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... peace shall have no power to disturb you . Your whole employment shall be to make your life easy , and to en . tertain every sense with its proper gratifications . Sump- tuous tables , beds of roses , clouds of perfumes , concerts of ...
... peace shall have no power to disturb you . Your whole employment shall be to make your life easy , and to en . tertain every sense with its proper gratifications . Sump- tuous tables , beds of roses , clouds of perfumes , concerts of ...
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... peace . BESIDES , the imitation of anger , which is easily formed , will produce the same effect upon others , as if the passion was real . If therefore to quicken the slow , to rouse the inattentive , and restrain the fierce , it is ...
... peace . BESIDES , the imitation of anger , which is easily formed , will produce the same effect upon others , as if the passion was real . If therefore to quicken the slow , to rouse the inattentive , and restrain the fierce , it is ...
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... peace ? ROSSE . No ; they were at peace when I did leave ' em .. MACD . Be not a niggard of your speech : how goes it ? ROSSE . When I caine hither to transport the tidings , Which I have heavily borne , there ran a rumour Of many ...
... peace ? ROSSE . No ; they were at peace when I did leave ' em .. MACD . Be not a niggard of your speech : how goes it ? ROSSE . When I caine hither to transport the tidings , Which I have heavily borne , there ran a rumour Of many ...
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Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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