A Collection of English Poems, 1660-1800Ronald Salmon Crane |
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... Virtue , male or female , can we name , But what will grow on Pride , or grow on Shame . Thus Nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue nearest to our vice ally'd : Reason the byas turns to good from ill , And Nero reigns a ...
... Virtue , male or female , can we name , But what will grow on Pride , or grow on Shame . Thus Nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue nearest to our vice ally'd : Reason the byas turns to good from ill , And Nero reigns a ...
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... Virtue , whether blest or curst , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count all th ' advantage prosp'rous Vice attains , " Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness they wou'd , One ...
... Virtue , whether blest or curst , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count all th ' advantage prosp'rous Vice attains , " Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad what happiness they wou'd , One ...
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... Virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? " But sometimes Virtue starves , while Vice is fed . " 150 What then ? Is the reward of Virtue bread ? That , Vice may merit , ' tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it , when he tills the soil , The ...
... Virtue sigh'd to lose a day ? " But sometimes Virtue starves , while Vice is fed . " 150 What then ? Is the reward of Virtue bread ? That , Vice may merit , ' tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it , when he tills the soil , The ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY 161816331667 | 1 |
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT 160616351668 | 12 |
SIR JOHN DENHAM 161516421669 | 20 |
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