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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Page 215
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 41

British poets - 1822 - 276 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 but a rage to lire. Turn then from wits, and look on Sirao's mate; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase me lone miser, 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 Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 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 Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 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 British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 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...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 mend», Because she 's honest,...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; U itb 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 eo meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 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 Simon's mate ; No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate : Or her that...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 18

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...great fluctuations of this deep being quieted by degrees, the waters retired. Burnet. You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. Pope. Then may his soul its free-born rage enjoy Give deed to will, and ev'ry pow'r employ. Bane. The...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 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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