The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseDavid Nichol Smith Clarendon Press, 1971 - 727 pages |
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... Never , never would she buy Indian Dust or Tyrian Dye , Never trade abroad for more If she saw her native Store , If her inward Worth were known She might ever live alone . Hora Lyrica , 1709 34 Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of ...
... Never , never would she buy Indian Dust or Tyrian Dye , Never trade abroad for more If she saw her native Store , If her inward Worth were known She might ever live alone . Hora Lyrica , 1709 34 Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of ...
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David Nichol Smith. • To steal a hint was never known , ' But what he writ was all his own . ' He never thought an honour done him , ' Because a duke was proud to own him ; ' Would rather slip aside , and choose ' To talk with wits in ...
David Nichol Smith. • To steal a hint was never known , ' But what he writ was all his own . ' He never thought an honour done him , ' Because a duke was proud to own him ; ' Would rather slip aside , and choose ' To talk with wits in ...
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... never , never , reach'd one gen'rous Thought . Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour , Content to dwell in Decencies for ever ; So very reasonable , so unmov'd , As never yet to love , or to be lov'd . She , while her Lover pants ...
... never , never , reach'd one gen'rous Thought . Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour , Content to dwell in Decencies for ever ; So very reasonable , so unmov'd , As never yet to love , or to be lov'd . She , while her Lover pants ...
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