The Lady's Poetical Magazine: Or, Beauties of British Poetry. ...Harrison and Company, 1791 - English poetry |
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... pursue . What bleffings thy free bounty gives , Let me not caft away : For God is paid , when man receives ; T ' enjoy , is to obey . Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound ; Or think thee Lord alone of man , When ...
... pursue . What bleffings thy free bounty gives , Let me not caft away : For God is paid , when man receives ; T ' enjoy , is to obey . Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound ; Or think thee Lord alone of man , When ...
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... pursue falfe joy , and suffer real woe . Happiness ! object of that waking dream Which we call life , mistaking ; fugitive theme Of my pursuing verfe ; ideal shade ; Notional good ; by fancy only made , And by tradition nurs'd ...
... pursue falfe joy , and suffer real woe . Happiness ! object of that waking dream Which we call life , mistaking ; fugitive theme Of my pursuing verfe ; ideal shade ; Notional good ; by fancy only made , And by tradition nurs'd ...
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... pursue The vary'd forms of ev'ry thing we view ; • That all is chang'd , tho ' all is still the fame , • Fluid the parts , yet durable the frame ? Of those materials which have been confefs'd The priftine fprings and parents of the reft ...
... pursue The vary'd forms of ev'ry thing we view ; • That all is chang'd , tho ' all is still the fame , • Fluid the parts , yet durable the frame ? Of those materials which have been confefs'd The priftine fprings and parents of the reft ...
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... pursue , Tir'd with the laft , and eager of the new . I bade the virgins and the youth advance , To temper mufick with the sprightly dance . In vain ! too low the mimick motions feem ; What takes our heart muft merit our esteem . Nature ...
... pursue , Tir'd with the laft , and eager of the new . I bade the virgins and the youth advance , To temper mufick with the sprightly dance . In vain ! too low the mimick motions feem ; What takes our heart muft merit our esteem . Nature ...
Page 118
... of joy bereav'd ' ; • One day , I think , in Paradise he liv'd , ' Destin'd the next his journey to pursue , • Where wounding thorns and curfed thiftles grew . Ere • Ere yet he earns his bread , a - 118 BEAUTIES OF POETRY .
... of joy bereav'd ' ; • One day , I think , in Paradise he liv'd , ' Destin'd the next his journey to pursue , • Where wounding thorns and curfed thiftles grew . Ere • Ere yet he earns his bread , a - 118 BEAUTIES OF POETRY .
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