The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... face ; If smiling peeresses , and simpering peers , Encompassing his throne a few short years ; If the gilt carriage and the pamper'd steed , That wants no driving , and disdains the lead ; If guards , mechanically form'd in ranks ...
... face ; If smiling peeresses , and simpering peers , Encompassing his throne a few short years ; If the gilt carriage and the pamper'd steed , That wants no driving , and disdains the lead ; If guards , mechanically form'd in ranks ...
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... burst his prison door , And set plebeian thousands in a roar , When he usurp❜d Authority's just place , And dared to look his master in the face ; When the rude rabble's watchword was- -destroy , And blazing 30 TABLE TALK .
... burst his prison door , And set plebeian thousands in a roar , When he usurp❜d Authority's just place , And dared to look his master in the face ; When the rude rabble's watchword was- -destroy , And blazing 30 TABLE TALK .
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... face , He stood , as some inimitable hand Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand . No sycophant or slave , that dared oppose Her sacred cause , but trembled when he rose ; And every venal stickler for the yoke Felt himself crush'd ...
... face , He stood , as some inimitable hand Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand . No sycophant or slave , that dared oppose Her sacred cause , but trembled when he rose ; And every venal stickler for the yoke Felt himself crush'd ...
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... name upon a lie just made , To turn a penny in the way of trade ; When Avarice starves ( and never hides his face ) Two or three millions of the human race , And not a tongue inquires , how , where , D 2 TABLE TALK . 33.
... name upon a lie just made , To turn a penny in the way of trade ; When Avarice starves ( and never hides his face ) Two or three millions of the human race , And not a tongue inquires , how , where , D 2 TABLE TALK . 33.
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... face , Without the smile , the sweetness , or the grace ; The dark and sullen humour of the time Judged every effort of the Muse a crime ; Verse , in the finest mould of fancy cast , Was lumber in an age so void of taste ; But , when ...
... face , Without the smile , the sweetness , or the grace ; The dark and sullen humour of the time Judged every effort of the Muse a crime ; Verse , in the finest mould of fancy cast , Was lumber in an age so void of taste ; But , when ...
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