Poems, Volume 1W. Wilson, 1821 |
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... give religion her unbridled scope , Nor judge by statute a believer's hope ; With close fidelity and love unfeigned To keep the matrimonial bond unstained ; Covetous only of a virtuous praise ; His life a lesson to the land he sways ...
... give religion her unbridled scope , Nor judge by statute a believer's hope ; With close fidelity and love unfeigned To keep the matrimonial bond unstained ; Covetous only of a virtuous praise ; His life a lesson to the land he sways ...
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... The Frenchman , easy , debonair , and brisk , Give him his lass , his fiddle , and his frisk , Is always happy , reign whoever may , And laughs the sense of misery far away ; He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ; And TABLE TALK . 7.
... The Frenchman , easy , debonair , and brisk , Give him his lass , his fiddle , and his frisk , Is always happy , reign whoever may , And laughs the sense of misery far away ; He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ; And TABLE TALK . 7.
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... gives the word , and mutiny soon roars In all her gates , and shakes her distant shores ; The standards of all nations are unfurled ; She has one foe , and that one foe the world . C And , if he doom that people with a frown TABLE TALK .
... gives the word , and mutiny soon roars In all her gates , and shakes her distant shores ; The standards of all nations are unfurled ; She has one foe , and that one foe the world . C And , if he doom that people with a frown TABLE TALK .
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... Give me the line , that ploughs its stately course Like a proud swan conquering the stream by force ; That , like some cottage beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When labour and when dulness , club in ...
... Give me the line , that ploughs its stately course Like a proud swan conquering the stream by force ; That , like some cottage beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When labour and when dulness , club in ...
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... give a Milton birth , asked ages more . Thus genius rose and set , at ordered times , And shot a day - spring into distant climes , Ennobling every region that he chose ; He sunk in Greece , in Italy he rose ; And , tedious years of ...
... give a Milton birth , asked ages more . Thus genius rose and set , at ordered times , And shot a day - spring into distant climes , Ennobling every region that he chose ; He sunk in Greece , in Italy he rose ; And , tedious years of ...
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