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... tongue , Most confident when palpably most wrong ; If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the Table Talk of clubs up - stairs , To which the unwash'd artificer repairs , To indulge his ...
... tongue , Most confident when palpably most wrong ; If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the Table Talk of clubs up - stairs , To which the unwash'd artificer repairs , To indulge his ...
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... tongue , I hear as mute as if a siren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains ; That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . [ elude B. The cause ...
... tongue , I hear as mute as if a siren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains ; That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . [ elude B. The cause ...
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... tongue inquires , how , where , or when , Though conscience will have twinges now and then ; When profanation of the sacred cause , In all its parts , times , ministry , and laws , Bespeaks a land , once Christian , fallen and lost In ...
... tongue inquires , how , where , or when , Though conscience will have twinges now and then ; When profanation of the sacred cause , In all its parts , times , ministry , and laws , Bespeaks a land , once Christian , fallen and lost In ...
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... tongue , That He , who died below , and reigns above , Inspires the song , and that his name is Love . For , after all , if merely to beguile , By flowing numbers and a flowery style , The tædium that the lazy rich endure , Which now ...
... tongue , That He , who died below , and reigns above , Inspires the song , and that his name is Love . For , after all , if merely to beguile , By flowing numbers and a flowery style , The tædium that the lazy rich endure , Which now ...
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... tongue . Ye ladies ! ( for indifferent in your cause , I should deserve to forfeit all applause ) Whatever shocks , or gives the least offence To virtue , delicacy , truth , or sense , ( Try the criterion , ' tis a faithful guide ) Nor ...
... tongue . Ye ladies ! ( for indifferent in your cause , I should deserve to forfeit all applause ) Whatever shocks , or gives the least offence To virtue , delicacy , truth , or sense , ( Try the criterion , ' tis a faithful guide ) Nor ...
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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