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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 231
by Nathan Drake - 1810 - 499 pages
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Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...

Literature - 1764 - 236 pages
...a (elf- complacent jutting air, It fmil'd, it finirk'd, it wriggled to the chair ; And, With fleek appearance and with ambling pace, And, type of vacant head, with vacant face, The Proteus H — 11 put in his modeft plea,— " Let favour i'peak for others, worth for me."— For who Jike...
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Poems, Volume 1

Charles Churchill - English poetry - 1766 - 388 pages
...Here give your votes, your int'reft here exert, " And let Succefs for once attend Defert." With fleek appearance, and with ambling' pace, And, type of vacant...head, with vacant face, The Proteus HILL put in his modeft plea, — " Let Favour fpeak for others, Worth for me." — For who, like him, his various powers...
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The Rosciad. The apology. Night. The prophecy of famine. An epistle to ...

Charles Churchill - 1768 - 386 pages
...type of vacant head, with vacant face, The Froteus HILL put in his modejt plea,— " Let Favour fpeak for others, Worth for me." — For who, like him, his various powers could call Into fo many fhapes, and mine in all ? Who could fo nobly grace the motley lift, Aftor, Infpeflor, Doftort...
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Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and ...

Charles Churchill - 1772 - 608 pages
...Here give your votes, your inl'reftiwr exert, " And let Succefs for once attend Defert." With fleek appearance, and with ambling pace' And, type of vacant head, with vacant face, fbe The Proteus HILL put in his mode/1 plea, " Let Favour fpeak for others, Worth for me."— For who,...
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The Rosciad. The apology. The prophecy of famine, a Scots pastoral. An ...

Charles Churchill - English poetry - 1774 - 246 pages
...your votes, your int'reft here exert, " And let Succefs for once attend Defert." .,;! .' " With fleek appearance, and with ambling pace, And, type .of vacant...head, with vacant face, The Proteus HILL put in his mtdeft plea,— " Let Favour fpeak for others, Worth for me."— For who, like him, his various powers...
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Poems: By Charles Churchill ... With Large Corrections and Additions. To ...

Charles Churchill - 1776 - 190 pages
...Here give your votes, your int'rcft here exert, " And let Succefs for once attend Defert." With (leek appearance, and with ambling pace, And, type of vacant head, with vacant face, The Proteus Hill puts in his mpdeft plea, " Let Favour fpeak for others, Worth for me."—- For who, like hirn, his...
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The Lady's Poetical Magazine: Or, Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 1

English periodicals - 1781 - 512 pages
...And let fuccefs, for once, attend defert." .., With fleek appearance, and with ambling pace, . 105 And type of vacant head with vacant face, The Proteus Hill put in his rtodeft plea : -. . i ' Let favour fpeak for others, worth for me.' For who, like him, his various...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 66

English poets - 1790 - 350 pages
...here exert, " And let fuccefs for once attend d^fert." With fleck appearance, and with ambling pa^e, And, type of vacant head, with vacant face, The Proteus Hill put in his madefl plea, — ." Let Favour fpeak for others, V/orth for me." — .For who, like him, his various...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 10

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...Here give your votes, your int'reft ten eiert, " And let fuccels for once attend defert." With fleck appearance, and with ambling pace, And, type of vacant...head, with vacant face, The Proteus Hill put in his mcJfJ! plea.— " Let favour fpeak for others, worth for me." — For who, like him, his various power*...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...Here give your votes, your int'reft here exert, And let fuccefs for once attend deferí." With fleck appearance, and with ambling pace, And, type of vacant...head, with vacant face, The Proteus Hill put in his modeft plea, — " Let favour fpeak for others, worth for me."— For who, like him, his various powers...
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