Poems, Volume 1Pr. por C. and J. Rivington, 1825 - 480 pages |
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... waste . Think yourself station'd on a towering rock , To see a people scatter'd like a flock , Some royal mastiff panting at their heels , With all the savage thirst a tiger feels ; Then view him self - proclaim'd in a gazette , Chief ...
... waste . Think yourself station'd on a towering rock , To see a people scatter'd like a flock , Some royal mastiff panting at their heels , With all the savage thirst a tiger feels ; Then view him self - proclaim'd in a gazette , Chief ...
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... waste ; If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ; However humble and confined the sphere , Happy the state , that has not these to fear . A. Thus men , whose thoughts contemplative have dwelt ...
... waste ; If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ; However humble and confined the sphere , Happy the state , that has not these to fear . A. Thus men , whose thoughts contemplative have dwelt ...
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... waste it at the bidding of his hand . He gives the word , and Mutiny soon roars In all her gates , and shakes her distant shores ; The standards of all nations are unfurl'd ; She has one foe , and that one foe the world : And , if he ...
... waste it at the bidding of his hand . He gives the word , and Mutiny soon roars In all her gates , and shakes her distant shores ; The standards of all nations are unfurl'd ; She has one foe , and that one foe the world : And , if he ...
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... ? Has some sickly eastern waste Sent , us a wind to parch us at a blast ? Can British Paradise no scenes afford To please her sated and indifferent lord ? Are sweet philosophy's enjoyments run Quite to the lees ? THE PROGRESS OF ERROUR .
... ? Has some sickly eastern waste Sent , us a wind to parch us at a blast ? Can British Paradise no scenes afford To please her sated and indifferent lord ? Are sweet philosophy's enjoyments run Quite to the lees ? THE PROGRESS OF ERROUR .
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... waste and void ; For them the states to which they went , destroy'd ; A cloud to measure out their march by day , By night a fire to cheer the gloomy way ; That moving signal summoning , when best , Their host to move , and when it stay ...
... waste and void ; For them the states to which they went , destroy'd ; A cloud to measure out their march by day , By night a fire to cheer the gloomy way ; That moving signal summoning , when best , Their host to move , and when it stay ...
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