Select Beauties of Ancient English PoetryT. Cadell, 1787 - 198 pages |
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... The roughest storme a calme may foon allay . Thus with fucceeding turnes God tempereth all : That man may hope to rife , yet feare to fall . A chaunce A chaunce may winne that by mischaunce was loft , DIDACTIC AND MORAL PIECES .
... The roughest storme a calme may foon allay . Thus with fucceeding turnes God tempereth all : That man may hope to rife , yet feare to fall . A chaunce A chaunce may winne that by mischaunce was loft , DIDACTIC AND MORAL PIECES .
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... hope arises hence ? the devils doe The very fame : : they know and tremble too ; But facred Wifedome doth apply that good , Which fimple knowledge barely understood : Wifedome concludes , and in conclufion , proves That wherefoever God ...
... hope arises hence ? the devils doe The very fame : : they know and tremble too ; But facred Wifedome doth apply that good , Which fimple knowledge barely understood : Wifedome concludes , and in conclufion , proves That wherefoever God ...
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... hope for happines beneath ; Where each new day proclaims chance , change and death , And life itfelf's as flit as is the aire we breathe ? Purple Ifland , Cant . 7 , St. 2-7 : by Ph . Fletcher . Edit . 1633 . FAIT H. THE proudest pitch ...
... hope for happines beneath ; Where each new day proclaims chance , change and death , And life itfelf's as flit as is the aire we breathe ? Purple Ifland , Cant . 7 , St. 2-7 : by Ph . Fletcher . Edit . 1633 . FAIT H. THE proudest pitch ...
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... hope , thy bosome friend ? Doth fad Despaire deny these griefes an end ? Despaire's a whisp'ring rebell , that within thee , Bribes all thy field , and fets thy felfe agin thee ; VOL . II . Make Make keene thy faith , and with thy force ...
... hope , thy bosome friend ? Doth fad Despaire deny these griefes an end ? Despaire's a whisp'ring rebell , that within thee , Bribes all thy field , and fets thy felfe agin thee ; VOL . II . Make Make keene thy faith , and with thy force ...
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... hope of being famed for vertuous love . Yet with I thee , guided by better starres To purchase unsafe honour in the warres Or envied fmiles at Court ; for thy great race , And merits well may challenge th ' highest place . Yet know ...
... hope of being famed for vertuous love . Yet with I thee , guided by better starres To purchase unsafe honour in the warres Or envied fmiles at Court ; for thy great race , And merits well may challenge th ' highest place . Yet know ...
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