A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Band 6For R. and J. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1763 - 336 Seiten |
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... cou'd ? For body is but a machine alone Mov'd by external force , and impulfe not its own . Rate not the extenfion of the human mind By the plebeian standard of mankind , But by the fize of thofe gigantic few , Whom Greece and Rome ...
... cou'd ? For body is but a machine alone Mov'd by external force , and impulfe not its own . Rate not the extenfion of the human mind By the plebeian standard of mankind , But by the fize of thofe gigantic few , Whom Greece and Rome ...
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... cou'd die , So fram'd , fo fashion'd for eternity ; Self - mov'd , not form'd of parts together ty'd , Which time can diffipate , and force divide ; For beings of this make can never die , } } Whose pow'rs within themselves , and their ...
... cou'd die , So fram'd , fo fashion'd for eternity ; Self - mov'd , not form'd of parts together ty'd , Which time can diffipate , and force divide ; For beings of this make can never die , } } Whose pow'rs within themselves , and their ...
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... cou'd the mind , did fhe alone depend On fenfe , the errors of those fenfes mend ? Yet oft , we fee those senses fhe corrects , And oft their information quite rejects . In diftances of things , their fhapes and size , Our reafon judges ...
... cou'd the mind , did fhe alone depend On fenfe , the errors of those fenfes mend ? Yet oft , we fee those senses fhe corrects , And oft their information quite rejects . In diftances of things , their fhapes and size , Our reafon judges ...
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... Let's not unbid th ' Almighty's ftandard quit , Howe'er fevere our poft , we must submit , Cou'd I a firm perfuafion once attain That after death no being wou'd remain ; To To thofe dark fhades I'd willingly descend , Where all [ 75 ]
... Let's not unbid th ' Almighty's ftandard quit , Howe'er fevere our poft , we must submit , Cou'd I a firm perfuafion once attain That after death no being wou'd remain ; To To thofe dark fhades I'd willingly descend , Where all [ 75 ]
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... cou'd have a friend : His flatterers leave him , and with wild affright He looks within , and fhudders at the fight : When threatning Death uplifts his pointed dart , With what impatience he applies to art , Life to prolong amidst ...
... cou'd have a friend : His flatterers leave him , and with wild affright He looks within , and fhudders at the fight : When threatning Death uplifts his pointed dart , With what impatience he applies to art , Life to prolong amidst ...
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