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... bear my brow ; To drink the spirit of the Golden day ; And triumph in existence ; and could't know No motive but my blifs ; and haft ordain'd A rife in bleffing ! With the Patriarch's joy , Thy call I follow to the land unknown . I ...
... bear my brow ; To drink the spirit of the Golden day ; And triumph in existence ; and could't know No motive but my blifs ; and haft ordain'd A rife in bleffing ! With the Patriarch's joy , Thy call I follow to the land unknown . I ...
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... bear ; Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen , And wafte its fweetnefs on the defert air . Some village - Hampden , that with dauntless breaft The little tyrant of his fields withstood , Some mute inglorious Milton here may reft ...
... bear ; Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen , And wafte its fweetnefs on the defert air . Some village - Hampden , that with dauntless breaft The little tyrant of his fields withstood , Some mute inglorious Milton here may reft ...
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... bear His whole difpleafure ? In no common form Death then appears , but starting into fize Enormous measures with gigantic ftride Th`aftonish'd Earth , and from his looks throws Unutterable horror and difmay . [ round All nature lends ...
... bear His whole difpleafure ? In no common form Death then appears , but starting into fize Enormous measures with gigantic ftride Th`aftonish'd Earth , and from his looks throws Unutterable horror and difmay . [ round All nature lends ...
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... bear : There , if ambition , peftilent and pale , If cold felf - intereft , with her chilling gale , Or luxury fhould taint the vernal glow ; Should blast th ' unfolding blossoms ere they blow ; If mimick , hues by art or fashion spread ...
... bear : There , if ambition , peftilent and pale , If cold felf - intereft , with her chilling gale , Or luxury fhould taint the vernal glow ; Should blast th ' unfolding blossoms ere they blow ; If mimick , hues by art or fashion spread ...
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... bear ! What hourly nonefense haunts her ear ! Where'er her eyes difpenfe their charms , Impertinence around her ... bears , and mighty tygers bend , And ftrive who mott fhall condescend . He ftrait affumes a folemn grace , Collects his ...
... bear ! What hourly nonefense haunts her ear ! Where'er her eyes difpenfe their charms , Impertinence around her ... bears , and mighty tygers bend , And ftrive who mott fhall condescend . He ftrait affumes a folemn grace , Collects his ...
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