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... Nature here With stern severity deals out the year . Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's drooping flowers ; Unwelcome vapours quench autumnal beams , Ungenial blasts attending curl the streams : The ...
... Nature here With stern severity deals out the year . Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's drooping flowers ; Unwelcome vapours quench autumnal beams , Ungenial blasts attending curl the streams : The ...
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... Nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant over all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with gracious aid ; Bids equity throughout his works prevail , And weighs the nations in an even scale ; He can ...
... Nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant over all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with gracious aid ; Bids equity throughout his works prevail , And weighs the nations in an even scale ; He can ...
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... Nature's laws , Unchangeably connected with its cause ; ) But Providence himself will intervene , To throw his dark displeasure o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , ...
... Nature's laws , Unchangeably connected with its cause ; ) But Providence himself will intervene , To throw his dark displeasure o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , ...
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... nature lengths unknown before , To give a Milton birth , ask'd ages more . Thus Genius rose and set at order'd times , And shot a dayspring into distant climes , Ennobling every region that he chose ; He sunk in Greece , in Italy he ...
... nature lengths unknown before , To give a Milton birth , ask'd ages more . Thus Genius rose and set at order'd times , And shot a dayspring into distant climes , Ennobling every region that he chose ; He sunk in Greece , in Italy he ...
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... Nature imparting his satiric gift , Her serious mirth , to Arbuthnot and Swift , With droll sobriety they raised a smile At Folly's cast , themselves unmoved the while . That constellation set , the world in vain Must hope to look upon ...
... Nature imparting his satiric gift , Her serious mirth , to Arbuthnot and Swift , With droll sobriety they raised a smile At Folly's cast , themselves unmoved the while . That constellation set , the world in vain Must hope to look upon ...
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Aspasio beauty beneath bids bless'd boast breath call'd cause charms dæmons death delight design'd distant divine docet dread dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fear feel fire flowers folly form'd frown fruit give glory grace hand happy hast hear heart Heaven honour hope hour human John Gilpin labour land learn'd light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse Nature Nature's Nebaioth never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure plebeian poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste teach telescopic eye thee theme thine thought toil tongue trembling trifler truth Twas VINCENT BOURNE Virg virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wonder worth youth