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... feriously perufed , and meditated upon , by all thofe into whofe hands they may chance to fall . Old gold is faid to ac- quire purity from its age . - Long contracted friend . fhips are most highly efteemed . - The worth of TO THE READER .
... feriously perufed , and meditated upon , by all thofe into whofe hands they may chance to fall . Old gold is faid to ac- quire purity from its age . - Long contracted friend . fhips are most highly efteemed . - The worth of TO THE READER .
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... friend , the author of it , who had been dead many years before it came into my hands . I took a copy of it , which , together with the ori . ginal happened to be mislaid fhortly afterwards . When nearly seven years had elapfed , at ...
... friend , the author of it , who had been dead many years before it came into my hands . I took a copy of it , which , together with the ori . ginal happened to be mislaid fhortly afterwards . When nearly seven years had elapfed , at ...
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... they drop , nor know The fmalleft difference ' twixt friend and foe . Perhaps their crumbling bones together all Unite in common , as they mouldring fall , Those who were filled with invet'rate hate , And for THE TOMBS . 1 E.
... they drop , nor know The fmalleft difference ' twixt friend and foe . Perhaps their crumbling bones together all Unite in common , as they mouldring fall , Those who were filled with invet'rate hate , And for THE TOMBS . 1 E.
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... friendship live ; Refentment's fever from our minds erafe , Nor fuffer paffion's fierceness to increase ; Mindlefs of injuries , and free from strife , To pass the thorny road of human life ; That no more variance the quick might dread ...
... friendship live ; Refentment's fever from our minds erafe , Nor fuffer paffion's fierceness to increase ; Mindlefs of injuries , and free from strife , To pass the thorny road of human life ; That no more variance the quick might dread ...
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... friend , Bid on the op'ning grave his eyes to bend . And foftly hint the momentary fpan , On earth allotted to that creature , man ; How vaftly out of time would he have thought The admonitions which he then was taught ! Tho ' rich in ...
... friend , Bid on the op'ning grave his eyes to bend . And foftly hint the momentary fpan , On earth allotted to that creature , man ; How vaftly out of time would he have thought The admonitions which he then was taught ! Tho ' rich in ...
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Page 33 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page ix - When I was a school-boy, a relation of mine, long deceased, was so kind as to lend me the original poem of Yarico to Inkle, which he got from an intimate friend, the author of it, who had been dead many years before it came into my handS.
Page 213 - Did' it from hate, or thirft of gain proceed ? Urge nothing — for if love's not in our pow'r, Is there from gratitude requir'd no more ? That's the grand tie that fliould for ever bind, The fureft charm to fix a noble mind. *
Page 10 - Poeta nascitur, non fit. That is to say, you cannot make a poet out of a barber's block. cation of your readers, not doubting but they will agree with me, that they are as excellent in point of sentiment, as in sweetness and elegance. Medita.tion
Page 29 - Nothing more certain, and which shall endure, Than laws of Medes and Per-si-ans more sure. To say that death could from such bliss arise, A happy im-pro-pri-e-ty implies.
Page ix - I could fafely pafs with the public as the author of it — a kind of fraud, however, which I fnall never be guilty of.
Page 15 - Remember that of them you're not bereav'd, But from " the coming evil they are fav'd.
Page 213 - The virgin's envy, and the youth's delight ; Nor was my birth unequal to my fame, I from a race of fov'reign princes came. My love, the no...
Page 11 - Their former variances all obey, And to an amicable end give way. Here thofe who, living, were at enmity, By Death are brought to dwell in unity.