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... hold her cards , But cannot play them , borrows a friend's hand To deal and fhuffle , to divide and fort Her mingled fuits and fequences ; and fits , Spectatrefs both and spectacle , a fad And filent cypher , while her proxy plays ...
... hold her cards , But cannot play them , borrows a friend's hand To deal and fhuffle , to divide and fort Her mingled fuits and fequences ; and fits , Spectatrefs both and spectacle , a fad And filent cypher , while her proxy plays ...
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... holds out to all , fhould most abound And leaft be threatened in the fields and groves ? Poffefs ye therefore , ye who , borne about In chariots and fedans , know no fatigue But that of idlenefs , and tafte no scenes But fuch as art ...
... holds out to all , fhould most abound And leaft be threatened in the fields and groves ? Poffefs ye therefore , ye who , borne about In chariots and fedans , know no fatigue But that of idlenefs , and tafte no scenes But fuch as art ...
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... hold thee faft , Freedom ! whom they that lose thee fo regret , That even a judgment , making way for thee , Seems in their eyes a mercy for thy fake ? Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flanie Kindled in heaven , that it burns ...
... hold thee faft , Freedom ! whom they that lose thee fo regret , That even a judgment , making way for thee , Seems in their eyes a mercy for thy fake ? Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flanie Kindled in heaven , that it burns ...
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... holds , Or make his house his grave : nor fo content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in her dry and dufty gulphs . What then ! -were they the wicked above all , And we the righteous , whofe faft anchored ...
... holds , Or make his house his grave : nor fo content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in her dry and dufty gulphs . What then ! -were they the wicked above all , And we the righteous , whofe faft anchored ...
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... hold them faft , And force them fit , till he has penciled off A faithful likeness of the forms he views ; Then to dispose his copies with such art , That each may find its moft propitious light , And shine by fituation , hardly lefs ...
... hold them faft , And force them fit , till he has penciled off A faithful likeness of the forms he views ; Then to dispose his copies with such art , That each may find its moft propitious light , And shine by fituation , hardly lefs ...
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Page 36 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 35 - My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
Page 214 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us ! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 206 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 37 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 217 - Come then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! it was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood. Thy saints proclaim thee king ; and in their hearts Thy title is engraven with a pen Dipp'd in the fountain of eternal love.
Page 118 - Me oft has fancy, ludicrous and wild, Soothed with a waking dream of houses, towers, Trees, churches, and strange visages expressed In the red cinders, while with poring eye I gazed, myself creating what I saw.
Page 185 - The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Page 329 - And swing his rump around. His frisking was at evening hours, For then he lost his fear, But most before approaching showers Or when a storm drew near. Eight years and five round-rolling moons He thus saw steal away, Dozing out all his idle noons, And every night at play. I kept him for his humour's sake, For he would oft beguile My heart of thoughts that made it ache, And force me to a smile.
Page 13 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...