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... wrong ; - If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the Table Talk of clubs up - stairs , To which the unwash'd artificer repairs , To indulge his genius after long fatigue , By diving ...
... wrong ; - If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the Table Talk of clubs up - stairs , To which the unwash'd artificer repairs , To indulge his genius after long fatigue , By diving ...
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... wrong the judgment and abuse , Worse than a poniard in the basest hand , It stabs at once the morals of a land . Ye writers of what none with safety reads , Footing it in the dance that fancy leads ; Ye novelists , who mar what ye would ...
... wrong the judgment and abuse , Worse than a poniard in the basest hand , It stabs at once the morals of a land . Ye writers of what none with safety reads , Footing it in the dance that fancy leads ; Ye novelists , who mar what ye would ...
Page 34
... wrong , With such fine words familiar to his tongue . Ye ladies ! ( for indifferent in your cause , I should deserve to forfeit all applause , ) Whatever shocks or gives the least offence , To virtue , delicacy , truth , or sense ...
... wrong , With such fine words familiar to his tongue . Ye ladies ! ( for indifferent in your cause , I should deserve to forfeit all applause , ) Whatever shocks or gives the least offence , To virtue , delicacy , truth , or sense ...
Page 35
... wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied , First put it out , then take it for a guide . Halting on crutches of unequal size , One leg by truth ...
... wrong with an ingenious skill ; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will ; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied , First put it out , then take it for a guide . Halting on crutches of unequal size , One leg by truth ...
Page 38
... wrong , Take it and perish ; but restrain your tongue ; Charge not , with light sufficient , and left free , Your wilful suicide on God's decree . O how unlike the complex works of man , Heaven's easy , artless , unencumber'd plan ! No ...
... wrong , Take it and perish ; but restrain your tongue ; Charge not , with light sufficient , and left free , Your wilful suicide on God's decree . O how unlike the complex works of man , Heaven's easy , artless , unencumber'd plan ! No ...
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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