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Page 21
... scarce make any other answer than that I sincerely be lieve what I have written ; that I have taken all possible pains , in my country excursions , for these four or five years past , to be certain of what I allege ; and that all my ...
... scarce make any other answer than that I sincerely be lieve what I have written ; that I have taken all possible pains , in my country excursions , for these four or five years past , to be certain of what I allege ; and that all my ...
Page 47
... scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating ; I had thoughts , in my chambers , to place it in view , To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtù ; As in some Irish houses , where things are so so , One gammon of ...
... scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating ; I had thoughts , in my chambers , to place it in view , To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtù ; As in some Irish houses , where things are so so , One gammon of ...
Page 53
... Scarce half alive , oppress'd with many a year , What in the name of dotage drives me here ? A time there was , when glory was my guide , Nor force nor fraud could turn my steps aside ; Unaw'd by pow'r , and unappall'd by fear , With ...
... Scarce half alive , oppress'd with many a year , What in the name of dotage drives me here ? A time there was , when glory was my guide , Nor force nor fraud could turn my steps aside ; Unaw'd by pow'r , and unappall'd by fear , With ...
Page 93
... scarce exhibit till the sun goes down . Both prone to change , no settled limits fix , And sure the folks of both are lunatics . But in this parallel my best pretence is , That mortals visit both to find their senses . To this strange ...
... scarce exhibit till the sun goes down . Both prone to change , no settled limits fix , And sure the folks of both are lunatics . But in this parallel my best pretence is , That mortals visit both to find their senses . To this strange ...
Page 138
... scarce knew , and that he called an act of ex- alted mu - mu - munificence ; ay , that was the name he gave it . Sir Will . And upon that I proceed , as my last effort , though with very little hopes to reclaim him . That very fellow ...
... scarce knew , and that he called an act of ex- alted mu - mu - munificence ; ay , that was the name he gave it . Sir Will . And upon that I proceed , as my last effort , though with very little hopes to reclaim him . That very fellow ...
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