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... escape th ' impending famine , often scared As oft return , a pert voracious kind . Clean riddance quickly made , one only care Remains to each , the fearch of funny nook , Or Or fhed impervious to the blaft . Refign'd To fad [ 184 ]
... escape th ' impending famine , often scared As oft return , a pert voracious kind . Clean riddance quickly made , one only care Remains to each , the fearch of funny nook , Or Or fhed impervious to the blaft . Refign'd To fad [ 184 ]
Page 211
... , plunging in purfuit of death . But ' ere he gain the comfortless repose He feeks , an acquiefcence of his foul In heav'n - renouncing exile , he endures- What does P 2 In [ 211 ] A clear escape from tyrannizing luft, ...
... , plunging in purfuit of death . But ' ere he gain the comfortless repose He feeks , an acquiefcence of his foul In heav'n - renouncing exile , he endures- What does P 2 In [ 211 ] A clear escape from tyrannizing luft, ...
Page 310
... escape , What fums he lost at play , and how he fold Watch , feals , and all , ' till all his pranks are told . Retracing thus his frolics ( ' tis a name That palliates deeds of folly and of shame ) He gives the local biafs all its fway ...
... escape , What fums he lost at play , and how he fold Watch , feals , and all , ' till all his pranks are told . Retracing thus his frolics ( ' tis a name That palliates deeds of folly and of shame ) He gives the local biafs all its fway ...
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