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Page 298 - As great might have aspired, and me, though mean, Drawn to his part; but other powers as great Fell not, but stand unshaken, from within Or from without, to all temptations armed.
Page 389 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 125 - She home return, whose voice's silver sound To cheerful songs can change my cheerless cries. Hence with the nightingale will I take part, That blessed bird, that spends her time of sleep In songs and plaintive pleas, the more t'augment 910 The memory of his misdeed that bred her woe. And you that feel no woe, / Whenas the sound Of these my nightly cries / Ye hear apart, Let break your sounder sleep, / And pity augment. Per. O Colin, Colin! the shepherds' joy, 190 How I admire each turning of thy...
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