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[ " Close be your language ; let your sense be clear , Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear ; From grave to jovial you must change with art , Now play the critic's , now the poet's part ; In raillery assume a graver air ...
[ " Close be your language ; let your sense be clear , Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear ; From grave to jovial you must change with art , Now play the critic's , now the poet's part ; In raillery assume a graver air ...
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As the last image of that troubled heap , When sense subsides , and fancy sports in sleep ( Though past the recollection of the thought ) , Becomes the stuff of which our dream is wrought ; Something as dim to our internal view ...
As the last image of that troubled heap , When sense subsides , and fancy sports in sleep ( Though past the recollection of the thought ) , Becomes the stuff of which our dream is wrought ; Something as dim to our internal view ...
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Flavia ' s a wit , has too much sense to pray ; 10 To toast our wants and wishes is her way ; Nor asks of God , but of her stars , to give The mighty blessing , “ while we live , to live . ” Then all for death , that opiate of the soul ...
Flavia ' s a wit , has too much sense to pray ; 10 To toast our wants and wishes is her way ; Nor asks of God , but of her stars , to give The mighty blessing , “ while we live , to live . ” Then all for death , that opiate of the soul ...
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The generous god , who wit and gold refines , And ripens spirits as he ripens mines , Kept dross for duchesses , the world shall know it , To you gave sense , good humour , and a poet . 280 285 290 26 [ The allusion to the fall of China ...
The generous god , who wit and gold refines , And ripens spirits as he ripens mines , Kept dross for duchesses , the world shall know it , To you gave sense , good humour , and a poet . 280 285 290 26 [ The allusion to the fall of China ...
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Bellenden , one of the maids of honour , bore away the palm of beauty , and her colleague , Miss Lepell , that of grace and wit , Mrs. Howard's good sense , amiability , and sweetness temper and manners ...
Bellenden , one of the maids of honour , bore away the palm of beauty , and her colleague , Miss Lepell , that of grace and wit , Mrs. Howard's good sense , amiability , and sweetness temper and manners ...
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