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From me they need not;-nobler pens than mine Have prais'd the nervous thought,
th'harmonious line, Where soothing Hope the sadden'd heart beguiles, Or Mem'ry
cheers it with remember'd smiles. 110 But here is one, who dares attempt, ...
From me they need not;-nobler pens than mine Have prais'd the nervous thought,
th'harmonious line, Where soothing Hope the sadden'd heart beguiles, Or Mem'ry
cheers it with remember'd smiles. 110 But here is one, who dares attempt, ...
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Pleasures of Hope. For manly courage mourn, untimely lost, Still often lavish'd,
when 'tis needed most. P. 82. For talents mourm, untimely lost, When best
employed, and wanted most. Introduction to Marmion. Perchance it trickle to a
stranger's ...
Pleasures of Hope. For manly courage mourn, untimely lost, Still often lavish'd,
when 'tis needed most. P. 82. For talents mourm, untimely lost, When best
employed, and wanted most. Introduction to Marmion. Perchance it trickle to a
stranger's ...
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This will at least afford “the sons of men," The hope, in rhyme, to meet thee ne'er
again; 400 But should this hope, (as chance it will) prove vain, And thou renew
once more the votive strain, NOTES. And then, to set herself free, “She scrapes
the ...
This will at least afford “the sons of men," The hope, in rhyme, to meet thee ne'er
again; 400 But should this hope, (as chance it will) prove vain, And thou renew
once more the votive strain, NOTES. And then, to set herself free, “She scrapes
the ...
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... which denies thee praise, Impedes thy progress and thy hope delays; 420
Which bids thee even friendly aid reject, That might, perchance, add influence to
a sect, And, too desirous to reform the nation, Make Quakers of the rising
generation.
... which denies thee praise, Impedes thy progress and thy hope delays; 420
Which bids thee even friendly aid reject, That might, perchance, add influence to
a sect, And, too desirous to reform the nation, Make Quakers of the rising
generation.
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But, while I thus diffuse as pure a law As grave M–th—s, or as light D-b–o, I
cannot, dare not hope a voice like mine, 1025 Tho' ventured boldly for the tuneful
Nine, Should chance be heard amid the clam'rous peal, That deafens Pindus
with ...
But, while I thus diffuse as pure a law As grave M–th—s, or as light D-b–o, I
cannot, dare not hope a voice like mine, 1025 Tho' ventured boldly for the tuneful
Nine, Should chance be heard amid the clam'rous peal, That deafens Pindus
with ...
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Page 91 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from brake to bush ; But she, God love her ! feared to brush The dust from off its wings.
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Page 57 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
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Page 91 - ORIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain And an unthinking grief ! The tenderest mood Of that Man's mind — what can it be ? what food Fed his first hopes? what knowledge could he gain? 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.