The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 4John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... because all write , have still Th ' excufe for writing , and for writing ill.- But he is worst who ( beggarly ) doth chaw Others ' wit's fruits , and in his ravenous maw Rankly digefted , doth those things out - fpue As his own things ...
... because all write , have still Th ' excufe for writing , and for writing ill.- But he is worst who ( beggarly ) doth chaw Others ' wit's fruits , and in his ravenous maw Rankly digefted , doth those things out - fpue As his own things ...
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... because he doth know That she was there a thousand years ago . He loves the raggs fo , as we here obey The state - cloth where the prince fate yesterday . Grants to fuch brave loves will not be inthrall'd , But loves her only who at ...
... because he doth know That she was there a thousand years ago . He loves the raggs fo , as we here obey The state - cloth where the prince fate yesterday . Grants to fuch brave loves will not be inthrall'd , But loves her only who at ...
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... because delay'd ; That offices are entail'd , and that there are Perpetuities of them lafting as far At the last day ; and that great officers Do with the pirates fhare and Dunkirkers . Who waftes in meat , in clothes , in horse , he ...
... because delay'd ; That offices are entail'd , and that there are Perpetuities of them lafting as far At the last day ; and that great officers Do with the pirates fhare and Dunkirkers . Who waftes in meat , in clothes , in horse , he ...
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... because thou haft A little fpice or amber in thy tafte ? Because thou art not frozen , art thou warm ? Sceft thou all good , becaufe thou feest no harm ? The earth doth in her inner bowels hold stuff well difpos'd , and which would fain ...
... because thou haft A little fpice or amber in thy tafte ? Because thou art not frozen , art thou warm ? Sceft thou all good , becaufe thou feest no harm ? The earth doth in her inner bowels hold stuff well difpos'd , and which would fain ...
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... because his favours bend To virtue , to the which they all pretend ? Thou haft no fuch , yet here was this , and more ; An earnest lover , wife then , and before . Our little Cupid hath fued livery , And is no more in his minority ; He ...
... because his favours bend To virtue , to the which they all pretend ? Thou haft no fuch , yet here was this , and more ; An earnest lover , wife then , and before . Our little Cupid hath fued livery , And is no more in his minority ; He ...
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