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... o'er life's narrow stage ; Then leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask , with busy scorn , Was this the man ? I pity kings , whom Worship waits upon Obsequious from the cradle to the throne ; Before whose infant eyes the flatt ...
... o'er life's narrow stage ; Then leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask , with busy scorn , Was this the man ? I pity kings , whom Worship waits upon Obsequious from the cradle to the throne ; Before whose infant eyes the flatt ...
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... o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature in arms , her elements at strife , The storms that overset the joys of life , Are but his rods to scourge a guilty land ...
... o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature in arms , her elements at strife , The storms that overset the joys of life , Are but his rods to scourge a guilty land ...
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... O'er all his thoughts , and swell'd his easy sail : His books well trimm'd and in the gayest style , Like regimented coxcombs , rank and file , Adorn his intellects as well as shelves , And teach him notions splendid as themselves : The ...
... O'er all his thoughts , and swell'd his easy sail : His books well trimm'd and in the gayest style , Like regimented coxcombs , rank and file , Adorn his intellects as well as shelves , And teach him notions splendid as themselves : The ...
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... o'er his woes ; The dying , trembling at the awful close ; Where the betray'd , forsaken , and oppress'd , The thousands whom the world forbids to rest ; Where should they find ( those comforts at an end The scripture yields ) or hope ...
... o'er his woes ; The dying , trembling at the awful close ; Where the betray'd , forsaken , and oppress'd , The thousands whom the world forbids to rest ; Where should they find ( those comforts at an end The scripture yields ) or hope ...
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... o'er every country sown , With none on earth that thou canst call thine own ; Cry aloud , thou , that sittest in the dust , Cry to the proud , the cruel , and unjust ; Knock at the gates of nations , rouse their fears ; Say wrath is ...
... o'er every country sown , With none on earth that thou canst call thine own ; Cry aloud , thou , that sittest in the dust , Cry to the proud , the cruel , and unjust ; Knock at the gates of nations , rouse their fears ; Say wrath is ...
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