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... worth , with all its gold and glittering store , Just what the toy will sell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom used , how little understood ! To pour in Virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep Vice ...
... worth , with all its gold and glittering store , Just what the toy will sell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom used , how little understood ! To pour in Virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep Vice ...
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... worth of his three kingdoms I defy , To lure me to the baseness of a lie : And , of all lies ( be that one poet's boast ) , The lie that flatters I abhor the most . Those arts be theirs , who hate his gentle reign ; But he that loves ...
... worth of his three kingdoms I defy , To lure me to the baseness of a lie : And , of all lies ( be that one poet's boast ) , The lie that flatters I abhor the most . Those arts be theirs , who hate his gentle reign ; But he that loves ...
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... worth the search , may yet Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the year ...
... worth the search , may yet Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the year ...
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... worth untold ; Cheap though blood - bought , and thrown away when sold ; May no foes ravish thee , and no false friend Betray thee , while professing to defend ! Prize it , ye ministers , ye monarchs , spare ; Ye patriots guard it with ...
... worth untold ; Cheap though blood - bought , and thrown away when sold ; May no foes ravish thee , and no false friend Betray thee , while professing to defend ! Prize it , ye ministers , ye monarchs , spare ; Ye patriots guard it with ...
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... worth ; Courage , ungraced by these , affronts the skies , Is but the fire without the sacrifice . The stream , that feeds the wellspring of the heart , Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than Virtue quickens , with a warmth ...
... worth ; Courage , ungraced by these , affronts the skies , Is but the fire without the sacrifice . The stream , that feeds the wellspring of the heart , Not more invigorates life's noblest part , Than Virtue quickens , with a warmth ...
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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