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Page 19
Nor let false friends seduce thy mind to fame , By arrogating Johnson's hostile name . Let father Flecknoe fire thy mind with praise And uncle Ogleby thy envy raise . Thou art my blood , where Johnson has no part : What share have we in ...
Nor let false friends seduce thy mind to fame , By arrogating Johnson's hostile name . Let father Flecknoe fire thy mind with praise And uncle Ogleby thy envy raise . Thou art my blood , where Johnson has no part : What share have we in ...
Page 55
Retire to some author improving and gay , And with sense like your own , set your mind for the day . At twelve you may walk , for at this time o ' the year , The sun , like your wit , is as mild as ' tis clear : But mark in the meadows ...
Retire to some author improving and gay , And with sense like your own , set your mind for the day . At twelve you may walk , for at this time o ' the year , The sun , like your wit , is as mild as ' tis clear : But mark in the meadows ...
Page 416
I may have had the brains of a dunce , girls ; I may have had the mind of a muff ; I may have been plain and deficient in the brain , But I did know a bustle - maker's stuff . I built bustles for the slender ; I built bustles for the ...
I may have had the brains of a dunce , girls ; I may have had the mind of a muff ; I may have been plain and deficient in the brain , But I did know a bustle - maker's stuff . I built bustles for the slender ; I built bustles for the ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Everyman Book of Light Verse |
| Editor | Robert Robinson |
| Publisher | Dent, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| ISBN | 0460045873, 9780460045872 |
| Length | 500 pages |
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