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... half muscle and half bone , Supplies with warm activity and force A mind well - lodg'd , and masculine of course . Hence liberty , sweet liberty inspires , And keeps alive his fierce but noble fires . Patient of constitutional controul ...
... half muscle and half bone , Supplies with warm activity and force A mind well - lodg'd , and masculine of course . Hence liberty , sweet liberty inspires , And keeps alive his fierce but noble fires . Patient of constitutional controul ...
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... half mankind , And add two thirds of the remaining half , And find the total of their hopes and fears Dreams , empty dreams . The million flit as gay As if created only like the fly , That spreads his motley wings in th ' eye of noon ...
... half mankind , And add two thirds of the remaining half , And find the total of their hopes and fears Dreams , empty dreams . The million flit as gay As if created only like the fly , That spreads his motley wings in th ' eye of noon ...
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... half lurcher and half cur- His dog attends him . Close behind his heel Now creeps he slow ; and now , with many a frisk Wide - scamp'ring , snatches up the drifted snow With iv'ry teeth , or ploughs it with his snout ; Then shakes his ...
... half lurcher and half cur- His dog attends him . Close behind his heel Now creeps he slow ; and now , with many a frisk Wide - scamp'ring , snatches up the drifted snow With iv'ry teeth , or ploughs it with his snout ; Then shakes his ...
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