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/ page 141 of 1205 /I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute
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The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Hence jarring sectaries may learnTheir real interest to discern;That brother should not war with brother,And worry and devour each other;But sing and shine by sweet consent,Till life's poor transient night is spent,Respecting in each other's caseThe gifts of nature and of grace.
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Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
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Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit
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He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kind-hearted gentleman.
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The dinner waits, and we are tired: / Said Gilpin - So am I!
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Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
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He has no hope who never had a fear.
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The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
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Not scorned in Heaven, though little noticed here.
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Religion does not censure or excludeUnnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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Our severest winter, commonly called the spring.
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A land-breeze shook the shrouds, / And she was overset; / Down went the Royal George, / With all her crew complete.
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A hat not much the worse for wear.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
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And up he got, in haste to ride, / But soon came down again.
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