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... wish to per- fuade us they are happy , would be glad to change their conditions with a dog . But in defiance of all their efforts they continue to think , forebode , and trem- ble . This we know , for it has been our own ftate , and ...
... wish to per- fuade us they are happy , would be glad to change their conditions with a dog . But in defiance of all their efforts they continue to think , forebode , and trem- ble . This we know , for it has been our own ftate , and ...
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... wishes are , Would oft anticipate his glad return , And dream of transports the was not to know . She heard the doleful tidings of his death- And never fmiled again ! and now the roams The dreary wafte ; there spends the livelong day ...
... wishes are , Would oft anticipate his glad return , And dream of transports the was not to know . She heard the doleful tidings of his death- And never fmiled again ! and now the roams The dreary wafte ; there spends the livelong day ...
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... wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper foil ; Not rude and furly , and befet with thorns , And terrible to fight , as when she springs ( If ever she spring spontaneous ) in remote And barbarous climes ...
... wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper foil ; Not rude and furly , and befet with thorns , And terrible to fight , as when she springs ( If ever she spring spontaneous ) in remote And barbarous climes ...
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... wish , Birds warbling all the mufic . We can spare The splendour of your lamps ; they but eclipse Our fofter fatellite . Your fongs confound Our more harmonious notes : the thrush departs Scared , and the offended nightingale is mute ...
... wish , Birds warbling all the mufic . We can spare The splendour of your lamps ; they but eclipse Our fofter fatellite . Your fongs confound Our more harmonious notes : the thrush departs Scared , and the offended nightingale is mute ...
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... wish ; Prolific all , and harbingers of more . The crowded roots demand enlargement now , And transplantation in an ampler space . Indulged in what they wish , they foon supply Large foliage , overfhadowing golden flowers , Blown on the ...
... wish ; Prolific all , and harbingers of more . The crowded roots demand enlargement now , And transplantation in an ampler space . Indulged in what they wish , they foon supply Large foliage , overfhadowing golden flowers , Blown on the ...
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Page 296 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 297 - Wouldst softly speak and stroke my head and smile — Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here? I would not trust my heart : the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.
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 214 - To stroke his azure neck, or to receive The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. All creatures worship man, and all mankind One Lord, one Father.
Page 31 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
Page 214 - Behold the measure of the promise fill'd ; See Salem built, the labour of a God ! Bright as a sun the sacred city shines ; All kingdoms and all princes of the earth Flock to that light ; the glory of all lands Flows into her ; unbounded is her joy, . And endless her increase.
Page 206 - Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove, The chamber, or refectory, may die : A necessary act incurs no blame. Not so when, held within their proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime...
Page 309 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Page 296 - Dupe of to-morrow even from a child. Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learned at last submission to my lot; But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot.