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Perhaps society has grown more in a column of the Times , you can satisfy
charitable and less scandalous ; perhaps it is your feelings by stopping the paper
; and in only less easily amused . either case , you have the consolation of knowIt
...
Perhaps society has grown more in a column of the Times , you can satisfy
charitable and less scandalous ; perhaps it is your feelings by stopping the paper
; and in only less easily amused . either case , you have the consolation of knowIt
...
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Few men , and perhaps John , who Dorinda's picture kisses , fewer women , are
of Falstaff's happy temperOr Tom his friend , the favored elf , Who kisses fair
Dorinda's self ? ament , content to be the subject of wit in ' Faith , ' tis not easy to ...
Few men , and perhaps John , who Dorinda's picture kisses , fewer women , are
of Falstaff's happy temperOr Tom his friend , the favored elf , Who kisses fair
Dorinda's self ? ament , content to be the subject of wit in ' Faith , ' tis not easy to ...
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... perhaps , also anonymous :“ Whether gentlemen scribblers or poets in jail ; "
When Job contending with the devil I saw , Your impertinent wishes shall
certainly fail It did my wonder , but not pity , draw ; I'll take neither essence , nor
balsam of ...
... perhaps , also anonymous :“ Whether gentlemen scribblers or poets in jail ; "
When Job contending with the devil I saw , Your impertinent wishes shall
certainly fail It did my wonder , but not pity , draw ; I'll take neither essence , nor
balsam of ...
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... is a much better one upon the The times that followed the Revolution of same
lady , which we remember to have seen 1688 were perhaps the great age of
what we somewhere in print , with the name of the re- may call historical
epigrams .
... is a much better one upon the The times that followed the Revolution of same
lady , which we remember to have seen 1688 were perhaps the great age of
what we somewhere in print , with the name of the re- may call historical
epigrams .
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excellence ; though there seems no need for Perhaps the best of the Jacobite
epigrams quite so strict a limitation as Boileau's — un is one which Mr. Booth has
not given : bon mot de deux rimes orné . " The Romans “ God bless the King !
excellence ; though there seems no need for Perhaps the best of the Jacobite
epigrams quite so strict a limitation as Boileau's — un is one which Mr. Booth has
not given : bon mot de deux rimes orné . " The Romans “ God bless the King !
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