The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Three Volumes, Volume 1J. Dodsley, C. Dilly, T. Cadell ... [and 10 others], 1792 - 328 pages |
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... heart the Godhead own .. Whom fhalt thou not reform ? O thou haft feen , How God defcends to judge the fouls of men . Thou heard'ft the fentence how the guilty mourn , Driv'n out from God , and never to return . Yet more , behold ten ...
... heart the Godhead own .. Whom fhalt thou not reform ? O thou haft feen , How God defcends to judge the fouls of men . Thou heard'ft the fentence how the guilty mourn , Driv'n out from God , and never to return . Yet more , behold ten ...
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... heart to warm , To grieve , to raise , to terrify , to charm ; To fix the foul on God ; to teach the mind To know the dignity of human - kind ; By ftricter rules well - govern'd life to scan , And practise o'er the angel in the man ...
... heart to warm , To grieve , to raise , to terrify , to charm ; To fix the foul on God ; to teach the mind To know the dignity of human - kind ; By ftricter rules well - govern'd life to scan , And practise o'er the angel in the man ...
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... heart infpires , And with a thousand bright ideas fires ; Transports her quick , impatient , piercing eye , O'er the ftrait limits of mortality , To boundless orbs , and bids her fearless foar , Where only MILTON gain'd renown before ...
... heart infpires , And with a thousand bright ideas fires ; Transports her quick , impatient , piercing eye , O'er the ftrait limits of mortality , To boundless orbs , and bids her fearless foar , Where only MILTON gain'd renown before ...
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... heart , if it be mine . Whatever great or dreadful has been done Within the fight of conscious stars or fun , Is far beneath my daring : I look down On all the fplendors of the British crown . This globe is for my verse a narrow bound ...
... heart , if it be mine . Whatever great or dreadful has been done Within the fight of conscious stars or fun , Is far beneath my daring : I look down On all the fplendors of the British crown . This globe is for my verse a narrow bound ...
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... heart in man , This blackest moment fince the world began . Ah mournful turn ! the blissful earth , who late At leisure on her axle roll'd in state ; While thousand golden planets knew no reft , Still onward in their circling journey ...
... heart in man , This blackest moment fince the world began . Ah mournful turn ! the blissful earth , who late At leisure on her axle roll'd in state ; While thousand golden planets knew no reft , Still onward in their circling journey ...
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