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... Seek and obtain , and often find unfought ? Tell me and I will tell thee what is truth . O friendly to the best pursuits of man , Friendly to thought , to virtue , and to peace , Domestic life in rural leisure paffed ! Few know thy ...
... Seek and obtain , and often find unfought ? Tell me and I will tell thee what is truth . O friendly to the best pursuits of man , Friendly to thought , to virtue , and to peace , Domestic life in rural leisure paffed ! Few know thy ...
Side 92
... , Would find them hideous nurseries of the spleen , And crowd the roads , impatient for the town ! They love the country , and none else , who seek For their own fake its filence and its fhade . 92 BOOK III . THE TASK .
... , Would find them hideous nurseries of the spleen , And crowd the roads , impatient for the town ! They love the country , and none else , who seek For their own fake its filence and its fhade . 92 BOOK III . THE TASK .
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... to account , From whom are all our bleffings ; bufinefs finds E'en here : while fedulous I seek to improve , * See the note at the end of this volume . At least neglect not , or leave unemployed , The 94 BOOK 1II . THE TASK .
... to account , From whom are all our bleffings ; bufinefs finds E'en here : while fedulous I seek to improve , * See the note at the end of this volume . At least neglect not , or leave unemployed , The 94 BOOK 1II . THE TASK .
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... seek the guiltless joys , that I describe , Allured by my report : but sure no less , That felf - condemned they muft neglect the prize , And what they will not taste must yet approve . What we admire we praise ; and when we praise ...
... seek the guiltless joys , that I describe , Allured by my report : but sure no less , That felf - condemned they muft neglect the prize , And what they will not taste must yet approve . What we admire we praise ; and when we praise ...
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... fure to be defpifed . But all is in his hand , whose praise I seek . In vain the poet fings , and the world hears , If he regard not , though divine the theme . ' Tis not in artful measures , in the chime 242 BOOK VI . THE TASK .
... fure to be defpifed . But all is in his hand , whose praise I seek . In vain the poet fings , and the world hears , If he regard not , though divine the theme . ' Tis not in artful measures , in the chime 242 BOOK VI . THE TASK .
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