The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... virtue not a friend at court , No profit rises from th ' ungrateful stage , My poverty increasing with my age , ' Tis time to give my just disdain a vent , And , cursing , leave so base a government . Juv . sat . iii . In the original ...
... virtue not a friend at court , No profit rises from th ' ungrateful stage , My poverty increasing with my age , ' Tis time to give my just disdain a vent , And , cursing , leave so base a government . Juv . sat . iii . In the original ...
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... virtue poison'd , soon as born , With the too early thoughts of being king . Fortune , that easy mistress to the young , But to her ancient servants coy and hard , Him at that age her favourites rank'd among , When she her best - lov'd ...
... virtue poison'd , soon as born , With the too early thoughts of being king . Fortune , that easy mistress to the young , But to her ancient servants coy and hard , Him at that age her favourites rank'd among , When she her best - lov'd ...
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... virtues did survey , By intuition in his own large breast , Where all the rich ideas of them lay , That were the rule and measure to the rest . When such heroic virtue Heaven sets out , The stars 58 STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF 0. CROMWELL .
... virtues did survey , By intuition in his own large breast , Where all the rich ideas of them lay , That were the rule and measure to the rest . When such heroic virtue Heaven sets out , The stars 58 STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF 0. CROMWELL .
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With Lives of the Authors Ezekiel Sanford. When such heroic virtue Heaven sets out , The stars , like commons , sullenly obey ; Because it drains them when it comes about , And therefore is a tax they seldom pay . From this high spring ...
With Lives of the Authors Ezekiel Sanford. When such heroic virtue Heaven sets out , The stars , like commons , sullenly obey ; Because it drains them when it comes about , And therefore is a tax they seldom pay . From this high spring ...
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... virtue , were with laurels dress'd . As souls reach Heaven while yet in bodies pent , So did he live above his ... virtues Galba in a stranger sought , And Piso to adopted empire brought . How shall I then my doubtful thoughts express ...
... virtue , were with laurels dress'd . As souls reach Heaven while yet in bodies pent , So did he live above his ... virtues Galba in a stranger sought , And Piso to adopted empire brought . How shall I then my doubtful thoughts express ...
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