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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes
  

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Never yet was conclusion so cogent and sound,
Or so fitted the Church's weak foes to confound.

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For, observe, the more low all her merits they place,
The more they make out the miraculous case,
And the more all good Christians must deem it profane
To disturb such a prodigy's marvellous reign.