Various Pieces in Verse and Prose: Many of which Were Never Before Published, Том 1J. Dodsley, 1791 |
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... mind ! But here I deviate from my plan , For Pruffia's king is more than man ! Inferior beings fuit my rhime , My scheme , my genius , and my time ; Men , birds , and beafts , with now and then A pagan god , to grace my pen . A veffel ...
... mind ! But here I deviate from my plan , For Pruffia's king is more than man ! Inferior beings fuit my rhime , My scheme , my genius , and my time ; Men , birds , and beafts , with now and then A pagan god , to grace my pen . A veffel ...
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... which on her back she bore . The eye had loft its visual art , The heavy ear refus'd its part ; The teeth perform'd their office ill , And every member fail'd her will . C 4 But But no defects in mind appear , Her intellects are FABLE V.
... which on her back she bore . The eye had loft its visual art , The heavy ear refus'd its part ; The teeth perform'd their office ill , And every member fail'd her will . C 4 But But no defects in mind appear , Her intellects are FABLE V.
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Many of which Were Never Before Published Nathaniel Cotton. But no defects in mind appear , Her intellects are strong and clear . Thus when his glorious courfe is run , How brightly shines the setting fun ! The news thro ' all the garden ...
Many of which Were Never Before Published Nathaniel Cotton. But no defects in mind appear , Her intellects are strong and clear . Thus when his glorious courfe is run , How brightly shines the setting fun ! The news thro ' all the garden ...
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... mind →→→→ Is happiness to hills confin'd ? Don't famine oft erect her throne Upon the rugged mountain's ftone ? And don't the lower paftures fail , When fnows descending choke the vale ? Or who so hardy to declare Disease and death ...
... mind →→→→ Is happiness to hills confin'd ? Don't famine oft erect her throne Upon the rugged mountain's ftone ? And don't the lower paftures fail , When fnows descending choke the vale ? Or who so hardy to declare Disease and death ...
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... would ftagnate at its fource , And Man , and Horfe decline the course . Then bid young Ralpho never mind it , But take the world as he fhall find it . D 3 TALES . TALE S. The LAMB and the PIG . ONSULT the FABLE VI . 37 TALES, &c 38-51.
... would ftagnate at its fource , And Man , and Horfe decline the course . Then bid young Ralpho never mind it , But take the world as he fhall find it . D 3 TALES . TALE S. The LAMB and the PIG . ONSULT the FABLE VI . 37 TALES, &c 38-51.
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