The Works of the English Poets, 39. köideJ. Nichols, 1779 - 736 pages |
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... face , Borrow from every one a grace ; Unless I Virgil and Epicurus will not do , Their courting a retreat like you , put in Cæfar's learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of fouls . V. Let not old Rome ...
... face , Borrow from every one a grace ; Unless I Virgil and Epicurus will not do , Their courting a retreat like you , put in Cæfar's learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of fouls . V. Let not old Rome ...
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... face patch'd o'er with modern pedantry , With a long sweeping train Of comments and disputes , ridiculous and vain , All of old cut with a new dye : How foon have you reftor'd her charms And rid her of her lumber and her books , Dreft ...
... face patch'd o'er with modern pedantry , With a long sweeping train Of comments and disputes , ridiculous and vain , All of old cut with a new dye : How foon have you reftor'd her charms And rid her of her lumber and her books , Dreft ...
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... face and ear acute , Advanc'd on tiptoe , lean'd his head , To over - hear the grand difpute ; To learn what Northern kings defign , Or from Whitehall fome new exprefs , Papifts difarm'd , or fall of coin : For fure ( thought he ) it ...
... face and ear acute , Advanc'd on tiptoe , lean'd his head , To over - hear the grand difpute ; To learn what Northern kings defign , Or from Whitehall fome new exprefs , Papifts difarm'd , or fall of coin : For fure ( thought he ) it ...
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... face , Flies like a fquib from place to place , And travels not , but runs a race . From Paris gazette à - la - main , This day arriv'd , without his train , Mordanto in a week from Spain . A meffenger comes all a - reek Mordanto at ...
... face , Flies like a fquib from place to place , And travels not , but runs a race . From Paris gazette à - la - main , This day arriv'd , without his train , Mordanto in a week from Spain . A meffenger comes all a - reek Mordanto at ...
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... face , And fill Jack Smith with hopes to keep his place : By force of wine , ev'n Scarborough is brave , Hal grows more pert , and Somers not fo grave ; Wine can give Portland wit , and Cleveland fenfe , Montague learning , Bolton ...
... face , And fill Jack Smith with hopes to keep his place : By force of wine , ev'n Scarborough is brave , Hal grows more pert , and Somers not fo grave ; Wine can give Portland wit , and Cleveland fenfe , Montague learning , Bolton ...
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