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... live exempted ( while I live Guiltless of pampered appetite obfcene ) From pangs arthritic , that infeft the toe Of libertine excefs . The sOFA fuits The gouty limb , ' tis true ; but gouty limb , Though on a sOFA , may I never feel ...
... live exempted ( while I live Guiltless of pampered appetite obfcene ) From pangs arthritic , that infeft the toe Of libertine excefs . The sOFA fuits The gouty limb , ' tis true ; but gouty limb , Though on a sOFA , may I never feel ...
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... lives but while she moves . Its own revolvency upholds the world . Winds from all quarters agitate the air , And fit the limpid element for ufe , Elfe noxious ; oceans , rivers , lakes , and ftreams , All feel the freshening impulfe ...
... lives but while she moves . Its own revolvency upholds the world . Winds from all quarters agitate the air , And fit the limpid element for ufe , Elfe noxious ; oceans , rivers , lakes , and ftreams , All feel the freshening impulfe ...
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... live . Then wherefore not renounce them ? No - the dread , The flavish dread of folitude , that breeds Reflection and remorse , the fear of shame , And their inveterate habits , all forbid . Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long ...
... live . Then wherefore not renounce them ? No - the dread , The flavish dread of folitude , that breeds Reflection and remorse , the fear of shame , And their inveterate habits , all forbid . Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long ...
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... live an atheift life : involves the heaven In tempefts : quits his grasp upon the winds , And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin , And putrify the breath of blooming health . He calls for famine ...
... live an atheift life : involves the heaven In tempefts : quits his grasp upon the winds , And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin , And putrify the breath of blooming health . He calls for famine ...
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... lives , and that knows how to live , Would fail to exhibit at the public shows A form as fplendid as the proudest there , Though appetite raise outcries at the cost ? A man of the town dines late , but foon enough , With reasonable ...
... lives , and that knows how to live , Would fail to exhibit at the public shows A form as fplendid as the proudest there , Though appetite raise outcries at the cost ? A man of the town dines late , but foon enough , With reasonable ...
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Page 36 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 35 - My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
Page 214 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us ! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 206 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 37 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 217 - Come then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! it was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood. Thy saints proclaim thee king ; and in their hearts Thy title is engraven with a pen Dipp'd in the fountain of eternal love.
Page 118 - Me oft has fancy, ludicrous and wild, Soothed with a waking dream of houses, towers, Trees, churches, and strange visages expressed In the red cinders, while with poring eye I gazed, myself creating what I saw.
Page 185 - The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Page 329 - And swing his rump around. His frisking was at evening hours, For then he lost his fear, But most before approaching showers Or when a storm drew near. Eight years and five round-rolling moons He thus saw steal away, Dozing out all his idle noons, And every night at play. I kept him for his humour's sake, For he would oft beguile My heart of thoughts that made it ache, And force me to a smile.
Page 13 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...