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... charms have forever fled ; - how often do we close the book in a disagreeable state of mind , the memory of which prevents us from soon opening its pages again ! But , in the ar- rangement ( which the editor believes to be entirely ...
... charms have forever fled ; - how often do we close the book in a disagreeable state of mind , the memory of which prevents us from soon opening its pages again ! But , in the ar- rangement ( which the editor believes to be entirely ...
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... charms For which he melts in fondness , eat him up With fervent anguish and consuming rage . In vain reproaches lend ... charm , The father's lustre , and the mother's bloom . Then infant reason grows apace , and calls For the kind hand ...
... charms For which he melts in fondness , eat him up With fervent anguish and consuming rage . In vain reproaches lend ... charm , The father's lustre , and the mother's bloom . Then infant reason grows apace , and calls For the kind hand ...
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... charms , sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession , taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed , These were thy charms - but all these charms are fled . DESOLATING EFFECTS OF LAND ...
... charms , sweet village ! sports like these , With sweet succession , taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed , These were thy charms - but all these charms are fled . DESOLATING EFFECTS OF LAND ...
Page 37
... charms are past , for charms are frail , When time advances , and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress . Thus fares the land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest ...
... charms are past , for charms are frail , When time advances , and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress . Thus fares the land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest ...
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... charms , And left a lover's for a father's arms . With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes , And blest the cot where every pleasure rose ; And kissed her thoughtless babes with many a tear , And clasped them close , in sorrow ...
... charms , And left a lover's for a father's arms . With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes , And blest the cot where every pleasure rose ; And kissed her thoughtless babes with many a tear , And clasped them close , in sorrow ...
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arms beauty behold beneath birds bloom bosom boughs breast breath brow busk Ceres charms cheerful chyle clouds courser death deep delight dread e'en earth ELSPA Eurus fair fear fields flame flocks flood flowers forest frae fruits Gaul Georgic give glebe glow grace green Grongar Hill groves hand happy heart heaven hills labor land light live maun mind morn mountains muse MUSIDORA Naiad Nature Nature's night numbers nymphs o'er pain peace plain plant pleasure plough praise pride race rage rapture reign rich rills rise rocks round rural scene shade sheep shepherd shine shrubs sigh Silurian sing skies smile soft soil song soon soul spread spring strains stream swain sweet swelling taste tempest tender Theana thee thine thou toil trees trembling vale Virgil virtue wandering wave wild winds wings Winter woods yield youth