Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 9Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... Thought Sharke , this well agrees With my most wofull stomackes state , So Jacke with cheese comes in , And that was soon devowred up , Even as the beefe had bin . Being thus dispatcht , he layes downe Jacke A peny for the shot : Sir ...
... Thought Sharke , this well agrees With my most wofull stomackes state , So Jacke with cheese comes in , And that was soon devowred up , Even as the beefe had bin . Being thus dispatcht , he layes downe Jacke A peny for the shot : Sir ...
Page xvii
... thought , One line , which dying he could wish to blot . " not the exaggerated praise he has bestowed upon Pope , " For though not sweeter his own Homer sings , Yet is his life the more endearing song . " If he had frailties and ...
... thought , One line , which dying he could wish to blot . " not the exaggerated praise he has bestowed upon Pope , " For though not sweeter his own Homer sings , Yet is his life the more endearing song . " If he had frailties and ...
Page 26
... thought and wit refin'd may hope To please an age , in aimless folly sunk , And sliding swift into the depth of vice ; " Consuming Pleasure leads the gay and young Thro ' their vain round ; and venal Faith the old , Or Avarice , mean of ...
... thought and wit refin'd may hope To please an age , in aimless folly sunk , And sliding swift into the depth of vice ; " Consuming Pleasure leads the gay and young Thro ' their vain round ; and venal Faith the old , Or Avarice , mean of ...
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