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Faith's fiftcr! nurfe of iair Defire I Fear's antidote 1 a wife and well fbay'd fire Temper'd 'twixt cold defpair, and torrid joy:
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. cn 1795
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Oh! do not hold me fuch a worthlefs wretch f Defire of wealth's a crime my foul has ne'er been tainted with.
The miscellaneous works of Richard Linnecar, of Wakefield 1789
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And fignify this loving interview To the expcfters of our Trojan part j Defire them home. —
The Plays of William Shakspeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations ... 1785
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Defire, whether we judge from analogy, or from the moral attributes of God, feems to imply the reality of its objedt; and the belief of this reality, which has prevailed in almoft every age, and nation, mull either have arifen from
A father's instructions; moral tales, fables, and reflections 1781
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You have free leave to fpeak your griefs; but this Defire the fenate to obferve, and nearly:
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Nature alone can Love infpire j Art is vain to move Defire*
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Every Creature finds the Ob - ject of Defire in his own Species j and there arc few Temptations to tranfgrefs thofe Bounds: An Appetite indeed of Mind or Body, may be deprav - ed or warped in a fevv Inftances, but it never can be loft or altered, nor yet fo far mifled to a wrong Ob - ject, as not to leave the Intention of Nature very clear and obvious.
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The Work itfelf is in few Hands, and the Map, as far as appears, hath been only publilhed in that Book, is now again publiflied, as it illu - llrates this Work, and may be otherwife agreeable to the Curious; having a Defire not to omit any Thing which would render the Work compleat, or that would be acceptable to thePublick.
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And of thefe laft fome, who deelar'd their Defire to be circumcis'd and baptiz'd and fubmit to the whole Law, were Cfor fome time before their Circumciflon and Baptifm j diftinguifli'd from the reft.
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From Defire proceeds that unbe - coming Excefs of Grief which is apt in - decently to tranfport us when GOD tranflates our Friend from our Bofom in - to his own.
Letters Concerning the Love of God, Between the Author of the Proposal to the Ladies, and Mr ... 1705
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