"Oh, let not then waste luxury impair / That manly soul of toil which strings your nerves, / And your own proper happiness creates!"
Britannia. A Poem.
At least 29 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1729, 1730, 1731, 1734, 1735, 1738, 1741, 1751, 1752, 1757, 1762, 1768, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1775, 1784, 1788, 1794).<br>
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See <u>Britannia. A Poem.</u> (London: Printed for T. Warner, at the Black-Boy, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1729). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T100015">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and other Poems</u>. Ed. James Sambrook. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.