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Not thus the land appeared in ages past , A dreary desert , and a gloomy waste , To savage beasts and savage laws a prey . ? And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claimed the skies , dispeopled air and floods , The lonely ...
Not thus the land appeared in ages past , A dreary desert , and a gloomy waste , To savage beasts and savage laws a prey . ? And kings more furious and severe than they ; Who claimed the skies , dispeopled air and floods , The lonely ...
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Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state , Laws wise as nature , and as fixed as fate . In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw , Entangle justice in her net of law , And right , too rigid , harden into wrong , 206 AN ESSAY ON MÅN .
Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state , Laws wise as nature , and as fixed as fate . In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw , Entangle justice in her net of law , And right , too rigid , harden into wrong , 206 AN ESSAY ON MÅN .
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Who first taught souls enslaved , and realms undone , The enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all Nature's laws , To invert the world , and counter work its cause ? Force first made conquest , and that conquest ...
Who first taught souls enslaved , and realms undone , The enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all Nature's laws , To invert the world , and counter work its cause ? Force first made conquest , and that conquest ...
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CONTENTS | 8 |
PREFATORY MEMOIR | 18 |
ESSAY ON CRITICISM | 40 |
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