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Page 78
... grace , escape . There we grow early grey , but never wise . There form connexions , and acquire no friend . Solicit pleasure hopeless of fuccefs ; Waste youth in occupations only fit For fecond childhood , and devote old age To fports ...
... grace , escape . There we grow early grey , but never wise . There form connexions , and acquire no friend . Solicit pleasure hopeless of fuccefs ; Waste youth in occupations only fit For fecond childhood , and devote old age To fports ...
Page 131
... grace , th ' lovelieft it could show , A mine to fatisfy the enormous cost . Drain'd to the laft poor item of his wealth He fighs , departs , and leaves the accomplished plan That he has touch'd , retouch'd , many a long day Labor'd ...
... grace , th ' lovelieft it could show , A mine to fatisfy the enormous cost . Drain'd to the laft poor item of his wealth He fighs , departs , and leaves the accomplished plan That he has touch'd , retouch'd , many a long day Labor'd ...
Page 216
... grace thy profe Till it out - mantle all the pride of verse.— Ah , tinkling cymbal and high - founding brass Smitten in vain ! fuch mufis cannot charm Th ' eclipfe that intercepts truth's heav'nly beam , And chills and darkens a wide ...
... grace thy profe Till it out - mantle all the pride of verse.— Ah , tinkling cymbal and high - founding brass Smitten in vain ! fuch mufis cannot charm Th ' eclipfe that intercepts truth's heav'nly beam , And chills and darkens a wide ...
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