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Page 280 - When beasts could speak, (the learned say They still can do so every day,) It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men. It happen'd, when a plague broke out, (Which therefore made them more devout...
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets: Swift Volume 40 of The Works of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 40 of The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Henry Hughs |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | H. Hughs, 1779 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Oct 2005 |
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