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W. J. MICKLE.
1734-1788.
_The Mariner's Wife_.
His very foot has music in 't
As he comes up the stairs.
JOHN LANGHORNE.
1735-1779.
_The Country Justice_.
Part i
Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew;
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew,
Gave the sad presage of his future years,
The child of misery, baptized in tears.
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DR. WALCOTT.
1738-1819.
_Peter Pindar's Expostulatory Odes to a great Duke
and a little Lord_. _Ode XV_.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin, so merry, draws one out.
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MRS. BARBAULD.
1743-1825.
_Warrington Academy_.
Man is the noblest growth our realms supply,
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
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SIR WILLIAM JONES.
1746-1794.
_A Persian Song of Hafiz_.
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.
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_Ode in Imitation of Alcoeus_.
What constitutes a state?
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Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.
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