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... eyes the flatterer bows , And binds a wreath about their baby brows ; Whom education stiffens into state , And death awakens from that dream too late . Oh ! if Servility , with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to ...
... eyes the flatterer bows , And binds a wreath about their baby brows ; Whom education stiffens into state , And death awakens from that dream too late . Oh ! if Servility , with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to ...
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... eyes ; No shades of superstition blot the day , Liberty chases all that gloom away ; The soul emancipated , unoppress'd , Free to prove all things , and hold fast the best , Learns much ; and to a thousand listening minds Communicates ...
... eyes ; No shades of superstition blot the day , Liberty chases all that gloom away ; The soul emancipated , unoppress'd , Free to prove all things , and hold fast the best , Learns much ; and to a thousand listening minds Communicates ...
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... eye like his to catch the distant goal ; Or , ere the wheels of verse begin to roll , Like his to shed illuminating rays On every scene and subject it surveys : Thus graced , the man asserts a poet's name , And the world cheerfully ...
... eye like his to catch the distant goal ; Or , ere the wheels of verse begin to roll , Like his to shed illuminating rays On every scene and subject it surveys : Thus graced , the man asserts a poet's name , And the world cheerfully ...
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... eye - ball to be seen . Still I insist , though music heretofore Has charm'd me much , ( not e'en Occiduus more ) Love , joy , and peace , make harmony more meet For sabbath evenings , and perhaps as sweet . Will not the sickliest sheep ...
... eye - ball to be seen . Still I insist , though music heretofore Has charm'd me much , ( not e'en Occiduus more ) Love , joy , and peace , make harmony more meet For sabbath evenings , and perhaps as sweet . Will not the sickliest sheep ...
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... eyes , Folly and Innocence are so alike , The difference , though essential , fails to strike . Yet Folly ever has a vacant stare , A simpering countenance , and a trifling air ; But Innocence , sedate , serene , erect , Delights us ...
... eyes , Folly and Innocence are so alike , The difference , though essential , fails to strike . Yet Folly ever has a vacant stare , A simpering countenance , and a trifling air ; But Innocence , sedate , serene , erect , Delights us ...
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