Poems and PlaysMessrs. Price, Sleater, 1785 - 274 pages |
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... come down To ravage in a country town ! Or Flavia been content to ftop At triumphs in a Fleet - street shop . O had her eyes forgot to blaze ! Or Jack had wanted eyes to gaze . 5 10 15 O ! But let exclamation cease , Her prefence banish ...
... come down To ravage in a country town ! Or Flavia been content to ftop At triumphs in a Fleet - street shop . O had her eyes forgot to blaze ! Or Jack had wanted eyes to gaze . 5 10 15 O ! But let exclamation cease , Her prefence banish ...
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... the ex- tremes of refinement , Painting and Mufic come in for a fhare . As thefe offer the feeble mind a lefs laborious entertainment , they at firft rival Poetry , and at length fupplant her ; they engrofs all that favour once fhewn TO ...
... the ex- tremes of refinement , Painting and Mufic come in for a fhare . As thefe offer the feeble mind a lefs laborious entertainment , they at firft rival Poetry , and at length fupplant her ; they engrofs all that favour once fhewn TO ...
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... come , when ftript of all her charms , 355 The land of fcholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems tranfmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd , and poets wrote for fame , One fink of level avarice fhall lie , And ...
... come , when ftript of all her charms , 355 The land of fcholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems tranfmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd , and poets wrote for fame , One fink of level avarice fhall lie , And ...
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... come to the place where we all were to dine , ( A chair - lumber'd clofet juft twelve feet by nine :) My friend bade me welcome , but ftruck me quite dumb , With tidings that Johnson and Burke would not come , For I knew it , he cried ...
... come to the place where we all were to dine , ( A chair - lumber'd clofet juft twelve feet by nine :) My friend bade me welcome , but ftruck me quite dumb , With tidings that Johnson and Burke would not come , For I knew it , he cried ...
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... come in on a trice , He's keeping a corner for fomething that's nice : There's a pafty - a pafty ! repeated the Jew ; I don't care , if I keep a corner for't too . What the de'il , mon , a pafty ! re - echo'd the Scot ; Though fplitting ...
... come in on a trice , He's keeping a corner for fomething that's nice : There's a pafty - a pafty ! repeated the Jew ; I don't care , if I keep a corner for't too . What the de'il , mon , a pafty ! re - echo'd the Scot ; Though fplitting ...
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