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... Nature's first fruits in an eternal race ? Let second brothers , and poor nestlings , Whom more injurious nature later brings Into the naked world ; let them assaine To get hard pennyworths with so bootless pain . Tush ! what care I to ...
... Nature's first fruits in an eternal race ? Let second brothers , and poor nestlings , Whom more injurious nature later brings Into the naked world ; let them assaine To get hard pennyworths with so bootless pain . Tush ! what care I to ...
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... nature pleads , that he Should only rule who most resembles me . Shadwell alone my perfect image bears , I Mature in dulness from his tender years ; - Shadwell alone , of all my sons , is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity . The ...
... nature pleads , that he Should only rule who most resembles me . Shadwell alone my perfect image bears , I Mature in dulness from his tender years ; - Shadwell alone , of all my sons , is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity . The ...
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... nature , another so callous and insensible a member , as the world's posteriors , whether you apply to it the toe or the birch . Besides , most of our late satirists seem to lie under a sort of mistake , that because nettles have the ...
... nature , another so callous and insensible a member , as the world's posteriors , whether you apply to it the toe or the birch . Besides , most of our late satirists seem to lie under a sort of mistake , that because nettles have the ...
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