture ; + Macpherson write bombaft , and call it a ftyle , Our Townshend make fpeeches ...
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... fear ; Who fcatter'd around wit and humour at will ; Whofe daily bons mots half a column might fill : A Scotchman , from pride and from prejudice free ; A fcholar , yet furely no pedant was he . What pity , alas ! that fo lib'ral a mind ...
... fear ; Who fcatter'd around wit and humour at will ; Whofe daily bons mots half a column might fill : A Scotchman , from pride and from prejudice free ; A fcholar , yet furely no pedant was he . What pity , alas ! that fo lib'ral a mind ...
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