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" With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; 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 live. "
Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry - Page 215
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase nd Acȶ / wit« ; and look on Simo's mate, N'.i ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that owns her faults,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase ve, From the pure empyrean where lie sits High thron'd...height, bent down his eye His own works and their works ass во meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, that owns her faults, but never rnends, Because she's honest,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought : You purchase th' indignant ram. Behold where bound, and of its...needy man, that all-depending lord, How meek, hoiv pat ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Or her, lhat owns her faults, but never mends. Because she 's honest,...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase s 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: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the ...

Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 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 notes and illustrations, by ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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. Revised and arranged expressly for the ...

Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase one virtuous touch The arch-chymie 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. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 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 ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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 ; On her that owns her faults, but never mends, Because she's honest,...
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