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... fhould , like a polifh'd razor keen , Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or feen . Thine is an oyfter - knife , that hacks and hews . The rage , but not the talent of abuse ; Aud is in hate what love is in the ftews ; ' Tis the ...
... fhould , like a polifh'd razor keen , Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or feen . Thine is an oyfter - knife , that hacks and hews . The rage , but not the talent of abuse ; Aud is in hate what love is in the ftews ; ' Tis the ...
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... fhould we lie ? ) The Queen of Midas flept , and fo may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , No creature fmarts fo little as a fool . 84 Let peals of laughter , Codrus ! round thee break , Thou unconcern'd canft hear the ...
... fhould we lie ? ) The Queen of Midas flept , and fo may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , No creature fmarts fo little as a fool . 84 Let peals of laughter , Codrus ! round thee break , Thou unconcern'd canft hear the ...
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... fhould dare to busy himself with politics . Raciue had the weakness to ake this anger fo much to heart , that it brought on a low fever which haftened his death . The Duchefs of Queensberry would not fo have betrayed her poetical friend ...
... fhould dare to busy himself with politics . Raciue had the weakness to ake this anger fo much to heart , that it brought on a low fever which haftened his death . The Duchefs of Queensberry would not fo have betrayed her poetical friend ...
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... fhould have been deprived of it , and have been thrown , as an useless thing , into a cavern by Mount Taygetus . " VIR 354. Abuse , on all he lov'd , or lov'd him , fpread , ] Namely , on the Duke of Buckingham , the Earl of Burlington ...
... fhould have been deprived of it , and have been thrown , as an useless thing , into a cavern by Mount Taygetus . " VIR 354. Abuse , on all he lov'd , or lov'd him , fpread , ] Namely , on the Duke of Buckingham , the Earl of Burlington ...
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... fhould ail ' em ? F. A hundred fmart in Timon and in Balaam : The fewer ftill you name , you wound the more ; Bond is but one , but Harpax is a score . P. • Each mortal has his pleasure : none deny 45 Scarfdale his bottle , Darty his ...
... fhould ail ' em ? F. A hundred fmart in Timon and in Balaam : The fewer ftill you name , you wound the more ; Bond is but one , but Harpax is a score . P. • Each mortal has his pleasure : none deny 45 Scarfdale his bottle , Darty his ...
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