The beauties of the Poets: being a collection of moral and sacred poetry, from the most eminent authorsVernor, 1801 - 303 pages |
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... fate allows , That is man's lot ---- this all the heaven he knows . Thus they , who from the ways of truth decline , Pervert their reafon to confirm their fin ; The mists of fenfual luft so cloud their eye , They can't the mysteries of ...
... fate allows , That is man's lot ---- this all the heaven he knows . Thus they , who from the ways of truth decline , Pervert their reafon to confirm their fin ; The mists of fenfual luft so cloud their eye , They can't the mysteries of ...
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... that myself am blind . Yet gave me in this dark estate , To fee the good from ill ! And binding nature fast in fate , Left free the human will . What confcience dictates to be done , Or warns me 46 BEAUTIES OF THE POETS .
... that myself am blind . Yet gave me in this dark estate , To fee the good from ill ! And binding nature fast in fate , Left free the human will . What confcience dictates to be done , Or warns me 46 BEAUTIES OF THE POETS .
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... fate , “ Thy carcass scatter'd on the shore " Without a name , instructs me more " Than my whole library before . " Lie ftill , my Plutarch , then , and sleep , And my good Seneca may keep " Your volumes clos'd for ever too , " I have ...
... fate , “ Thy carcass scatter'd on the shore " Without a name , instructs me more " Than my whole library before . " Lie ftill , my Plutarch , then , and sleep , And my good Seneca may keep " Your volumes clos'd for ever too , " I have ...
Page 58
... fate will do : ' Tis enough that I can say I've poffeft myself to - day : Then if haply midnight death Seize my flesh and stop my breath , A Yet to - morrow I fhall be Heir to the best part of me . Glitt'ring ftones and golden things ...
... fate will do : ' Tis enough that I can say I've poffeft myself to - day : Then if haply midnight death Seize my flesh and stop my breath , A Yet to - morrow I fhall be Heir to the best part of me . Glitt'ring ftones and golden things ...
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... range sportive o'er the mead , Crop the fweet herb , and snuff the rich perfume O why alone to hapless man deny'd ' To taste the blifs inferior beings boast ? O why this fate that fear and pain divide His BEAUTIES OF THE POETS . 103.
... range sportive o'er the mead , Crop the fweet herb , and snuff the rich perfume O why alone to hapless man deny'd ' To taste the blifs inferior beings boast ? O why this fate that fear and pain divide His BEAUTIES OF THE POETS . 103.
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