Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 2J. Nichol, 1860 |
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... hearts - to make iniquity , as ashamed , hide its face - to apply caustic , nay cautery , to the sores of society - and to destroy sin by shewing both the ridicule which attaches to its progress and the wretched consequences which are ...
... hearts - to make iniquity , as ashamed , hide its face - to apply caustic , nay cautery , to the sores of society - and to destroy sin by shewing both the ridicule which attaches to its progress and the wretched consequences which are ...
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... heart . Good Saturn self , that homely emperor , In proudest pomp was not so clad of yore , As is the under - groom of the ostlery , Husbanding it in work - day yeomanry . Lo ! the long date of those expired days , Which the inspired ...
... heart . Good Saturn self , that homely emperor , In proudest pomp was not so clad of yore , As is the under - groom of the ostlery , Husbanding it in work - day yeomanry . Lo ! the long date of those expired days , Which the inspired ...
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... hearts , That sets such discord ' twixt agreeing parts , Which never can be set at onement more , Until the maw's wide mouth be stopt with store . RICHARD LOVELACE . THIS unlucky cavalier and bard was born in 1618. He was the son of Sir ...
... hearts , That sets such discord ' twixt agreeing parts , Which never can be set at onement more , Until the maw's wide mouth be stopt with store . RICHARD LOVELACE . THIS unlucky cavalier and bard was born in 1618. He was the son of Sir ...
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... heart broken , and his constitution probably in- jured . He gradually sunk ; and Wood says that he became very poor in body and purse , was the object of charity , ' went in ragged clothes , and mostly lodged in obscure and dirty places ...
... heart broken , and his constitution probably in- jured . He gradually sunk ; and Wood says that he became very poor in body and purse , was the object of charity , ' went in ragged clothes , and mostly lodged in obscure and dirty places ...
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... hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep , When healths and draughts go free , Fishes , that tipple in the deep , Know no such liberty . 3 When , like committed linnets , I With shriller throat shall sing The ...
... hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep , When healths and draughts go free , Fishes , that tipple in the deep , Know no such liberty . 3 When , like committed linnets , I With shriller throat shall sing The ...
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