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... race . From the recesses of this wild domain .. .278 .286 Go , artless records of a life obscure .... 17 Hear , princely youth , th ' unletter'd rustic muse . 290 How blest those olive plants that grew .309 Helen , by every sympathy ...
... race . From the recesses of this wild domain .. .278 .286 Go , artless records of a life obscure .... 17 Hear , princely youth , th ' unletter'd rustic muse . 290 How blest those olive plants that grew .309 Helen , by every sympathy ...
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... race succeeding the Fin- galian Heroes , and the mechanical and frigid people who replace the Highlanders , driven to emigrate . Contrast betwixt that Life in which the frame is enervated by Sloth and Luxury , the mind un- binged by ...
... race succeeding the Fin- galian Heroes , and the mechanical and frigid people who replace the Highlanders , driven to emigrate . Contrast betwixt that Life in which the frame is enervated by Sloth and Luxury , the mind un- binged by ...
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... race , Appear'd in thy departed hero's place : Tell in what secret cave , or whispering shade , Thy harp of sadly - pleasing sound is laid , ( Whose plaintive tones , so sweet to OSSIAN's ear , The child of sorrow still delights to hear ...
... race , Appear'd in thy departed hero's place : Tell in what secret cave , or whispering shade , Thy harp of sadly - pleasing sound is laid , ( Whose plaintive tones , so sweet to OSSIAN's ear , The child of sorrow still delights to hear ...
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... race ? Uncouth and wild these manners may appear , And even these virtues savage and austere , To those vain tribes , who indolently gay , Know but to dream and trifle life away ; Who on soft luxury's velvet lap reclin'd , Shrink from ...
... race ? Uncouth and wild these manners may appear , And even these virtues savage and austere , To those vain tribes , who indolently gay , Know but to dream and trifle life away ; Who on soft luxury's velvet lap reclin'd , Shrink from ...
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... race ; Renown'd even in those old heroic times , That live in OSSIAN'S Songs , and RUNIC rhymes ; When ardent Valour call'd his children forth , And Glory lighten'd through the beaming North : Whose hardy sons that twilight age adorn ...
... race ; Renown'd even in those old heroic times , That live in OSSIAN'S Songs , and RUNIC rhymes ; When ardent Valour call'd his children forth , And Glory lighten'd through the beaming North : Whose hardy sons that twilight age adorn ...
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