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- Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England…
- A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most…
- I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
- Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
- But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn…
- O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts…
- Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
- Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
- Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
- England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
- It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all…
- Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
- All we behold is miracle.
- And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
- The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and…
- How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again,…
- But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
- Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.
- England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be…
- All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
- All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
- Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of…
- I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for…
- No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.
- When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
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