The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... minds , who have obtained a sudden accession of fortune , he seems to have thought that his store was inex- haustible ; and the consequence was , that he speedily dissipated it , and became a bankrupt , by living in a style which his ...
... minds , who have obtained a sudden accession of fortune , he seems to have thought that his store was inex- haustible ; and the consequence was , that he speedily dissipated it , and became a bankrupt , by living in a style which his ...
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... mind for ever on the stretch , and which cannot be sus- pended without producing the double evil of wounded feelings and pecuniary loss . In one point the player has manifestly the advantage : among his auditors he has the chance of ...
... mind for ever on the stretch , and which cannot be sus- pended without producing the double evil of wounded feelings and pecuniary loss . In one point the player has manifestly the advantage : among his auditors he has the chance of ...
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... mind and recover the health of his friend . Though his kindness doubtless alleviated the suffer- ings of disease , it failed to accomplish its principal object . After having lingered for some months , Cunningham died on the eighteenth ...
... mind and recover the health of his friend . Though his kindness doubtless alleviated the suffer- ings of disease , it failed to accomplish its principal object . After having lingered for some months , Cunningham died on the eighteenth ...
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... mind ; And Science , in the maze of light , Is impotent and blind . What are those wild , those wandering fires That o'er the moorland ran ? — Vapours . How like the -- vague desires That cheat the heart of man ! But there's a friendly ...
... mind ; And Science , in the maze of light , Is impotent and blind . What are those wild , those wandering fires That o'er the moorland ran ? — Vapours . How like the -- vague desires That cheat the heart of man ! But there's a friendly ...
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... mind . Sleep and her sister Silence reign ; They lock the shepherd's fold : But hark - I hear a lamb complain , ' Tis lost upon the world ! To'savage herds , that hunt for prey , An unresisting prize ! For having trod a devious way ...
... mind . Sleep and her sister Silence reign ; They lock the shepherd's fold : But hark - I hear a lamb complain , ' Tis lost upon the world ! To'savage herds , that hunt for prey , An unresisting prize ! For having trod a devious way ...
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