Silver Poets of the Eighteenth CenturyArthur Pollard |
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... fancy'd worse.— Hardly at length he Silence broke , And faulter'd ev'ry Word he spoke ; Interpreting her Complaisance , Just as a Man sans Consequence . She railly'd well , he always knew , Her Manner now was something new ; And what ...
... fancy'd worse.— Hardly at length he Silence broke , And faulter'd ev'ry Word he spoke ; Interpreting her Complaisance , Just as a Man sans Consequence . She railly'd well , he always knew , Her Manner now was something new ; And what ...
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... fancy we can sit , To hear his out - of - fashion'd Wit ? But he takes up with younger Fokes , Who for his Wine will bear his Jokes : Faith , he must make his Stories shorter , Or change his Comrades once a Quarter : In half the Time ...
... fancy we can sit , To hear his out - of - fashion'd Wit ? But he takes up with younger Fokes , Who for his Wine will bear his Jokes : Faith , he must make his Stories shorter , Or change his Comrades once a Quarter : In half the Time ...
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... Fancy drest , Comes like a Bride so trim array'd , To wed with Doubt in Plato's Shade ! Youth of the quick uncheated Sight , Thy Walks , Observance , more invite ! O Thou , who lov'st that ampler Range , Where Life's wide Prospects ...
... Fancy drest , Comes like a Bride so trim array'd , To wed with Doubt in Plato's Shade ! Youth of the quick uncheated Sight , Thy Walks , Observance , more invite ! O Thou , who lov'st that ampler Range , Where Life's wide Prospects ...
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Horace Lib 2 Sat 6 | 28 |
A Satirical Elegy on the Death | 34 |
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