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... And cancel at three - score a life of fame ; * This tranflation was firft printed in one of our Author's earliest works , The present state of learning in Europe , 12mos No more my titles fhall my children tell , The 1759 .
... And cancel at three - score a life of fame ; * This tranflation was firft printed in one of our Author's earliest works , The present state of learning in Europe , 12mos No more my titles fhall my children tell , The 1759 .
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No more my titles fhall my children tell , The old buffoon will fit my name as well ; This day beyond its term my fate extends , For life is ended when our honour ends . THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION . A TALE . SECLUDED DED from domestic ...
No more my titles fhall my children tell , The old buffoon will fit my name as well ; This day beyond its term my fate extends , For life is ended when our honour ends . THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION . A TALE . SECLUDED DED from domestic ...
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Add too , what certain writers tell , With this he drives mens fouls to hell . Now to apply , begin we then ; His wand's a modern author's pen ; The ferpents round about it twin'd , Denote him of the reptile kind ; Denote the rage with ...
Add too , what certain writers tell , With this he drives mens fouls to hell . Now to apply , begin we then ; His wand's a modern author's pen ; The ferpents round about it twin'd , Denote him of the reptile kind ; Denote the rage with ...
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WHAT reception a poem may find , which has neither abuse , party , nor blank verse to support it , I cannot tell , nor am I folicitous to know . My aims are right.Without efponfing the caufe of any party , I have attempted to moderate ...
WHAT reception a poem may find , which has neither abuse , party , nor blank verse to support it , I cannot tell , nor am I folicitous to know . My aims are right.Without efponfing the caufe of any party , I have attempted to moderate ...
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... Thou tranfitory flow'r , alike undone By proud contempt , or favour's foft'ring fun , Still may thy blooms the changeful clime endure , I only would reprefs them to fecure : For just experience tells , in ev'ry foil , That those who ...
... Thou tranfitory flow'r , alike undone By proud contempt , or favour's foft'ring fun , Still may thy blooms the changeful clime endure , I only would reprefs them to fecure : For just experience tells , in ev'ry foil , That those who ...
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| Title | Poems and Plays |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | Messrs. Price, Sleater, 1785 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Oct 2008 |
| Length | 274 pages |
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