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... fame , Great in the earth as in t'h ethereal frame , Warms in the fun , refreshes in the breeze , Glows in the ftars , and bloffoms in the trees , Lives thro ' all life , extends thro ' all extent , Spreads undivided , operates unfpent ...
... fame , Great in the earth as in t'h ethereal frame , Warms in the fun , refreshes in the breeze , Glows in the ftars , and bloffoms in the trees , Lives thro ' all life , extends thro ' all extent , Spreads undivided , operates unfpent ...
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... fame . Self - love and reafon to one end afpire , Pain their averfion , pleasure their defire ; But greedy that its object would devour , This tafte the boney , and not wound the flower : 80 Pleafure , or wrong or rightly understood ...
... fame . Self - love and reafon to one end afpire , Pain their averfion , pleasure their defire ; But greedy that its object would devour , This tafte the boney , and not wound the flower : 80 Pleafure , or wrong or rightly understood ...
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... fame we learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those int'refts to resign ; Taught half by reafon , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . WHATE'ER the paffion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , 245 250 ...
... fame we learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those int'refts to resign ; Taught half by reafon , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . WHATE'ER the paffion , knowledge , fame , or pelf , 245 250 ...
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... fame his table , and the fame his bed ; Mo murder cloath'd him , and no murder fed . In the fame temple , the refounding wood , All vocal beings hymn'd their equal God : 150 155 I The Shrine with gore unftain'd , with gold undreft , EP ...
... fame his table , and the fame his bed ; Mo murder cloath'd him , and no murder fed . In the fame temple , the refounding wood , All vocal beings hymn'd their equal God : 150 155 I The Shrine with gore unftain'd , with gold undreft , EP ...
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... fame which in a Sire the fons obey'd , A Prince the father of a people made . 210 220 ' TILL then , by nature crown'd , each Patriarch fate , 215 King , Prieft , and Parent of his growing state ; On him , their fecond providence , they ...
... fame which in a Sire the fons obey'd , A Prince the father of a people made . 210 220 ' TILL then , by nature crown'd , each Patriarch fate , 215 King , Prieft , and Parent of his growing state ; On him , their fecond providence , they ...
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Page 30 - With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 9 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 25 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 97 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content.
Page 57 - Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!
Page 49 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Page 82 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows? where grows it not ? if vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Page 30 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 54 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 46 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.