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... nature shrinks to hear , Assum'd too oft a patriot character ; 9 95 100 tional insults of the most unfeeling barbarity . A queen led in chains was a favourite embellishment in these ostentatious processions . The consideration of their ...
... nature shrinks to hear , Assum'd too oft a patriot character ; 9 95 100 tional insults of the most unfeeling barbarity . A queen led in chains was a favourite embellishment in these ostentatious processions . The consideration of their ...
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... against human nature at large ; and virtue , no less than good policy , must put arms into the hands of all civilized nations to oppose them . C Alone Alone she mourn'd her once unrivall❜d weal , Nor claim'd ROMAN PORTRAITS . 9.
... against human nature at large ; and virtue , no less than good policy , must put arms into the hands of all civilized nations to oppose them . C Alone Alone she mourn'd her once unrivall❜d weal , Nor claim'd ROMAN PORTRAITS . 9.
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... nature's genial laws ; Strangles heaven's bounty , and converts to woe 165 The plenteous source whence joy and life should flow : As if the tree , whose pregnant boughs might yield The richest honours of Pomona's field , Should turn ...
... nature's genial laws ; Strangles heaven's bounty , and converts to woe 165 The plenteous source whence joy and life should flow : As if the tree , whose pregnant boughs might yield The richest honours of Pomona's field , Should turn ...
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... and irresistible impulse of human nature , and in itself innocent , else they would not have attempted to counteract it by restraints fo unnatural . Grim Grim death , and priests more grim , with Stygian ROMAN PORTRAITS . 13.
... and irresistible impulse of human nature , and in itself innocent , else they would not have attempted to counteract it by restraints fo unnatural . Grim Grim death , and priests more grim , with Stygian ROMAN PORTRAITS . 13.
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... Nature shall brave them all , and triumph still . Though no fierce combat on the ensanguin'd plain , Or added soil distinguish'd Numa's reign , A fairer palm his bloodless annals boast ; 195 Rome gain'd in virtue what in fame she lost ...
... Nature shall brave them all , and triumph still . Though no fierce combat on the ensanguin'd plain , Or added soil distinguish'd Numa's reign , A fairer palm his bloodless annals boast ; 195 Rome gain'd in virtue what in fame she lost ...
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