The Book of Gems: Pomfret to BloomfieldSamuel Carter Hall Saunders and Otley, 1837 |
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... Thoughts 43 Paraphrase on Psalm XXIII 18 An Ode 789 17 From the Love of Fame 47 19 WATTS . Love on a Cross and a Throne False Greatness Few Happy Matches Earth and Heaven True Riches Looking Upward TICKELL . From Oxford 22335 21 Colin ...
... Thoughts 43 Paraphrase on Psalm XXIII 18 An Ode 789 17 From the Love of Fame 47 19 WATTS . Love on a Cross and a Throne False Greatness Few Happy Matches Earth and Heaven True Riches Looking Upward TICKELL . From Oxford 22335 21 Colin ...
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... , In which strong art with stronger nature joins , Must grant his fancy does the best excel ; His thoughts so tender , and express'd so well : With all those moderns , men of steady sense , 4 POMFRET . THE BIRTH OF VANESSA The Choice.
... , In which strong art with stronger nature joins , Must grant his fancy does the best excel ; His thoughts so tender , and express'd so well : With all those moderns , men of steady sense , 4 POMFRET . THE BIRTH OF VANESSA The Choice.
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... thoughts be such , She might not seem reserv'd , nor talk too much : That shews a want of judgment , and of sense ; More than enough is but impertinence . Her conduct regular , her mirth refin'd ; Civil to strangers , to her neighbours ...
... thoughts be such , She might not seem reserv'd , nor talk too much : That shews a want of judgment , and of sense ; More than enough is but impertinence . Her conduct regular , her mirth refin'd ; Civil to strangers , to her neighbours ...
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... thought intrudes , Less modest than the speech of prudes . * The Graces next would act their part , And show'd but little of their art ; Their work was half already done , The child with native beauty shone ; The outward form no help ...
... thought intrudes , Less modest than the speech of prudes . * The Graces next would act their part , And show'd but little of their art ; Their work was half already done , The child with native beauty shone ; The outward form no help ...
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... 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 courted ...
... 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 courted ...
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