Poems ...W. Scott, 1885 - 334 pages |
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Page 97
... declension , Becomes not weary of attention , But lives , when that exterior grace Which first inspired the flame decays . ' Tis gentle , delicate , and kind , To faults compassionate or blind , And will with sympathy endure Those evils ...
... declension , Becomes not weary of attention , But lives , when that exterior grace Which first inspired the flame decays . ' Tis gentle , delicate , and kind , To faults compassionate or blind , And will with sympathy endure Those evils ...
Page 184
... declension . The man who hails you Tom - or Jack , And proves by thumping on your back , His sense of your great merit , Is such a friend , that one had need Be very much his friend indeed , To pardon , or to bear it . Some friends make ...
... declension . The man who hails you Tom - or Jack , And proves by thumping on your back , His sense of your great merit , Is such a friend , that one had need Be very much his friend indeed , To pardon , or to bear it . Some friends make ...
Page 221
... declension thence , Slow , into such magnificent decay . Time was , when , settling on thy leaf , a fly Could shake thee to thy root - and time has been When tempests could not . At thy firmest age Thou hadst within thy bole solid ...
... declension thence , Slow , into such magnificent decay . Time was , when , settling on thy leaf , a fly Could shake thee to thy root - and time has been When tempests could not . At thy firmest age Thou hadst within thy bole solid ...
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On a Plant of VirginsBower | 6 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE | 7 |
To my Cousin | 31 |
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