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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for ... - Page 185
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An Introduction to the Study of English Literature;: Comprising ...

Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...good sense preserve what beauty gains: That men may say, when we the front-box grace, Behold the first in virtue as in face ! Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old-age away; * Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains ; That шеи may say, when we the front box grace, Behold the first ence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might D dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains ; That men may say, when we the front-box grace, Behold the first in virtue as in face ! Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...good sense preserve what beauty gains: That men may say, when we the front-box grace, Behold the first in virtue as in face! Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age, away ; Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Alexander Pope - 1885 - 68 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains, 653 That men may say, when we the front box grace, ' Behold the first in virtue as in face ! ' Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Chann'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away ; 655 Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed., with Notes and Introductory Memoir

Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains : That men may say, when we the front-box grace : 'Behold the first in virtue as in face!' . Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old-age away ; < Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir and Notes

Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains : That men may say, when we the front-box grace, Behold the first in virtue as in face ! Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old-age away ; Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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Representative English Literature from Chaucer to Tennyson: Selected and ...

Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains, That men may say, when we the front box grace, ' Behold the first in virtue as in face ! ' Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm 'd the smallpox, or chns'd old age away ; 660 Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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Selections from Pope's Works: An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock ...

Alexander Pope - 1893 - 176 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains : That men may say, when we the front-box grace : ' Behold the first in virtue as in face !' Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old-age away ; 20 Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains: That men may say, when we the front-box grace: 'Behold the first in virtue as in face!' Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old-age away ; 10 Who would not scorn what housewife's...
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