Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition, 2. köideCharles Dilly, 1790 |
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... youth He had the wit , which I can well obferve To - day in our young Lords ; but they may jeft , Till their own fcorn return to them unnoted , Ere they can hide their levity in honour , So like a courtier ; no contempt or bitterness ...
... youth He had the wit , which I can well obferve To - day in our young Lords ; but they may jeft , Till their own fcorn return to them unnoted , Ere they can hide their levity in honour , So like a courtier ; no contempt or bitterness ...
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Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition. Jul . I do repent me as it is an evil ; And take the fhame with joy . Duke . There reft . Love in a Grave , severe ...
Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition. Jul . I do repent me as it is an evil ; And take the fhame with joy . Duke . There reft . Love in a Grave , severe ...
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Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition. I know not if they fpeak but truth of her , These hands shall tear her : if they wrong her honour , The proudeft of them ...
Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition. I know not if they fpeak but truth of her , These hands shall tear her : if they wrong her honour , The proudeft of them ...
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Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition. Talk logic with acquaintance that you have , And practife rhetoric in your common talk : Mufic and poefy ufe to quicken ...
Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition. Talk logic with acquaintance that you have , And practife rhetoric in your common talk : Mufic and poefy ufe to quicken ...
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Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition. For you fhall hop without my cuftom , Sir : I'll none of it ; hence ! make your best of it . Cath . I never faw a better ...
Selected for the Improvement of Youth, ... Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose. The Second Edition. For you fhall hop without my cuftom , Sir : I'll none of it ; hence ! make your best of it . Cath . I never faw a better ...
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