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Page 130 - And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
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Page 137 - I have felt with my native land, I am one with my kind, I embrace the purpose of God, and the doom assign'd.
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Page 173 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Pardoner's Wallet |
| Author | Samuel McChord Crothers |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 287 pages |
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