...without busying myself in the affairs of men; being little more than a spectator in this world — I hear the tumult of the distant throng, As that of seas remote or dying storms. Eager Ambition's fiery chace I see; I see the circling hunt of noisy men Burst Law's enclosure, leap...

...without busying myself in the affairs of men; being little more than a spectator in this world — I hear the tumult of the distant throng, As that of seas remote or dying storms. Eager Ambition's fiery chace I see; I see the circling hunt of noisy men Burst Law's enclosure, leap...

...their notes renew, and bleating herds " Attest their joy, that hill and valley ring." PAR. LOsT, • " Here, like a shepherd gazing from his hut, " Touching his reed, or leaning on his staff." NIGHT THOUGHTs. Oscar's Soliloquy, when alone in Caros, on the approach of the enemy, is written in...

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