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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 28
edited by - 1779
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Choice Poems and Lyrics

Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...the fav'rites of the sky With more of happiness below Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither, oh ! whither art thou fled, To lay thy meek contented head ? What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease ? Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and...
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English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and ...

Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 pages
...and bred on high, To crown the favourites of the sky 133 Witu more of happiness below, Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither, O whither art thou fled,...To lay thy meek, contented head) What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease} Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and state,...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...the favorites of the sky With more of happiness below, Than victors in a triumph know! • Whither, 0 whither art thou fled, To lay thy meek, contented head; What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease ? Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...born, and bred on high, To crown the favourites of the sky With more of happiness below, Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither, O whither art thou fled,...To lay thy meek contented head ; What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease 1 Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and...
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Wise Sayings of the Great and Good

Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...born, and bred on high, To crown the favourites of the sky With more of happiness below, Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither, O whither art thou fled,...To lay thy meek contented head ? What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease ? A Hymn to Contentment. — THOMAS PARNELL. CONVERSATION....
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Life-lights of song, ed. by D. Page, Volume 3; Volume 57

Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...the fav'rites of the sky With more of happiness below Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither, oh ! whither art thou fled, To lay thy meek, contented head ? What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease ? Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...born, and bred on high, To crown the favorites of the sky With more of happiness below, Than victors in a triumph know! Whither, O whither art thou fled,...To lay thy meek, contented head ; What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease? Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and state,...
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Poetical Works: With a Memoir

Thomas Parnell - 1866 - 358 pages
...Heavenly-born and bred on high, To crown the favourites of the sky With more of happiness below, Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither, O whither art thou fled,...To lay thy meek, contented head ; What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease ! Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 31

Thomas Parnell - Irish poetry - 1866 - 324 pages
...Heavenly-born, and bred on high, To crown the favourites of the sky With more of happiness below, Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither, O whither art thou fled,...To lay thy meek, contented head ; What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease ! Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Parnell - Irish poetry - 1866 - 324 pages
...Heavenly-born, and bred on high, To crown the favourites of the sky With more of happiness below, Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither, O whither art thou fled,...To lay thy meek, contented head ; What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease ! Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and...
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