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... force A 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 ...
... force A 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 ...
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... force , While no base fear impedes her in her course . Religion , richest favour of the skies , Stands most reveal'd before the freeman's eyes ; No shades of superstition blot the day , Liberty chases all that gloom away ; The soul ...
... force , While no base fear impedes her in her course . Religion , richest favour of the skies , Stands most reveal'd before the freeman's eyes ; No shades of superstition blot the day , Liberty chases all that gloom away ; The soul ...
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... force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of every feeling line . But ...
... force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her soft attention claim , A tender sympathy pervades the frame , She pours a sensibility divine Along the nerve of every feeling line . But ...
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... force ; That , like some cottage beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When Labour and when Dulness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's , stand , Beating alternately , in measured time ...
... force ; That , like some cottage beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When Labour and when Dulness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's , stand , Beating alternately , in measured time ...
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... force , Spendthrift alike of money and of wit , Always at speed , and never drawing bit , He struck the lyre in such a careless mood , And so disdain'd the rules he understood , The laurel seem'd to wait on his command ; He snatch'd it ...
... force , Spendthrift alike of money and of wit , Always at speed , and never drawing bit , He struck the lyre in such a careless mood , And so disdain'd the rules he understood , The laurel seem'd to wait on his command ; He snatch'd it ...
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beams beneath bids bless'd bliss blooming groves boast BODHAM breast call'd charms Cheapside CHISWICK courser dark dear deeds delight design'd divine dream e'en earth Edmonton errours eyes fair Fancy fear feel fire flowers folly fool form'd frown GEORGE ROMNEY Gilpin give glory God's grace hand happy hast hate heart Heaven heavenly hope hour JOHN GILPIN labour land learn'd light lust lyre mankind mind muse Nature never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps Pharisee pleasure poet poet's praise pride proud prove Rome rude sacred scene scorn scorn'd Scripture seem'd shine sight sithe skies smile song SONNET sorrow soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste tears telescopic eye tempest thee theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trifler true truth Twas verse VIRG virtue waste Whate'er wild WILLIAM COWPER wintry wisdom zeal