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Pagina 15
... sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judged a man of sense could scarce do worse , Than caper in the morris - dance of verse . B. Thus reputation is a spur to wit , And some wits flag through fear of losing it . Give ...
... sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judged a man of sense could scarce do worse , Than caper in the morris - dance of verse . B. Thus reputation is a spur to wit , And some wits flag through fear of losing it . Give ...
Pagina 16
... sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him who rears a poem lank and long , To him who strains his all into a song ; Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there ...
... sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him who rears a poem lank and long , To him who strains his all into a song ; Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there ...
Pagina 25
... sounds , though sweet and well combined , And lenient as soft opiates to the mind , Leave vice and folly unsubdued behind , Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; " Tis he , the Nimrod ...
... sounds , though sweet and well combined , And lenient as soft opiates to the mind , Leave vice and folly unsubdued behind , Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; " Tis he , the Nimrod ...
Pagina 26
... sounds --- Your Reverence , or Your No. But his own engagement binds him fast ; Or , if it does not , brands him to the last What atheists call him --- a designing knave , A mere church juggler , hypocrite , and slave . Oh , laugh or ...
... sounds --- Your Reverence , or Your No. But his own engagement binds him fast ; Or , if it does not , brands him to the last What atheists call him --- a designing knave , A mere church juggler , hypocrite , and slave . Oh , laugh or ...
Pagina 50
... Sounds for the poor , but sounds alike for all : Kings are invited , and would kings obey , No slaves on earth more welcome were than they : But royalty , nobility , and state , Are such a dead preponderating weight , That endless bliss ...
... Sounds for the poor , but sounds alike for all : Kings are invited , and would kings obey , No slaves on earth more welcome were than they : But royalty , nobility , and state , Are such a dead preponderating weight , That endless bliss ...
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