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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Page 846
1791
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Annual Register, Volume 13

Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 pages
...tears. Yon houfe, created on the rifmg ground, With tempting afpecl drew me from my road, For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. (Hard is the Fate of the infirm and poor !) H:re craving for a morfel of their bread, A paraper'd menial forc'd me from the door, To feek a...
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A Collection of Poems, in Four Volumes, Volume 3

G. Pearch - 1775 - 340 pages
...erefted on the rifing ground, With tempting afpeft drew me from my road, For plenty there a refidence hat found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. (Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor !) Here craving for a morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door, To feek a fhelter in...
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Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And ...

1780 - 226 pages
...tears. 'Yon houfe, erected on the riling ground, With tempting afpefl drew me from my road. For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificent...abode. (Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor!) Here craving for amorfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door $ To feek a fhelter in...
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A father's instructions; moral tales, fables, and reflections

Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...tears. Yon houfe, creeled on the rifingground, With tempting afpect drew me from my road ; For Plenty there a refidence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent...abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor! Here, as I crav'da morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door, To feek a fhcker in an...
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A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, Volume 3

G. Pearch, Robert Dodsley - 1783 - 346 pages
...7 Yon houfe, erofted on the rifing ground, With tempting afpecT: drew me from my road ; For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode, (Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor f) Here craving for a morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door. To feek a iheltcr...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...tears. Yon houfe, erefted on the rifing ground, With tempting afpeft drew me from my road ; For Plenty there a refidence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent...abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor ! Here, as I crav'da morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door To feek a fhcker in an...
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Select lessons in prose and verse, from various authors, to which are added ...

Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...rifing ground, With tempting afpect drew rne from my road; For Plenty there a refidence has-/ound, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor f * Here, as I crav'da morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door To leek a fbelter...
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Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse

1787 - 430 pages
...tears. Yon houfe erefted on the rifing ground, With tempting afpeft drew me from the road, For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the cafe of the infirm and poor, There begging for a morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial thruft me...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...tears. Yon houfe, crcned on the rifing ground, With tempting alpeu drew me from my road ; For Plenty there a refidence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent...abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor ' Here, as I crav'da mortel of their broad, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door To feck a flielter in...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...tears. Yon houfe, erected on the rifing ground, With tempting afpect diew me 1'rom my road j For Plenty >C- I Were, as I crav'da morfcl of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door To feck a fheltcr...
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