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Ambition tempts to rise, Then whirls the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy.
Ambition tempts to rise, Then whirls the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy.
Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- Thomas Gray
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- Approximate author period: c. 1743 AD · early modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 109 · printed citation: Thomas Gray (On a Distant Prospect of Eton College). · compiler notes excluded
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