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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors - Page 30
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 42

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1770 - 604 pages
...A youth of labour" with an age of cafe ; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. For him no wretches,...Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No furly porter Hands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from his gate, But on he moves to meet...
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The Deserted Village: A Poem

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1770 - 44 pages
...where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fty; THE DESERTED VILLAGE. For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from his gate, But on he moves to meet...
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Annual Register, Volume 13

Edmund Burke - History - 1771 - 590 pages
...a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him j»o wretches, born to work and weep ; Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep, j No ftfrly portt-r ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate, Bat on he moves...
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Retaliation: a poem. To which is added, some account of the life ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...A youth of labour with an age of cafe ; Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches,...Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to meet...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Now First ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 pages
...tempt the dangerous deep j No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from his gate; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently flopes the way ; And all his...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of Poems

English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...youth of labour with an age of eafe ; ' Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches,...born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No furly porter Hands in guilty ' ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate'...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of Poems

English poetry - 1785 - 320 pages
...weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep; No furly porter flands in guilty flate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But on he moves to...latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceiv'd decay, While refignation gently dopes the way ; And all his profpefts...
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Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse

American literature - 1787 - 430 pages
...thefe, A youth of labour, with an age of eafe ; Who quits a world where flrong temptations try, And fmce 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches,...born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No furly porter ftands., in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 8

Great Britain - 1791 - 302 pages
...youth of labour with an age of eafe ; • Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And fince 'tis hard to combat learns to fly. For him no wretches,...to work and weep, • Explore the mine or tempt the dang'rous deep ; No furly porter ftands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from his gate :...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...Who quits a world where ftrong temptations try, And, fince 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! . For For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dang'rous deep; No" furly porter Hands in guilty ftate, To fpurn imploring famine from the gate ; But...
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