The Works of the English Poets, 39. köideJ. Nichols, 1779 - 736 pages |
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... hands than fages , She feems a medley of all ages , With a huge fardingale to fwell her fustian stuff , A new commode , a top - knot , and a ruff , Her face patch'd o'er with modern pedantry , With a long sweeping train Of comments and ...
... hands than fages , She feems a medley of all ages , With a huge fardingale to fwell her fustian stuff , A new commode , a top - knot , and a ruff , Her face patch'd o'er with modern pedantry , With a long sweeping train Of comments and ...
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... hands it past , And vanish'd to an empty title in the last . For , when the animating mind is fled ( Which nature never can retain , Nor e'er call back again ) , The body , though gigantic , lies all cold and dead . XII . And thus ...
... hands it past , And vanish'd to an empty title in the last . For , when the animating mind is fled ( Which nature never can retain , Nor e'er call back again ) , The body , though gigantic , lies all cold and dead . XII . And thus ...
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... hands . The devil take me ! faid fhe ( bleffing herfelf ) if ever I faw ' t ! So fhe roar'd like a Bedlam , as though I had call'd her all to naught . So you know , what could I fay to her any more ? I e'en left her , and came away as ...
... hands . The devil take me ! faid fhe ( bleffing herfelf ) if ever I faw ' t ! So fhe roar'd like a Bedlam , as though I had call'd her all to naught . So you know , what could I fay to her any more ? I e'en left her , and came away as ...
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... ; which gave occafion to this ballad , written by the author in a counterfeit hand , as if a third person had done it . Yet Yet he did not know If it were friend or 28 SWIFT'S POEM S. Another Ballad, occafioned by the preceding one.
... ; which gave occafion to this ballad , written by the author in a counterfeit hand , as if a third person had done it . Yet Yet he did not know If it were friend or 28 SWIFT'S POEM S. Another Ballad, occafioned by the preceding one.
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... hand . Then , good Doctor Swift Pay thanks for the gift , For you freely muft own , you were at a dead lift : And , though fome malicious young spirit did do't , may know by the hand it had no cloven foot . Chor . Let cenfuring , & c ...
... hand . Then , good Doctor Swift Pay thanks for the gift , For you freely muft own , you were at a dead lift : And , though fome malicious young spirit did do't , may know by the hand it had no cloven foot . Chor . Let cenfuring , & c ...
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