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... thou them back to me . It would swell this Life beyond its true Bounds , and my Defign , tỏ tell all his fine Sayings and excellent Extemporary Verfes , which are ftill remembred and repeated with great Applaufe and Satisfaction : For ...
... thou them back to me . It would swell this Life beyond its true Bounds , and my Defign , tỏ tell all his fine Sayings and excellent Extemporary Verfes , which are ftill remembred and repeated with great Applaufe and Satisfaction : For ...
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... But their own Winding - Sheet themselves prepare ; Fearing , perhaps , fome courfer Cloath might throw'd The Worms descended from their Noble Blood : € 2 And And shalt not thou ( that juftly may'st suspect ' The AUTHOR's Life . xi.
... But their own Winding - Sheet themselves prepare ; Fearing , perhaps , fome courfer Cloath might throw'd The Worms descended from their Noble Blood : € 2 And And shalt not thou ( that juftly may'st suspect ' The AUTHOR's Life . xi.
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... thou ( that juftly may'st suspect ' Far courfer Stuff , in fuch a dull Neglect Of all the Arts , and Dearth of Poetry ) Compofe before - hand thine own Elegy ? Who but thy felf is capable to write A Verfe , or , if they can , to fashion ...
... thou ( that juftly may'st suspect ' Far courfer Stuff , in fuch a dull Neglect Of all the Arts , and Dearth of Poetry ) Compofe before - hand thine own Elegy ? Who but thy felf is capable to write A Verfe , or , if they can , to fashion ...
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... thou art dead ? And Lyfis lives a loathed Life to lead ? My Thoughts alace ! were always fet on Thee , With Hope at laft thy long wish'd Look to fee , That • That my poor Mafe might do Thee Homage due xvi POEMS on the AUTHOR .
... thou art dead ? And Lyfis lives a loathed Life to lead ? My Thoughts alace ! were always fet on Thee , With Hope at laft thy long wish'd Look to fee , That • That my poor Mafe might do Thee Homage due xvi POEMS on the AUTHOR .
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... Thou hast born hence to Heav'n with Thee Thy Lyfis till fhall love Thy Memory , And make both Maes and Rhine thy Name refound , As far as Shepherds by their Banks are found . Ay me ! why have not I old Ayton's Vein ? Or great Alexis ...
... Thou hast born hence to Heav'n with Thee Thy Lyfis till fhall love Thy Memory , And make both Maes and Rhine thy Name refound , As far as Shepherds by their Banks are found . Ay me ! why have not I old Ayton's Vein ? Or great Alexis ...
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Page 26 - ... flowers ; To rocks, to springs, to rills, from leafy bowers Thou thy Creator's goodness dost declare, And what dear gifts on thee He did not spare, A stain to human sense in sin that lowers. What soul can be so sick which by thy songs...
Page 12 - My thoughts hold mortal strife; I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries Peace to my soul to bring Oft call that prince which here doth monarchize — But he, grim grinning King, Who caitiffs scorns, and doth the blest surpri.se, Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.
Page 169 - For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Page 22 - A treasury which bankrupt time devours, A knowledge than grave ignorance more blind, A vain delight our equals to command, A style of greatness...
Page 26 - Nor mov'd at glory's breath, Which shadow-like on wings of time doth glide ; So malice to disarm, And conquer hasty wrath, As to do good to those that work your harm : To hatch no base desires, Or gold or land to gain, Well...
Page 5 - I estranged live, Contented more with what your shades me give, Than if I had what Thetis doth embrace ; What snaky eye, grown jealous of my...
Page 9 - This Life, which seems so fair, Is like a bubble blown up in the air By sporting children's breath, Who chase it everywhere And strive who can most motion it bequeath. And though it...
Page 222 - He heth consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, feight in his imagination.
Page 8 - Most blest abid'st above the sphere of spheres; If heavenly laws, alas ! have not thee bound From looking to this globe that all upbears, If ruth and pity there above be found, O deign to lend a look unto those tears.