The Book of Gems: Pomfret to BloomfieldSamuel Carter Hall Saunders and Otley, 1837 |
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... never in- duce a man of sense to approve of it ; and if it has them , Tom Piper's is as good as my Lord Duke's . " The principal other poems of Pomfret are- " Love Triumphant over Reason ; " " Cruelty and Lust , " founded on the well ...
... never in- duce a man of sense to approve of it ; and if it has them , Tom Piper's is as good as my Lord Duke's . " The principal other poems of Pomfret are- " Love Triumphant over Reason ; " " Cruelty and Lust , " founded on the well ...
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... never been excelled . We think them also , in conversational humour , in homely but powerful satire , and in a witty accuracy and exactness of description , unquestionably first rate . Nor are they wanting , as the poems to Stella and ...
... never been excelled . We think them also , in conversational humour , in homely but powerful satire , and in a witty accuracy and exactness of description , unquestionably first rate . Nor are they wanting , as the poems to Stella and ...
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... never thought an honour done him , Because a peer was proud to own him ; Would rather slip aside , and choose To talk with wits in dirty shoes ; And scorn the tools with stars and garters , So often seen caressing Chartres . He never ...
... never thought an honour done him , Because a peer was proud to own him ; Would rather slip aside , and choose To talk with wits in dirty shoes ; And scorn the tools with stars and garters , So often seen caressing Chartres . He never ...
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... never stood in awe before ' em . He follow'd David's lesson just ; In princes never put his trust : And , would you make him truly sour , Provoke him with a slave in power . The Irish senate if you nam'd , With what impatience he ...
... never stood in awe before ' em . He follow'd David's lesson just ; In princes never put his trust : And , would you make him truly sour , Provoke him with a slave in power . The Irish senate if you nam'd , With what impatience he ...
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... never saw his betters ; Lords , knights , and squires , were all his humble debtors ; And under hand and seal the Irish nation Were forc'd to own to him their obligation . He that could once have half a kingdom bought , In half a minute ...
... never saw his betters ; Lords , knights , and squires , were all his humble debtors ; And under hand and seal the Irish nation Were forc'd to own to him their obligation . He that could once have half a kingdom bought , In half a minute ...
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