Poems and PlaysMessrs. Price, Sleater, 1785 - 274 pages |
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... 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 , whom Heav'n itself obeys , Hopeless ...
... 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 , whom Heav'n itself obeys , Hopeless ...
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... honour ends . THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION . A TALE . SECLUDED ECLUDED from domeftic ftrife , Jack Book - worm led a college life ; A fellowship at twenty - five Made him the happiest man alive ; He drank his glafs and crack'd his joke ...
... honour ends . THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION . A TALE . SECLUDED ECLUDED from domeftic ftrife , Jack Book - worm led a college life ; A fellowship at twenty - five Made him the happiest man alive ; He drank his glafs and crack'd his joke ...
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... honour , liberty , content . Yet these each other's pow'r so strong contest , That either feems deftructive of the reft . Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails , And honour finks where commerce long prevails . Hence ev'ry ...
... honour , liberty , content . Yet these each other's pow'r so strong contest , That either feems deftructive of the reft . Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails , And honour finks where commerce long prevails . Hence ev'ry ...
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... honour forms the focial temper here . Honour , that praise which real merit gains , Or ev'n imaginary worth obtains , Here paffes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts in fplendid traffic round the land : From courts , to camps ...
... honour forms the focial temper here . Honour , that praise which real merit gains , Or ev'n imaginary worth obtains , Here paffes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts in fplendid traffic round the land : From courts , to camps ...
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... honour fail to fway , Fictitious bonds , the bonds of wealth and law , Still gather ftrength , and force unwilling awe . Hence all obedience bows to these alone , And talent finks , and merit weeps unknown ; Till time may come , when ...
... honour fail to fway , Fictitious bonds , the bonds of wealth and law , Still gather ftrength , and force unwilling awe . Hence all obedience bows to these alone , And talent finks , and merit weeps unknown ; Till time may come , when ...
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