Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2C. Dilly, 1791 - English poetry |
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... fool ; Who laid him down , and bask'd him in the fun , And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms →→ In good fet terms - and yet a motley fool . " Good - morrow , fool , ' quoth I : No , Sir , ' quoth he , [ fortune : * Call me not fool ...
... fool ; Who laid him down , and bask'd him in the fun , And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms →→ In good fet terms - and yet a motley fool . " Good - morrow , fool , ' quoth I : No , Sir , ' quoth he , [ fortune : * Call me not fool ...
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... Fools in Love . Ri . None are fo furely caught , when they are catch'd , As wit turn'd fool : folly in wifdom hatch'd , Hath wifdom's warrant , and the help of fchool , And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool . Rof . The blood of ...
... Fools in Love . Ri . None are fo furely caught , when they are catch'd , As wit turn'd fool : folly in wifdom hatch'd , Hath wifdom's warrant , and the help of fchool , And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool . Rof . The blood of ...
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... fools . But fish not with this melancholy bait , For this fool gudgeon , this opinion . Focofe Satire on Silence . Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dry'd , and a maid not vendable . Generous and difinterested Friendship ...
... fools . But fish not with this melancholy bait , For this fool gudgeon , this opinion . Focofe Satire on Silence . Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dry'd , and a maid not vendable . Generous and difinterested Friendship ...
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