Poems and PlaysMessrs. Price, Sleater, 1785 - 274 pages |
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... things carry'd ; Mifs frown'd , and blufh'd , and then was - married . 20 Need we expofe to vulgar fight , The raptures of the bridal night ? Need we intrude on hallow'd ground , Or draw the curtains clos'd around ? Let it fuffice ...
... things carry'd ; Mifs frown'd , and blufh'd , and then was - married . 20 Need we expofe to vulgar fight , The raptures of the bridal night ? Need we intrude on hallow'd ground , Or draw the curtains clos'd around ? Let it fuffice ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. Could any curtain lectures bring To decency fo fine a thing ? In short , by night , ' twas fits or fretting ; By day , ' twas gadding or coquetting . Fond to be feen , fhe kept a bevy , 50 Of powder'd coxcombs at her ...
Oliver Goldsmith. Could any curtain lectures bring To decency fo fine a thing ? In short , by night , ' twas fits or fretting ; By day , ' twas gadding or coquetting . Fond to be feen , fhe kept a bevy , 50 Of powder'd coxcombs at her ...
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... things as trifles at beft ) told me , with his * The Friar of Orders Gray , Reliq . of Anc , Poetry , vol . 3. p . 243 . ufual good humour , the next time I saw him [ 11 ] Letter, addressed to the Printer of the St James's Chronicle II.
... things as trifles at beft ) told me , with his * The Friar of Orders Gray , Reliq . of Anc , Poetry , vol . 3. p . 243 . ufual good humour , the next time I saw him [ 11 ] Letter, addressed to the Printer of the St James's Chronicle II.
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... things , " More trifling ftill than they . " And what is friendship but a name , " A charm that lulls to fleep ; " A fhade that follows wealth or fame , 75 " And leaves the wretch to weep C ? " And love is still an emptier found , " THE ...
... things , " More trifling ftill than they . " And what is friendship but a name , " A charm that lulls to fleep ; " A fhade that follows wealth or fame , 75 " And leaves the wretch to weep C ? " And love is still an emptier found , " THE ...
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... thing , who wants to be thought a bold man , having loft the character of a wife one . Him they dignify with the name of poet ; his tawdry lampoons are called fatires , his turbulence is said to be force , and his phrenzy fire . WHAT ...
... thing , who wants to be thought a bold man , having loft the character of a wife one . Him they dignify with the name of poet ; his tawdry lampoons are called fatires , his turbulence is said to be force , and his phrenzy fire . WHAT ...
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