Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue : and with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry |
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... fpread , Seem length'ning as I go . ” « Forbear , my fon , " the Hermit cries , To tempt the dangerous gloom ; " For yonder faithlefs phantom flies " To lure thee to thy door . " Here , to the houfelefs child of want , " My door is open ...
... fpread , Seem length'ning as I go . ” « Forbear , my fon , " the Hermit cries , To tempt the dangerous gloom ; " For yonder faithlefs phantom flies " To lure thee to thy door . " Here , to the houfelefs child of want , " My door is open ...
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... , Receiv'd the harmless pair . And now , when busy crowds retire To take their evening reft , The Hermit trinım'd his little fire , And cheer'd his penfive gueft ; And fpread his vegetable ftore , And gayly prefs'd and SELECT POEMS . 5.
... , Receiv'd the harmless pair . And now , when busy crowds retire To take their evening reft , The Hermit trinım'd his little fire , And cheer'd his penfive gueft ; And fpread his vegetable ftore , And gayly prefs'd and SELECT POEMS . 5.
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... fpread his vegetable ftore , And gayly prefs'd and smil`d , And , fkill'd in legendary lore , The ling'ring hours beguil'd . Around , in fympathetic mirth , Its tricks the kitten tries : The cricket chirrups in the hearth , The ...
... fpread his vegetable ftore , And gayly prefs'd and smil`d , And , fkill'd in legendary lore , The ling'ring hours beguil'd . Around , in fympathetic mirth , Its tricks the kitten tries : The cricket chirrups in the hearth , The ...
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... fpread my ftore , Unbar my hofpitable door ; Nor feed with pomp an idle train , While want , unpitied , pines in vain .. V. If Heaven , in every purpose wife , The envied lot of wealth denies ; If doom'd to drag life's painful load ...
... fpread my ftore , Unbar my hofpitable door ; Nor feed with pomp an idle train , While want , unpitied , pines in vain .. V. If Heaven , in every purpose wife , The envied lot of wealth denies ; If doom'd to drag life's painful load ...
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... fpread around , and here and there , Spike after spike , their fcanty harvest pick . Be not too narrow , Hufbandmen ! but fling From the full fheaf , with charitable stealth , The lib'ral handful . Think , oh , grateful , think ! How ...
... fpread around , and here and there , Spike after spike , their fcanty harvest pick . Be not too narrow , Hufbandmen ! but fling From the full fheaf , with charitable stealth , The lib'ral handful . Think , oh , grateful , think ! How ...
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