Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin |
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... Spleen . An Epistle to Mr. Cuthbert Jackson On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers 310 317 ADDISON . The Seeker ... ib . A Letter from Italy to the Right Hon . Charles Lord Halifax , in the year The Grotto . Written by Mr. Green , under ...
... Spleen . An Epistle to Mr. Cuthbert Jackson On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers 310 317 ADDISON . The Seeker ... ib . A Letter from Italy to the Right Hon . Charles Lord Halifax , in the year The Grotto . Written by Mr. Green , under ...
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... spleen or vapors meant . Of wine she never tasted through the year , But white and black was all her homely cheer : Brown bread , and milk , ( but first she skimm'd her bowls ) vain , To wish their vile resemblance may remain ! And ...
... spleen or vapors meant . Of wine she never tasted through the year , But white and black was all her homely cheer : Brown bread , and milk , ( but first she skimm'd her bowls ) vain , To wish their vile resemblance may remain ! And ...
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... spleen to cure its own . Those sacred Virgins whom the bards revere Tun'd all her voice , and shed a sweetness there , To make her sense with double charms abound , Or make her lively nonsense please by sound . To dress the maid , the ...
... spleen to cure its own . Those sacred Virgins whom the bards revere Tun'd all her voice , and shed a sweetness there , To make her sense with double charms abound , Or make her lively nonsense please by sound . To dress the maid , the ...
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... spleen's imagin'd pains , Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease , Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home - spun dress in simple neatness lies , And for no glaring equipage she sighs ...
... spleen's imagin'd pains , Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease , Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home - spun dress in simple neatness lies , And for no glaring equipage she sighs ...
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... Spleen . " He passed his read when young , he did not forget . The austerity life in celibacy , and died in 1737 , at the early age in which he was educated had the effect of inspiring of forty - one , in lodgings in Gracechurch ...
... Spleen . " He passed his read when young , he did not forget . The austerity life in celibacy , and died in 1737 , at the early age in which he was educated had the effect of inspiring of forty - one , in lodgings in Gracechurch ...
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