The Poems and PlaysMethuen, 1905 - 183 pages |
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... hand at a play , The Good - Natur'd Man , which was produced with moderate success in 1768 ; but he triumphantly retrieved his fortune by his second narrative poem , The Deserted Village , which was published in 1770 , and by his second ...
... hand at a play , The Good - Natur'd Man , which was produced with moderate success in 1768 ; but he triumphantly retrieved his fortune by his second narrative poem , The Deserted Village , which was published in 1770 , and by his second ...
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... hand to hand , It shifts in splendid traffic round the land : From courts , to camps , to cottages it strays , And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please , are pleas'd , they give to get esteem , Till , seeming bless'd , they ...
... hand to hand , It shifts in splendid traffic round the land : From courts , to camps , to cottages it strays , And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please , are pleas'd , they give to get esteem , Till , seeming bless'd , they ...
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... hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagin'd right , above control , While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan , And learns to venerate himself as man . Thine , Freedom , thine the blessings pictur'd here ...
... hand ; Fierce in their native hardiness of soul , True to imagin'd right , above control , While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan , And learns to venerate himself as man . Thine , Freedom , thine the blessings pictur'd here ...
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... hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain . No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , chok'd with sedges , works its weedy way ...
... hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain . No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , chok'd with sedges , works its weedy way ...
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... hand had form'd the scene , Bending at once with sorrow and with age , With many a tear , and many a sigh between , 160 ' And where , ' he cried , ' shall now my babes have bread , Or how shall age support its feeble fire ? No lord will ...
... hand had form'd the scene , Bending at once with sorrow and with age , With many a tear , and many a sigh between , 160 ' And where , ' he cried , ' shall now my babes have bread , Or how shall age support its feeble fire ? No lord will ...
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