The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 39. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... wife and state , With all that power unfelt courts mankind to be great , Did with new unexperienc'd glories wait ) Still wear , ftill doat , on his invifible ring ? VII . Were VII . Were I to form a regular thought of SWIFT'S POEMS .
... wife and state , With all that power unfelt courts mankind to be great , Did with new unexperienc'd glories wait ) Still wear , ftill doat , on his invifible ring ? VII . Were VII . Were I to form a regular thought of SWIFT'S POEMS .
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... wife . Here you may read , " Dear charming faint ! " Beneath , " A new receipt for paint : " Here , in beau - fpelling , " Tru tel deth ; " There , in her own , " For an el breth : " Here , " Lovely nymph , pronounce my doom ! " There ...
... wife . Here you may read , " Dear charming faint ! " Beneath , " A new receipt for paint : " Here , in beau - fpelling , " Tru tel deth ; " There , in her own , " For an el breth : " Here , " Lovely nymph , pronounce my doom ! " There ...
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... Wife to one of the footmen . + Earl of Berkeley's valet . The old deaf housekeeper . Galway . The earl of Drogheda , who with the primate was to fucceed the two earls . ** Clerk of the kitchen . + tt Ferris . So I went to the party ...
... Wife to one of the footmen . + Earl of Berkeley's valet . The old deaf housekeeper . Galway . The earl of Drogheda , who with the primate was to fucceed the two earls . ** Clerk of the kitchen . + tt Ferris . So I went to the party ...
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... wife as I was before . Well ; but then they would have had me gone to the cunning man ! No , faid I , ' tis the fame thing , the chaplain will be here anon . An ufual faying of hers . So- * So the chaplain came in . Now the fervants 24 ...
... wife as I was before . Well ; but then they would have had me gone to the cunning man ! No , faid I , ' tis the fame thing , the chaplain will be here anon . An ufual faying of hers . So- * So the chaplain came in . Now the fervants 24 ...
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... wife ; I never took one in your coat for a conjurer in all my life . With that he twifted his girdle at me like a rope , as who should fay , Now you may go hang yourself for me ! and fo went away . Well I thought I should have fwoon'd ...
... wife ; I never took one in your coat for a conjurer in all my life . With that he twifted his girdle at me like a rope , as who should fay , Now you may go hang yourself for me ! and fo went away . Well I thought I should have fwoon'd ...
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