On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]
… rude forefathers of mankind, Is note for note delivered in our ears, In the last scene of her six thousand years. Yet Fashion, leader of a chattering train, Whom man, for his own hurt, permits to reign, Who shifts and changes all things … are souls on earth, Though future pain may serve for present mirth, Acquainted with the woes that fear or shame, By fashion taught, forbade them once to name, And, having felt the pangs you deem a jest, Have proved them truths too big to …
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