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Specimens of the British poets - Page 239
by British poets - 1809
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...ease ! Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects brightening to the...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep; No surly porter stands, in guilty state, To...resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects bright'ning to the last, His heav'n commences ere the world be past. Sweet was the sound, when oft...
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Poems Divine and Moral: Many of Them Now First Published

John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...learns to fly ! For him no wretches born to work and weep Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; And all his prospects bright'ning to the...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to, fly ! For him no wretches, born to, work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep. ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate : But on he moves...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore...befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way ; ; And, all his prospects brightening to...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore...befriending virtue's friend* Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptation try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore...latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Bends to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While resigna ion gently slopes the way; And, all his...
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The English Reading Book in Verse: Adapted to Domestic and to School Education

William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous duep ; No surly porter stands in haughty state To spurn imploring famine from the gate ; But...resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. ODE TO EVENING. Collins. IF aught...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous ublished by William C. Hall bright'ning to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past ! Sweet was the sound, when, oft...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And. since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore...latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend j Sinxs to the grave with unperceiv'd decay While resignation gently slopes the way ; And, all his...
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