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... thou haft doubled long . Thou know'ft my praise of nature most fincere , And that my raptures are not conjur❜d up To ferve occafions of poetic pomp , But genuine , and art partner of them all . How oft upon yon eminence our pace Has ...
... thou haft doubled long . Thou know'ft my praise of nature most fincere , And that my raptures are not conjur❜d up To ferve occafions of poetic pomp , But genuine , and art partner of them all . How oft upon yon eminence our pace Has ...
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... thou feeming fweet , Be ftill a pleasing object in my view , My vifit ftill , but never mine abode . Not distant far , a length of colonade Invites us . Monument of ancient taste , Now fcorn'd , but worthy of a better fate . Our fathers ...
... thou feeming fweet , Be ftill a pleasing object in my view , My vifit ftill , but never mine abode . Not distant far , a length of colonade Invites us . Monument of ancient taste , Now fcorn'd , but worthy of a better fate . Our fathers ...
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... thou haft found again Thy cocoas and bananas , palms and yams , And homeftall thatch'd with leaves . But haft thou found Their former charms ? And having feen our ftate , Our palaces , our ladies , and our pomp Of equipage , our gardens ...
... thou haft found again Thy cocoas and bananas , palms and yams , And homeftall thatch'd with leaves . But haft thou found Their former charms ? And having feen our ftate , Our palaces , our ladies , and our pomp Of equipage , our gardens ...
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... thou art fad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little when the paints thee thus . She tells me too , that duly ev ...
... thou art fad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little when the paints thee thus . She tells me too , that duly ev ...
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... Thou fool ! will thy discov'ry of the cause Sufpend th ' effect or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world , And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation lefs Than a ...
... Thou fool ! will thy discov'ry of the cause Sufpend th ' effect or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world , And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation lefs Than a ...
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