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Page 186
... dark closet , Those hangings with their worn - out graces , Long beards , long noses , and pale faces , Are such an antiquated scene , They overwhelm me with the spleen . Sir Humphrey , shooting in the dark , Makes answer quite beside ...
... dark closet , Those hangings with their worn - out graces , Long beards , long noses , and pale faces , Are such an antiquated scene , They overwhelm me with the spleen . Sir Humphrey , shooting in the dark , Makes answer quite beside ...
Page 187
... dark closet , Those hangings with their worn - out graces , Long beards , long noses , and pale faces , Are such an antiquated scene , They overwhelm me with the spleen . Sir Humphrey , shooting in the dark , Makes answer quite beside ...
... dark closet , Those hangings with their worn - out graces , Long beards , long noses , and pale faces , Are such an antiquated scene , They overwhelm me with the spleen . Sir Humphrey , shooting in the dark , Makes answer quite beside ...
Page 271
... dark in things divine . Full often too Our wayward intellect , the more we learn Of nature , overlooks her author more ; From instrumental causes proud to draw Conclusions retrograde , and mad mistake . But , if his Word once teach us ...
... dark in things divine . Full often too Our wayward intellect , the more we learn Of nature , overlooks her author more ; From instrumental causes proud to draw Conclusions retrograde , and mad mistake . But , if his Word once teach us ...
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ton | 13 |
The Yearly Distress or Tithing Time at Stock in | 154 |
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk | 160 |
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Aspasio beneath bids bless'd boast breath call'd cause charms death declension delight design'd distant divine docet dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fear feel flowers folly form'd frown give glory go snacks grace hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven honour hope Hophni and Phinehas hour JOHN GILPIN land latives learn'd liberty light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure plebeian poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapinis rapture rest rude sacred scene scenes as fair scorn seem'd shew shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound Stamp'd stream sweet taste Thaida thee theme thine thought toil tongue trifler truth Twas vex'd VINCENT BOURNE virtue voice waste whate'er wind wisdom wonder worth youth