The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 |
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... Some jocund measure or love - ditty , foon In fprightlier key and happier accent fung To the kind wench at home , whofe ruddy cheeks Shall thaw the icy winter on his lips , And melt his frozen features into joy . But who , that ever ...
... Some jocund measure or love - ditty , foon In fprightlier key and happier accent fung To the kind wench at home , whofe ruddy cheeks Shall thaw the icy winter on his lips , And melt his frozen features into joy . But who , that ever ...
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... some high mountain's top The careful fhepherd counts his ftraggling flock , So will we take one patient last furvey Of this unquiet , babbling , anxious world ; We'll fcan it with a calm but curious eye ; Silence and folitude are all ...
... some high mountain's top The careful fhepherd counts his ftraggling flock , So will we take one patient last furvey Of this unquiet , babbling , anxious world ; We'll fcan it with a calm but curious eye ; Silence and folitude are all ...
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... some folks are , when I fall into company with a proud fellow creature , I feel no other impulse than of pity , with now and then a small propenfity to titter , for it would be downright rudeness to laugh in a man's face on fuch an ...
... some folks are , when I fall into company with a proud fellow creature , I feel no other impulse than of pity , with now and then a small propenfity to titter , for it would be downright rudeness to laugh in a man's face on fuch an ...
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... Some learned men , who have examined it , give it to Paufanias , others to Elian ; fome contend for Suidas , others for Libanius ; but most agree in afcribing it to fome one of the Greek fophifts , fo that it is not to be disguised that ...
... Some learned men , who have examined it , give it to Paufanias , others to Elian ; fome contend for Suidas , others for Libanius ; but most agree in afcribing it to fome one of the Greek fophifts , fo that it is not to be disguised that ...
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... Some , who are ranked in the old class of comic writers , continued to compofe for the ftage , as we have already inftanced ; it may well be prefumed that they at least drooped the wing , and flagged under the preffure of un ...
... Some , who are ranked in the old class of comic writers , continued to compofe for the ftage , as we have already inftanced ; it may well be prefumed that they at least drooped the wing , and flagged under the preffure of un ...
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