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... virtues , could alone inspire- Witness a joy that thou hast doubled long . Thou know'st my praise of Nature most sincere , And that my raptures are not conjured up To serve occasions of poetic pomp , But genuine , and art partner of ...
... virtues , could alone inspire- Witness a joy that thou hast doubled long . Thou know'st my praise of Nature most sincere , And that my raptures are not conjured up To serve occasions of poetic pomp , But genuine , and art partner of ...
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... though slow to learn The manners and the arts of civil life . His wants , indeed , are many ; but supply Is obvious ; placed within the easy reach Of temperate wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives 28 THE TASK .
... though slow to learn The manners and the arts of civil life . His wants , indeed , are many ; but supply Is obvious ; placed within the easy reach Of temperate wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives 28 THE TASK .
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... virtue ; and inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners , victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or inspiration teaches ; and enclosed In ...
... virtue ; and inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners , victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or inspiration teaches ; and enclosed In ...
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... virtue , in the mild And genial soil of cultivated life Thrive most , and may perhaps thrive only there , Yet not in cities oft . In proud and gay And gain - devoted cities , thither flow , As to a common and most noisome sewer , The ...
... virtue , in the mild And genial soil of cultivated life Thrive most , and may perhaps thrive only there , Yet not in cities oft . In proud and gay And gain - devoted cities , thither flow , As to a common and most noisome sewer , The ...
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... virtue , gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all , should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore , ye who , borne about In chariots and sedans , know no ...
... virtue , gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all , should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore , ye who , borne about In chariots and sedans , know no ...
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