The Poetical Works of William CowperBell and Daldy, 1825 - 611 pages |
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... felt no ease ; The slipp'ry seat betray'd the sliding part , That press'd it , and the feet hung dangling down , Anxious in vain to find the distant floor . These for the rich ; the rest , whom Fate bad plac'd In modest mediocrity ...
... felt no ease ; The slipp'ry seat betray'd the sliding part , That press'd it , and the feet hung dangling down , Anxious in vain to find the distant floor . These for the rich ; the rest , whom Fate bad plac'd In modest mediocrity ...
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... felt where Flora reigns ; The low'ring eye , the petulance , the frown , And sollen sadness , that o'ershade distort , And mar , the face of Beauty , when no cause Por such immeasurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the ...
... felt where Flora reigns ; The low'ring eye , the petulance , the frown , And sollen sadness , that o'ershade distort , And mar , the face of Beauty , when no cause Por such immeasurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the ...
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... felt , mankind may feel her mercy too . Sure there is need of social intercourse , Benevolence , and peace , and mutual aid , Between the nations in a world , that seems To toll the death - bell of it's own decease , And by the voice of ...
... felt , mankind may feel her mercy too . Sure there is need of social intercourse , Benevolence , and peace , and mutual aid , Between the nations in a world , that seems To toll the death - bell of it's own decease , And by the voice of ...
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... felt , there should be peace , And brethren in calamity should love . Alas for Sicily ! rude fragments now Lie scatter'd , where the shapely column stood . Her palaces are dust . In all her streets The voice of singing and the sprightly ...
... felt , there should be peace , And brethren in calamity should love . Alas for Sicily ! rude fragments now Lie scatter'd , where the shapely column stood . Her palaces are dust . In all her streets The voice of singing and the sprightly ...
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... felt ; And groves , if unharmonious , yet secure From clamour , and whose very silence charms ; To be preferr'd to smoke , to the eclipse , That metropolitan volcanoes make , Whose Stygian throats breathe darkness all day long ; And to ...
... felt ; And groves , if unharmonious , yet secure From clamour , and whose very silence charms ; To be preferr'd to smoke , to the eclipse , That metropolitan volcanoes make , Whose Stygian throats breathe darkness all day long ; And to ...
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