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School James Kenneth Stephen	Wicked and degraded rule, Tending to debase the vicious, And corrupt the harmless fool; If there is a hateful habit Making man a...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Thought That Lingers: Part Twelve Karl Constantine FOLKES	to be morally...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A British PHILIPPIC Mark Akenside	Lest my best Efforts failing should debase The sacred Theme; for with no common Wing The Muse attempts to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A poem, Sacred to the Glorious memory of King George Richard Savage	Worth it exalts, when aiming to debase; Tis Virtue's Triumph, or 'tis Guilt's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Apology Written For My Son To His Master Mary Barber	Who dares no more debase the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Essay On The Different Stiles Of Poetry Thomas Parnell	Here flat Narrations fair Exploits debase, In Measures void of ev'ry shining Grace; Which never arm their Hero for the Field, Nor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An ignorance a Sunset Emily Dickinson	umference-Decay— Its Amber Revelation Exhilirate—Debase— O mnipotence' inspection Of Our inferior...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ant In Office. John Gay	All base conditions I refuse, Nor will I so debase the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Benares Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Yet man, this glorious creature, can debase His spirit down, to worship wood and stone, And hold the very beasts which bear his yoke,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Blazing Your Own Trail : Seizing the Day Before It's Too Late Mawphniang Napoleon	place. Don't hand them that power with self-debase, But trust your path, boldly embrace. Sands fall fast, slope grows steeper, Race the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Body, Mind and Soul Wallace Dean LaBenne	No mixed alloy from being coy to debase...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cliche Wallace Dean LaBenne	Many ways of doing things does nothing to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XVI. He Suggests the Advantage of Birth To a Person of Merit William Shenstone	The porcelain pure with vulgar dirt...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fragments Of Ancient Poetry, Fragment VI James Macpherson	I fly from the embrace of him who would debase my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode VI: Hymn To Cheerfulness Mark Akenside	Or if the nymph her audience deign, Debase the story of his pain With slavish looks, discolor'd eyes, And accents faltering into sighs;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Paraphrases From Scripture. MATT. vii. 12. Helen Maria Williams	No more would Fortune's partial smile debase The spirit, rich in intellectual grace; Who views unmov'd from scenes where pleasures bloom,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Precious Nikhil Parekh	Opprobrious are those who impeachingly debase, Sumptuous are those who ravishingly relish, Ravenous are those who disastrously...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Requiem of the Hunted Soul : A New Dawn's Poetic Alchemy Mawphniang Napoleon	And once more myself debase and unstring Perhaps somewhere deep I still exist My true self locked behind iron...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet # 12 Luis A. Estable	And how much your lines quite the rose debase For you have a beauty that came from...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Authors: A Satire Richard Savage	Wit we debase, if Ribaldry we praise, And Satire fades, when Slander wears the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Coronet Andrew Marvell	Ah, foolish Man, that would'st debase with them, And mortal Glory, Heavens...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Deaf Schoolmaster Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Mid all that can debase, degrade, How beautiful this earth is made, By pure affection, deep and dear, Affection like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Journey Charles Churchill	Of rueful length; Let them plain things obscure, Debase what's truly rich, and what is poor Make poorer still by jargon most uncouth; With ev'ry...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (excerpts) James Beattie	Wilt thou debase the heart which God...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Minstrel; Or, The Progress Of Genius : Book I. James Beattie	Wilt thou debase the heart which God...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)