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Letters ... to sir Horace Mann, ed. by lord Dover. Concluding ser - Page 150
by Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...credit, to his grave. To virtue only and her friends a friend, The world beside may murmur, or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls...grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. pThere St. John2 mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...to his grave : 120 To virtue only and her friends a friend, The world beside may murmur or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep : There my retreat the best companions grace, 12* Chiefs out of war, and statesmen...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...to his grave : 120 To Virtue only and her friends a friend, The world heside may murmur or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls...and but soothes my sleep. — There my retreat the hest companions grace, 125 Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place : There St. John mingles with...
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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 40

John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...credit to his grave : To Virtue only, and her friends a friend, The world beside may murmur or commend. Know all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep : There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefi out of war, and mtesmen out of...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...credit to his grave : To Virtue only and her friends a friend, The world heside may murmur or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and hut soothes my jleep.— There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...credit to his grave : To Virtue only and her friends a friend, Tin; world beside may murmur or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls...out of war, and statesmen out of place : There St. Johu mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightuing...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...credit to. his grave. To virtue only and her friends a friend, The world beside may murincr or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...credit to his grave. To virtue only and her friends a friend, The world besides may murmur or commend. Know, all the distant din that world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep, There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out...
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The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public ..., Volume 1

William Bernard Cooke - England - 1811 - 324 pages
...those lines that describe the society which sometimes graced it: — Know, all the distant din the world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes...statesmen out of place. There ST. JOHN mingles with the friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And HE whose lightning pierc'd th' Iberian...
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The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and ...

Samuel Owen - Thames River (England) - 1811 - 416 pages
...those lines that describe the society which sometimes graced it: — Know, all the distant din the world can keep, Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes...statesmen out of place. There ST. JOHN mingles with the friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And HE whose lightning pierc'd ih* Iberian...
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