The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts, Том 3J. Dodsley [and others], 1792 - 340 стор. |
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... happiness ? No means of happiness when virtue yields ; That bafis failing , falls the building too , And lays in ruin ev'ry virtuous joy . The rigid guardian of a blameless heart , So long rever'd , fo long reputed wife , Is weak ; with ...
... happiness ? No means of happiness when virtue yields ; That bafis failing , falls the building too , And lays in ruin ev'ry virtuous joy . The rigid guardian of a blameless heart , So long rever'd , fo long reputed wife , Is weak ; with ...
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... happiness ? From that , the delicate , The grand , the marvellous , of civil life , Want and convenience , under - workers , lay The bafis , on which love of glory builds . Nor is thy life , O virtue ! less in debt To praise , thy ...
... happiness ? From that , the delicate , The grand , the marvellous , of civil life , Want and convenience , under - workers , lay The bafis , on which love of glory builds . Nor is thy life , O virtue ! less in debt To praise , thy ...
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... happiness ? Moft fure : And is it not for reason too ? Nothing this world unriddles , but the next . Whence inextinguishable thirst of gain ? From inextinguishable life in man : Man , if not meant , by worth , to reach the skies , Had ...
... happiness ? Moft fure : And is it not for reason too ? Nothing this world unriddles , but the next . Whence inextinguishable thirst of gain ? From inextinguishable life in man : Man , if not meant , by worth , to reach the skies , Had ...
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... happiness ( whence hypocrites in joy ! Makers of mirth ! artificers of smiles ! ) Why should the joy most poignant sense affords , Burn us with blushes , and rebuke our pride ? — Those heav'n - born blushes tell us man defcends , Ev'n ...
... happiness ( whence hypocrites in joy ! Makers of mirth ! artificers of smiles ! ) Why should the joy most poignant sense affords , Burn us with blushes , and rebuke our pride ? — Those heav'n - born blushes tell us man defcends , Ev'n ...
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... happiness purfu'd , tho ' never found ? " Man's thirst of happiness declares It is , 66 ( For nature never gravitates to nought ) ; " That thirft unquencht declares It is not Here . 66 My LUCIA , Thy CLARISSA , call to thought ; " Why ...
... happiness purfu'd , tho ' never found ? " Man's thirst of happiness declares It is , 66 ( For nature never gravitates to nought ) ; " That thirft unquencht declares It is not Here . 66 My LUCIA , Thy CLARISSA , call to thought ; " Why ...
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