The Works of the English Poets: SwiftH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... true contempt for things below , Nor prize your life for other ends Than merely to oblige your friends ; Your former actions claim their part , And join to fortify your heart . For Virtue in her daily race , Like Janus , bears a double ...
... true contempt for things below , Nor prize your life for other ends Than merely to oblige your friends ; Your former actions claim their part , And join to fortify your heart . For Virtue in her daily race , Like Janus , bears a double ...
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... true , was not in Dr. Swift's time afcertained with any degree of precifion . Ireland even to this day " remains fuper- " ftitiously devoted to her antient history , " and " wraps " herself in the gloom of her own legendary annals ...
... true , was not in Dr. Swift's time afcertained with any degree of precifion . Ireland even to this day " remains fuper- " ftitiously devoted to her antient history , " and " wraps " herself in the gloom of her own legendary annals ...
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... true , then how much more When you have nam'd at least a score Of courtiers , each in their degree , If poffible , as good as he ? Or take it in a different view . 1 afk ( if what you say be true ) If you affirm the present age Deferves ...
... true , then how much more When you have nam'd at least a score Of courtiers , each in their degree , If poffible , as good as he ? Or take it in a different view . 1 afk ( if what you say be true ) If you affirm the present age Deferves ...
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... true : All thefe praises are your due . You , like fome acute philofopher , Every fault have drawn a glofs over ; Placing in the strongest light All your virtues to my fight . Though you lead a blameless life , Are an humble prudent ...
... true : All thefe praises are your due . You , like fome acute philofopher , Every fault have drawn a glofs over ; Placing in the strongest light All your virtues to my fight . Though you lead a blameless life , Are an humble prudent ...
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... true ! MARBLE - HILL .. My houfe was built but for a fhow , My lady's empty pockets know ; And now the will not have a fhilling , To raise the stairs , or build the cielings For all the courtly madams round Now pay four fhillings in the ...
... true ! MARBLE - HILL .. My houfe was built but for a fhow , My lady's empty pockets know ; And now the will not have a fhilling , To raise the stairs , or build the cielings For all the courtly madams round Now pay four fhillings in the ...
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