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... hands of his uncle , a vintner , near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the school , took him , when he was well advanced in ...
... hands of his uncle , a vintner , near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the school , took him , when he was well advanced in ...
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... hand . Tickell , in his " Prospect of Peace , " has the same hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same ...
... hand . Tickell , in his " Prospect of Peace , " has the same hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same ...
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... hand , and let me hear thy voice , Nay , quickly speak to me , and let me hear Thy voice my own affrights me with ... hands , and beats her breast , And tears her useless girdle from her waist ! Hear the sad murmurs of her sighing doves ...
... hand , and let me hear thy voice , Nay , quickly speak to me , and let me hear Thy voice my own affrights me with ... hands , and beats her breast , And tears her useless girdle from her waist ! Hear the sad murmurs of her sighing doves ...
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... hands , Encompass'd all the mingled mass of seas and lands ; And , having heav'd aloft the ponderous sphere , He launch'd the world , to float in ambient air . Of his irregular poems , that to Mrs. Arabella Hunt CONGREVE . 29.
... hands , Encompass'd all the mingled mass of seas and lands ; And , having heav'd aloft the ponderous sphere , He launch'd the world , to float in ambient air . Of his irregular poems , that to Mrs. Arabella Hunt CONGREVE . 29.
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... hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission - poem , but a downright interloper . Those gentlemen who carry on their poetical trade in a joint stock would certainly do what they could to sink and ruin an unlicensed adventurer ...
... hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission - poem , but a downright interloper . Those gentlemen who carry on their poetical trade in a joint stock would certainly do what they could to sink and ruin an unlicensed adventurer ...
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