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... BLAIZE GOOD people all , with one accord , Lament for Madam BLAIZE , Who never wanted a good word- From those who spoke her praise . The needy seldom pass'd her door , And always found her kind ; She freely lent to all the poor , - Who ...
... BLAIZE GOOD people all , with one accord , Lament for Madam BLAIZE , Who never wanted a good word- From those who spoke her praise . The needy seldom pass'd her door , And always found her kind ; She freely lent to all the poor , - Who ...
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... BLAIZE . The publication in February , 1751 , of Gray's Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard had set a fashion in poetry which long continued . Goldsmith , who considered that work ' a very fine poem , but overloaded with epithet ...
... BLAIZE . The publication in February , 1751 , of Gray's Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard had set a fashion in poetry which long continued . Goldsmith , who considered that work ' a very fine poem , but overloaded with epithet ...
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... Blaize ( p . 47 ) it owes something of its origin to Goldsmith's antipathy to fashionable elegiacs , some- thing also to the story of M. de la Palisse . As regards mad dogs , its author seems to have been more reasonable than many of ...
... Blaize ( p . 47 ) it owes something of its origin to Goldsmith's antipathy to fashionable elegiacs , some- thing also to the story of M. de la Palisse . As regards mad dogs , its author seems to have been more reasonable than many of ...
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