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The Works of Abraham Cowley - Page 230
by Abraham Cowley - 1806
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...art, Be brought to move one step from thee> May'st thou no passioa have for me. [From " the Wish."] WELL, then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they, methinks, deserve...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pages
...art, Be brought to move one step from thee, May'st thou no passion have for me. .' [From "The Wish."] WELL, then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy : And they, methinks, deserve...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...public distresses ; yet I could not abstain from renewing my old school-boy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect: Well then; I now do plainly see,...&c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from- his majesty's happy restoration, but the getting into some moderately convenient retreat...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...public distresses ; yet I could not abstain from renewing my old school-boy'* wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect; Well then; I now do plainly see,...&c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration, but the getting into some moderately convenient retreat...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...public distresses ; yet I could not abstain from renewing my old school-boy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect : . Well then; I now do plainly see, This busy world and 1 shall ne'er agree, &c. And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's...
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The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 3

Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 pages
...publick distresses ; yet I could not abstain from renewing my old school-boy's wish, in a copy of verses to the same effect : Well then* ; I now do plainly...then proposed to myself any other • We have these versei, under the name of The With, in, THE MMTKESS, vol. viii. p. 29. advantage from his majesty's...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...public distresses ; yet I could not abstain from renewing my old school boy's wish in a copy of verses to the same effect : Well then : I now do plainly see, This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, Ice.* And I never then proposed to myself any other advantage from his majesty's happy restoration,...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 1809 - 490 pages
...*-«eoetc:rCa'''^e. sir ^ ^^SSrSsSS*** ^r^^:?i^ ' do ev;r May'st thou no passion have tor me. THE WISH. WELL, then ; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they, methinks, deserve...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...any art, Be brought to move one step from thee, May'st thou no passion have for me. THE WISH. TTTELL, then; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er The very honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy ; And they, methinks, deserve...
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Poems

Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...should a thing so pleasant seem to thee, that thou shouldst come to live it o'er again in me? THE WISH. Well, then, I now do plainly see, this busy world and I shall ne'er agree ; the very honey of all earthly joy does of all meats the soonest cloy : and they (methinks) deserve...
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