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... once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure in what contributes to increase the distemper . Like the tiger , that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh , the reader , who has once ...
... once infected with this disease , it can only find pleasure in what contributes to increase the distemper . Like the tiger , that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh , the reader , who has once ...
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... once with verse and resentment . I take advice ! and from whom ? You shall hear . First let me suppose , what may shortly be true , The company set , and the word to be , Loo ; All smirking , and pleasant , and big with adventure , And ...
... once with verse and resentment . I take advice ! and from whom ? You shall hear . First let me suppose , what may shortly be true , The company set , and the word to be , Loo ; All smirking , and pleasant , and big with adventure , And ...
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... once two combatants to join His warring troops , against the law of arms , Unless the wary foe was ever in alarms . Now the white Archer with his utmost force Bent the tough bow against the sable Horse , And drove him from the Queen ...
... once two combatants to join His warring troops , against the law of arms , Unless the wary foe was ever in alarms . Now the white Archer with his utmost force Bent the tough bow against the sable Horse , And drove him from the Queen ...
Contents
THE DESERTED VILLAGE | 16 |
Part of a Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius | 53 |
On Seeing Mrs perform in the Character | 59 |
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