English Poetry of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore |
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... pleasure their desire ; But greedy that , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , 90 Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . III . Modes of self - love ...
... pleasure their desire ; But greedy that , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , 90 Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . III . Modes of self - love ...
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... pleasure , and contentment these ; Some sunk to beasts , find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods , confess ev'n virtue vain ; Or indolent , to each extreme they fall , To trust in ev'rything , or doubt of all . Who thus define ...
... pleasure , and contentment these ; Some sunk to beasts , find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods , confess ev'n virtue vain ; Or indolent , to each extreme they fall , To trust in ev'rything , or doubt of all . Who thus define ...
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... pleasure , and the love of sway . 210 That , Nature gives ; and where the lesson taught Is but to please , can pleasure seem a fault ? Experience , this ; by man's oppression curst , They seek the second not to lose the first . Men ...
... pleasure , and the love of sway . 210 That , Nature gives ; and where the lesson taught Is but to please , can pleasure seem a fault ? Experience , this ; by man's oppression curst , They seek the second not to lose the first . Men ...
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MATTHEW PRIOR | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
The Female Phaeton | 15 |
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