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The poetical works of James Thomson [electronic resource] : with his last corrections and improvements. In two volumes. With the Life of the Author. From the Royal Quarto Edition of 1762. He wants no advocate his cause to plead; You will yourselves be patrons of the dead. No party his benevolence confin'd, No sect-alike it flow'd to all mankind. - Such was the Man-The Poet well you know; Oft' has he touch'd your hearts with tender Woe:-For his chaste Muse employ'd her heav'n-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire: Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. - Prol. to Coriol. ... .

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The poetical works of James Thomson [electronic resource] : with his last corrections and improvements. In two volumes. With the Life of the Author. From the Royal Quarto Edition of 1762. He wants no advocate his cause to plead; You will yourselves be patrons of the dead. No party his benevolence confin'd, No sect-alike it flow'd to all mankind. - Such was the Man-The Poet well you know; Oft' has he touch'd your hearts with tender Woe:-For his chaste Muse employ'd her heav'n-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire: Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. - Prol. to Coriol. ... .

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The poetical works of James Thomson [electronic resource] : with his last corrections and improvements. In two volumes. With the Life of the Author. From the Royal Quarto Edition of 1762. He wants no advocate his cause to plead; You will yourselves be patrons of the dead. No party his benevolence confin'd, No sect-alike it flow'd to all mankind. - Such was the Man-The Poet well you know; Oft' has he touch'd your hearts with tender Woe:-For his chaste Muse employ'd her heav'n-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire: Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. - Prol. to Coriol. ... .

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The poetical works of James Thomson [electronic resource] : with his last corrections and improvements. In two volumes. With the Life of the Author. From the Royal Quarto Edition of 1762. He wants no advocate his cause to plead; You will yourselves be patrons of the dead. No party his benevolence confin'd, No sect-alike it flow'd to all mankind. - Such was the Man-The Poet well you know; Oft' has he touch'd your hearts with tender Woe:-For his chaste Muse employ'd her heav'n-taught lyre, None but the noblest passions to inspire: Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot. - Prol. to Coriol. ... .

Author / Creator

Thomson, James, 1700-1748.

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London : printed by Fry and Couchman. Moorfields, Anno, 1787.

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Poems.

Date

1787.

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74VvxDOQgzpb

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English