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... mind of man from painful and unavoidable anxieties , inspire it with stable peace and solid hope , and furnish those motives and prospects , which , in the present state of things , are absolutely necessary to produce a conduct worthy ...
... mind of man from painful and unavoidable anxieties , inspire it with stable peace and solid hope , and furnish those motives and prospects , which , in the present state of things , are absolutely necessary to produce a conduct worthy ...
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... mind well - lodged , and masculine of course . Hence Liberty , sweet Liberty inspires And keeps alive his fierce but noble fires . Patient of constitutional control , He bears it with meek manliness of soul ; But , if Authority grow ...
... mind well - lodged , and masculine of course . Hence Liberty , sweet Liberty inspires And keeps alive his fierce but noble fires . Patient of constitutional control , He bears it with meek manliness of soul ; But , if Authority grow ...
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... mind attains , beneath her happy reign , The growth that nature meant she should attain , The varied fields of science , ever new , Opening and wider opening on her view , She ventures onward with a prosperous force , While no TABLE TALK .
... mind attains , beneath her happy reign , The growth that nature meant she should attain , The varied fields of science , ever new , Opening and wider opening on her view , She ventures onward with a prosperous force , While no TABLE TALK .
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... Mind , that slumbers sweetly in her snares , To stoop to Tyranny's usurp'd command , And bend her polish'd neck beneath his hand , ( A dire effect , by one of Nature's laws , Unchangeably connected with its cause ; ) But Providence ...
... Mind , that slumbers sweetly in her snares , To stoop to Tyranny's usurp'd command , And bend her polish'd neck beneath his hand , ( A dire effect , by one of Nature's laws , Unchangeably connected with its cause ; ) But Providence ...
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... mind , that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy ...
... mind , that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy ...
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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