Poems, Volum 1S.A. Oddy, 1815 |
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... youth to ruminating age , Free in his will to choose or to refuse , Man may improve the crisis , or abuse ; Else , on the fatalists unrighteous plan , Say , to what bar amenable were man ? Divine Authority his Guide . With nought in ...
... youth to ruminating age , Free in his will to choose or to refuse , Man may improve the crisis , or abuse ; Else , on the fatalists unrighteous plan , Say , to what bar amenable were man ? Divine Authority his Guide . With nought in ...
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... youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in themselves , but dang'rous in th ' excess . Hark ! how it floats upon the dewy air ! O what a dying , dying close was there ! ' Tis ...
... youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in themselves , but dang'rous in th ' excess . Hark ! how it floats upon the dewy air ! O what a dying , dying close was there ! ' Tis ...
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... youth , and made him fresh and fair . Gorgonious sits , abdominous and wan , Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan : He snuff's far off th ' anticipated joy ; Turtle and ven❜son all his thoughts employ ; Prepares for meals as jockies ...
... youth , and made him fresh and fair . Gorgonious sits , abdominous and wan , Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan : He snuff's far off th ' anticipated joy ; Turtle and ven❜son all his thoughts employ ; Prepares for meals as jockies ...
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... youth , To purge and skim away the filth of vice , That , so refin'd , it might the more entice , Then pour it on the morals of thy son , To taint his heart , was worthy of thine own ! Now , while the poison all high life pervades ...
... youth , To purge and skim away the filth of vice , That , so refin'd , it might the more entice , Then pour it on the morals of thy son , To taint his heart , was worthy of thine own ! Now , while the poison all high life pervades ...
Side 59
William Cowper. Youth the Period most susceptible of Impressions . One sad epistle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind . * ' Tis granted , and no plainer truth appears , Our most important are our earliest ...
William Cowper. Youth the Period most susceptible of Impressions . One sad epistle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind . * ' Tis granted , and no plainer truth appears , Our most important are our earliest ...
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