Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1810 - English poetry |
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... Happy Matches AMBROSE PHILLIPS . A Fragment of Sappho WILLIAM COLLINS . Ode · Ode to Evening The Passions JOHN DYER . Grongar Hill EDWARD YOUNG . Uncertainty of Human Happiness Complaint for Narcissa Page • 283 296 · 297 298 • • 299 ...
... Happy Matches AMBROSE PHILLIPS . A Fragment of Sappho WILLIAM COLLINS . Ode · Ode to Evening The Passions JOHN DYER . Grongar Hill EDWARD YOUNG . Uncertainty of Human Happiness Complaint for Narcissa Page • 283 296 · 297 298 • • 299 ...
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... happy man , saith he , that lo I see , Grazing his cattle in those pleasant fields , If he but knew his good . How blessed he That feels not what affliction greatness yields ! Other than what he is he would not be , Nor change his state ...
... happy man , saith he , that lo I see , Grazing his cattle in those pleasant fields , If he but knew his good . How blessed he That feels not what affliction greatness yields ! Other than what he is he would not be , Nor change his state ...
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... happy you that look as from the shore , And have no venture in the wreck you see ; No interest , no occasion to deplore Other men's travels , while yourselves sit free . How much doth your sweet rest make us the more To see our misery ...
... happy you that look as from the shore , And have no venture in the wreck you see ; No interest , no occasion to deplore Other men's travels , while yourselves sit free . How much doth your sweet rest make us the more To see our misery ...
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... happy , shepherd's life and state ! When courts are happiness , unhappy pawns ! His cottage low and safely humble gate Shuts out proud Fortune , with her scorns and fawns : No feared treason breaks his quiet sleep : Singing all day ...
... happy , shepherd's life and state ! When courts are happiness , unhappy pawns ! His cottage low and safely humble gate Shuts out proud Fortune , with her scorns and fawns : No feared treason breaks his quiet sleep : Singing all day ...
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... happy days , The gods commit their glory to our praise ; T'eternal life when they dissolve their breath , We likewise share a second power by death . When time shall turn those amber locks to gray , My verse again shall gild and make ...
... happy days , The gods commit their glory to our praise ; T'eternal life when they dissolve their breath , We likewise share a second power by death . When time shall turn those amber locks to gray , My verse again shall gild and make ...
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