The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... most learnedly amongst illiterate perfons , and makes a mighty pother about books and languages there , where he is fure to be admired , though not understood . But much of either would afford Το many that had 6 BUTLER'S POEMS.U .
... most learnedly amongst illiterate perfons , and makes a mighty pother about books and languages there , where he is fure to be admired , though not understood . But much of either would afford Το many that had 6 BUTLER'S POEMS.U .
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... most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies , and disparage 225 Their best and dearest friend , plum - porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose , And blafpheme custard through the nose . Th ' apoftles of this fierce religion , 230 Like ...
... most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies , and disparage 225 Their best and dearest friend , plum - porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose , And blafpheme custard through the nose . Th ' apoftles of this fierce religion , 230 Like ...
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... most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies , and disparage Their best and dearest friend , plum - porridge ; Fat pig and goofe itself oppofe , 225 And blafpheme custard through the nose . 230 Th ' apoftles of this fierce religion , Like ...
... most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies , and disparage Their best and dearest friend , plum - porridge ; Fat pig and goofe itself oppofe , 225 And blafpheme custard through the nose . 230 Th ' apoftles of this fierce religion , Like ...
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... most , Whom therefore thus do we accost . Thou that with ale , or viler liquors , Didft infpire Withers , Pryn , and Vickars , And force them , though it was in spite Of Nature , and their stars , to write ; Who ( as we find in fullen ...
... most , Whom therefore thus do we accost . Thou that with ale , or viler liquors , Didft infpire Withers , Pryn , and Vickars , And force them , though it was in spite Of Nature , and their stars , to write ; Who ( as we find in fullen ...
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... most beautiful and fatirical periphrafis for licentiouf- nefs , which is the idea the Author here intended to give us . Ver . 766. ] The King being driven from the Parlia- ment , no legal acts of Parliament could be made ; therefore ...
... most beautiful and fatirical periphrafis for licentiouf- nefs , which is the idea the Author here intended to give us . Ver . 766. ] The King being driven from the Parlia- ment , no legal acts of Parliament could be made ; therefore ...
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