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Page iv
... happy : but he was not . He wondered ( as thousands in a similar situation still do ) that he should continue dissa- tisfied , with all the means apparently conducive to satisfaction within his reach : but in due time the cause of his ...
... happy : but he was not . He wondered ( as thousands in a similar situation still do ) that he should continue dissa- tisfied , with all the means apparently conducive to satisfaction within his reach : but in due time the cause of his ...
Page v
... happy deliverance , never forsook me . The desirable crisis , I trust , is now nearly ap- proaching . The dawn , the presage of returning day , is already arrived . He is again enabled to resume his pen , and some of the first fruits of ...
... happy deliverance , never forsook me . The desirable crisis , I trust , is now nearly ap- proaching . The dawn , the presage of returning day , is already arrived . He is again enabled to resume his pen , and some of the first fruits of ...
Page vii
... happy . We must lose the remembrance of what we once were , be- fore we can believe that a man is satisfied with himself , merely because he endeavours to appear So. A smile upon the face is often but a mask worn occasionally , and in ...
... happy . We must lose the remembrance of what we once were , be- fore we can believe that a man is satisfied with himself , merely because he endeavours to appear So. A smile upon the face is often but a mask worn occasionally , and in ...
Page xi
... happy Recovery 456 Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at Olney Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the Year 1787 The same for 1788 459 The same for 1789 The same for 1790 The same for 1792 The same for 1793 Epitaph on Mr ...
... happy Recovery 456 Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at Olney Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the Year 1787 The same for 1788 459 The same for 1789 The same for 1790 The same for 1792 The same for 1793 Epitaph on Mr ...
Page 5
... Happy the state , that has not these to fear . A. Thus men , whose thoughts contemplative have dwelt On situations , that they never felt , Start up sagacious , cover'd with the dust Of dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and ...
... Happy the state , that has not these to fear . A. Thus men , whose thoughts contemplative have dwelt On situations , that they never felt , Start up sagacious , cover'd with the dust Of dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and ...
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Aspasio beauty beneath bids bless'd boast breath call'd cause charms dæmons death delight design'd distant divine docet dread dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fear feel fire flowers folly form'd frown fruit give glory grace hand happy hast hear heart Heaven honour hope hour human John Gilpin labour land learn'd light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse Nature Nature's Nebaioth never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure plebeian poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste teach telescopic eye thee theme thine thought toil tongue trembling trifler truth Twas VINCENT BOURNE Virg virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wonder worth youth