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Page 177
... heart - confoling joys And harmless pleasures in the throng'd abode Of multitudes unknown , hail rural life ! Addrefs himself who will to the purfuit Of honors or emolument or fame , I shall not add myself to fuch a chace , Thwart his ...
... heart - confoling joys And harmless pleasures in the throng'd abode Of multitudes unknown , hail rural life ! Addrefs himself who will to the purfuit Of honors or emolument or fame , I shall not add myself to fuch a chace , Thwart his ...
Page 304
... heart , There waiter Dick with Bacchanalian lays Shall win his heart and have his drunken praise , His counsellor and bofom - friend shall prove , And fome street - pacing harlot his first love . And Schools , unless discipline where ...
... heart , There waiter Dick with Bacchanalian lays Shall win his heart and have his drunken praise , His counsellor and bofom - friend shall prove , And fome street - pacing harlot his first love . And Schools , unless discipline where ...
Page 322
... heart and his ! Th ' indented stick that loses day by day Notch after notch , ' till all are smooth'd away , Bears witness long ' ere his difmiffion come , With what intense defire he wants his home . But though the joys he hopes ...
... heart and his ! Th ' indented stick that loses day by day Notch after notch , ' till all are smooth'd away , Bears witness long ' ere his difmiffion come , With what intense defire he wants his home . But though the joys he hopes ...
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