Elegant Extracts: Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing, and in the Conduct of Life |
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... pleasure is the chief pursuit , even if the sweets of it were not blended with utility . But if pleasure were the ultimate object of Poetry , there are fome who , in the rigour of auftere wifdom , would maintain that the precious days ...
... pleasure is the chief pursuit , even if the sweets of it were not blended with utility . But if pleasure were the ultimate object of Poetry , there are fome who , in the rigour of auftere wifdom , would maintain that the precious days ...
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... pleasure's tempting forms , Confociate with my fifter worms , And mingle with the dead . Ye midnight horrors ! awful gloom ! Ye filent regions of the tomb , My future peaceful bed ; Here fhall my weary eyes be clos'd , And ev'ry for row ...
... pleasure's tempting forms , Confociate with my fifter worms , And mingle with the dead . Ye midnight horrors ! awful gloom ! Ye filent regions of the tomb , My future peaceful bed ; Here fhall my weary eyes be clos'd , And ev'ry for row ...
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... pleasure's mad career , The mental monitor shall wake and weep ! For fay , than Coventry's propitious star , What brighter planet on your births arose ? Or gave of fortune's gifts an ampler fhare , In life to lavish , or by death to ...
... pleasure's mad career , The mental monitor shall wake and weep ! For fay , than Coventry's propitious star , What brighter planet on your births arose ? Or gave of fortune's gifts an ampler fhare , In life to lavish , or by death to ...
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... pleasure's flowr'y way . Much did the view divide his wavering mind : Now glow'd his breast with generous thirst of ... pleasures were made for thee . The That vice should triumph , virtue vice obey ; This Book I. SACRED 27 AND . MORAL ...
... pleasure's flowr'y way . Much did the view divide his wavering mind : Now glow'd his breast with generous thirst of ... pleasures were made for thee . The That vice should triumph , virtue vice obey ; This Book I. SACRED 27 AND . MORAL ...
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... Pleasures , not earn'd with toil , nor mix'd with woe ; Far from thy relt repining want fhall fly , Nor labour bathe ... pleasure bid fare- The night alternate , due to fweet repofe [ wel . In watches wafte ; in painful march , the day ...
... Pleasures , not earn'd with toil , nor mix'd with woe ; Far from thy relt repining want fhall fly , Nor labour bathe ... pleasure bid fare- The night alternate , due to fweet repofe [ wel . In watches wafte ; in painful march , the day ...
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