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... gold fittings . The only poetry I have ventured to attempt of late years has been a few translations from Martial , Petrarch , and Schiller , for various volumes of my Standard and other Libraries , which have now become the property of ...
... gold fittings . The only poetry I have ventured to attempt of late years has been a few translations from Martial , Petrarch , and Schiller , for various volumes of my Standard and other Libraries , which have now become the property of ...
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... gold , And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks ; Arm it in rags , a pigmy's straw doth pierce it . Our purses shall be proud , our garments poor , For ' t is the mind that makes the body rich : And as the sun breaks through the ...
... gold , And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks ; Arm it in rags , a pigmy's straw doth pierce it . Our purses shall be proud , our garments poor , For ' t is the mind that makes the body rich : And as the sun breaks through the ...
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... gold To those who write as I write now ; Not to mind where they go , or how , - Through ditch , through bog , o'er hedge and stile ; Make it but worth the reader's while , And keep a passage fair and plain , Always to bring him back ...
... gold To those who write as I write now ; Not to mind where they go , or how , - Through ditch , through bog , o'er hedge and stile ; Make it but worth the reader's while , And keep a passage fair and plain , Always to bring him back ...
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... gold , yet weep for want of bread . Oh cursed lust of gold ! when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds ; Young , N.T. First starv'd in this , then damn'd in that to come . Blair , Grave . The lust of gold succeeds ...
... gold , yet weep for want of bread . Oh cursed lust of gold ! when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds ; Young , N.T. First starv'd in this , then damn'd in that to come . Blair , Grave . The lust of gold succeeds ...
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... gold , And be his avarice the fiend that damns him ! Murphy , Alzuma . A thirst for gold , The beggar's vice , which can but overwhelm The meanest soul . So for a good old - gentlemanly vice , I think I must take up with avarice . Byron ...
... gold , And be his avarice the fiend that damns him ! Murphy , Alzuma . A thirst for gold , The beggar's vice , which can but overwhelm The meanest soul . So for a good old - gentlemanly vice , I think I must take up with avarice . Byron ...
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