The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White1829 |
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... , like Milton , an unerring eye Through the dim curtains of Futurity . ( 3 ) Wealth , Pleasure , Ease , all thought of self resign'd , What will not Man encounter for Mankind ? Behold him now unbar the prison - door , And HUMAN LIFE . I.
... , like Milton , an unerring eye Through the dim curtains of Futurity . ( 3 ) Wealth , Pleasure , Ease , all thought of self resign'd , What will not Man encounter for Mankind ? Behold him now unbar the prison - door , And HUMAN LIFE . I.
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... Behold him now unbar the prison - door , And , lifting Guilt , Contagion from the floor , To Peace and Health , and Light and Life restore ; Now in Thermopyla remain to share Death - nor look back , nor turn a footstep there , Leaving ...
... Behold him now unbar the prison - door , And , lifting Guilt , Contagion from the floor , To Peace and Health , and Light and Life restore ; Now in Thermopyla remain to share Death - nor look back , nor turn a footstep there , Leaving ...
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... behold him in an evil day Serving the State again - not as before , Not foot to foot , the war - whoop at his door , - But in the Senate : and ( though round him fly The jest , the sneer , the subtle sophistry , ) With honest dignity ...
... behold him in an evil day Serving the State again - not as before , Not foot to foot , the war - whoop at his door , - But in the Senate : and ( though round him fly The jest , the sneer , the subtle sophistry , ) With honest dignity ...
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... behold One who resembles thee . ' Tis the sixth hour . The village - clock strikes from the distant tower . The ploughman leaves the field ; the traveller hears , And to the inn spurs forward . Nature wears Her sweetest smile ; the day ...
... behold One who resembles thee . ' Tis the sixth hour . The village - clock strikes from the distant tower . The ploughman leaves the field ; the traveller hears , And to the inn spurs forward . Nature wears Her sweetest smile ; the day ...
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... behold , all is vanity and vexation of spirit . But who believes it , till Death tells it us ? It is Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself . He tells the proud and insolent , that they are but abjects , and humbles them ...
... behold , all is vanity and vexation of spirit . But who believes it , till Death tells it us ? It is Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself . He tells the proud and insolent , that they are but abjects , and humbles them ...
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