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Side 12
... folly , lust , Enervate and enfeeble , and needs must , And that a nation shamefully debased , Will be despised and trampled on at last , Unless sweet penitence her powers renew , Is truth , if history itself be true . There is a time ...
... folly , lust , Enervate and enfeeble , and needs must , And that a nation shamefully debased , Will be despised and trampled on at last , Unless sweet penitence her powers renew , Is truth , if history itself be true . There is a time ...
Side 19
... folly's cost , themselves unmoved the while . That constellation set , the world in vain Must hope to look upon their like again . 4. Are we then left -- B . Not wholly in the dark ; Wit now and then , struck smartly , shows a spark ...
... folly's cost , themselves unmoved the while . That constellation set , the world in vain Must hope to look upon their like again . 4. Are we then left -- B . Not wholly in the dark ; Wit now and then , struck smartly , shows a spark ...
Side 22
... folly , lust , employ the pen ; If acrimony , slander , and abuse , Give it a charge to blacken and traduce ; Though Butler's wit , Pope's numbers , Prior's ease , With all that fancy can invent to please , Adorn the polished periods as ...
... folly , lust , employ the pen ; If acrimony , slander , and abuse , Give it a charge to blacken and traduce ; Though Butler's wit , Pope's numbers , Prior's ease , With all that fancy can invent to please , Adorn the polished periods as ...
Side 25
... folly unsubdued behind , Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; " Tis he , the Nimrod of the neighbouring lairs , Save that his scent is less acute than theirs ; For persevering chase ...
... folly unsubdued behind , Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; " Tis he , the Nimrod of the neighbouring lairs , Save that his scent is less acute than theirs ; For persevering chase ...
Side 28
... Folly and innocence are so alike , The difference , though essential , fails to strike . Yet folly ever has a vacant stare , A simpering countenance , and a trifling air ; But innocence , sedate , serene , erect , Delights 28 PROGRESS ...
... Folly and innocence are so alike , The difference , though essential , fails to strike . Yet folly ever has a vacant stare , A simpering countenance , and a trifling air ; But innocence , sedate , serene , erect , Delights 28 PROGRESS ...
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