Poems and PlaysMessrs. Price, Sleater, 1785 - 274 pages |
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... round about it twin'd , Denote him of the reptile kind ; Denote the rage with which he writes , His frothy flaver , venom❜d bites ; An equal femblance ftill to keep , Alike too , both conduce to fleep . This diff'rence only , as the ...
... round about it twin'd , Denote him of the reptile kind ; Denote the rage with which he writes , His frothy flaver , venom❜d bites ; An equal femblance ftill to keep , Alike too , both conduce to fleep . This diff'rence only , as the ...
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... round his dwelling guardian faints attend ; Bleft be that spot , where chearful guests retire To paufe from toil and trim their ev'ning fire ; Bleft that abode , where want and pain repair , And ev'ry ftranger finds a ready chair ...
... round his dwelling guardian faints attend ; Bleft be that spot , where chearful guests retire To paufe from toil and trim their ev'ning fire ; Bleft that abode , where want and pain repair , And ev'ry ftranger finds a ready chair ...
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... round , Ye lakes , whofe veffels catch the bufy gale , Ye bending fwains , that dress the flow'ry vale , For me your tributary ftores combine Creation's heir , the world , the world is mine . As fome lone mifer vifiting his ftore ...
... round , Ye lakes , whofe veffels catch the bufy gale , Ye bending fwains , that dress the flow'ry vale , For me your tributary ftores combine Creation's heir , the world , the world is mine . As fome lone mifer vifiting his ftore ...
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... round the fmiling land . But fmall the blifs that fenfe alone beftows , And fenfual blifs is all the nation knows . In florid beauty groves and fields appear , Man feems the only growth that dwindles here . Contrafted faults through all ...
... round the fmiling land . But fmall the blifs that fenfe alone beftows , And fenfual blifs is all the nation knows . In florid beauty groves and fields appear , Man feems the only growth that dwindles here . Contrafted faults through all ...
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... round furveys His childrens looks that brighten at the blaze ; While his lov'd partner , boastful of her hoard , Displays her cleanly platter on the board : And haply too fome pilgrim thither led , With many a tale repays the nightly ...
... round furveys His childrens looks that brighten at the blaze ; While his lov'd partner , boastful of her hoard , Displays her cleanly platter on the board : And haply too fome pilgrim thither led , With many a tale repays the nightly ...
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