Poems and PlaysMessrs. Price, Sleater, 1785 - 274 pages |
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... happiest man alive ; He drank his glafs and crack'd his joke , And freshmen wonder'd as he spoke . Such pleasures unallay'd with care , Could any accident impair ? Could Cupid's fhaft at length transfix , Our fwain arriv'd at thirty ...
... happiest man alive ; He drank his glafs and crack'd his joke , And freshmen wonder'd as he spoke . Such pleasures unallay'd with care , Could any accident impair ? Could Cupid's fhaft at length transfix , Our fwain arriv'd at thirty ...
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... Happiness and Obfcurity , with an income of forty pounds a year . I Now perceive , my dear brother , the wisdom of your humble choice . You have entered upon a facred office , where the harvest is great , and the labourers are but few ...
... Happiness and Obfcurity , with an income of forty pounds a year . I Now perceive , my dear brother , the wisdom of your humble choice . You have entered upon a facred office , where the harvest is great , and the labourers are but few ...
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... I folicitous to know . My aims are right.- Without efpoufing the cause of any party , I have at- tempted to moderate the rage of all . I have endeavour- ed to fhew , that there may be equal happiness C 5 DEDICATION . 23 Traveller, a Poem.
... I folicitous to know . My aims are right.- Without efpoufing the cause of any party , I have at- tempted to moderate the rage of all . I have endeavour- ed to fhew , that there may be equal happiness C 5 DEDICATION . 23 Traveller, a Poem.
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Oliver Goldsmith. ed to fhew , that there may be equal happiness in ftates , that are differently governed from our own ; that every ftate has a particular principle of happinefs , and that this principle in each may be carried to a ...
Oliver Goldsmith. ed to fhew , that there may be equal happiness in ftates , that are differently governed from our own ; that every ftate has a particular principle of happinefs , and that this principle in each may be carried to a ...
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... happiness attends , And fpurns the plan that aims at other ends ; Till , carried to excefs in each domain , This fav'rite good begets peculiar pain . But let us try thefe truths with closer eyes , And trace them through the profpect as ...
... happiness attends , And fpurns the plan that aims at other ends ; Till , carried to excefs in each domain , This fav'rite good begets peculiar pain . But let us try thefe truths with closer eyes , And trace them through the profpect as ...
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