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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Page 215
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...too much Quicknefs ever to be taught ; With tod much Thinking to have common Thought : You purchafe Pain with all that Joy can give, And die of nothing but a Rage to live, 100 Turn then from Wits ; and look on Simo's Mate, No Afs fo meek, no Afs fo obflinate. Or her, that...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought; You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing...Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate ; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that owns her faults but never mends, Because she's honest,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...quickness ever to be taught ; L With too much thinking to have common thought; '-'*'. You purchase pain with all that joy can give, '!' And die of nothing...rage to live. "* Turn then from wits, and look on Slum's mate; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : **' Or her that owns her faults but never mends,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...too much quickness ever to be tanght ; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. 100 Turn then from wits ; and look on Simo's mate. No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that...
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Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Issues 77-79

Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught; with too much thinking to have common thought ; you purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. 100 Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate; no ass so meek, no ass so obstinate; or her that...
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Poems

Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught; with too much thinking to have common thought ; you purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. 100 Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate; no ass so meek, no ass so obstinate; or her that...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. 1 00 Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase h spake ; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name...Whate'er I saw. ' Thou Sun,' said I, ' fair light, And Slum's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that owns her faults, but never mends, Because...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought . You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing...a rage to live. Turn then from wits ; and look on Simu's mate, No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that owns her faults, but never mends, Because...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought; You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing...live. Turn then from wits, and look on Simo's mate; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that owns her faults, but never mends, Because she 's honest,...
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