The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1835 |
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... land , Fled intellectual night . Where now that holy gloom which hid Fair Truth from vulgar ken ? Where now that wisdom which forbid To think that monks were men ? The tangled mazes of the schools , Which spread so thick before ; Which ...
... land , Fled intellectual night . Where now that holy gloom which hid Fair Truth from vulgar ken ? Where now that wisdom which forbid To think that monks were men ? The tangled mazes of the schools , Which spread so thick before ; Which ...
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... lands you still ; The good , with shame I speak it , feel Not half this proselyting zeal : While cold their master's cause to own Content to go to heaven alone ; The infidel in liberal trim , Would carry all the world with him : Would ...
... lands you still ; The good , with shame I speak it , feel Not half this proselyting zeal : While cold their master's cause to own Content to go to heaven alone ; The infidel in liberal trim , Would carry all the world with him : Would ...
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... land - tax , and a ruin'd nation ; Listens to many a tedious tale Of poachers , who deserv'd a jail ; Heard all the business of the quorum , Each cause and crime produc'd before ' em : Heard them abuse with complaisance The language ...
... land - tax , and a ruin'd nation ; Listens to many a tedious tale Of poachers , who deserv'd a jail ; Heard all the business of the quorum , Each cause and crime produc'd before ' em : Heard them abuse with complaisance The language ...
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... land ; Clamouring for peace , she rends the air with noise , And to reform a part , the whole destroys . Reviles oppression only to oppress , And in the act of murder , breathes redress . Such have we seen on Freedom's genuine coast ...
... land ; Clamouring for peace , she rends the air with noise , And to reform a part , the whole destroys . Reviles oppression only to oppress , And in the act of murder , breathes redress . Such have we seen on Freedom's genuine coast ...
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... land : Ev'n you , with fond impatient feelings burn , Though free as air , though certain of return , Then , if to you who voluntarily roam , So dear the memory of your distant home , O think how absence the lov'd scene endears To him ...
... land : Ev'n you , with fond impatient feelings burn , Though free as air , though certain of return , Then , if to you who voluntarily roam , So dear the memory of your distant home , O think how absence the lov'd scene endears To him ...
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