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Oh ! she is found out then , it seems . " But how to gain admission ? for access Is giv'n to none , but Juba and her brothers . " But , raillery apart , why access to Juba ? For he was owned and received as a lover neither by the father ...
Oh ! she is found out then , it seems . " But how to gain admission ? for access Is giv'n to none , but Juba and her brothers . " But , raillery apart , why access to Juba ? For he was owned and received as a lover neither by the father ...
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Of this propensity to sordid converse I have seen an account so seriously ridiculous that it seems to deserve insertion ' . 50 ' I have been assured that Prior , after having spent the evening with Oxford , Bolingbroke , Pope , and ...
Of this propensity to sordid converse I have seen an account so seriously ridiculous that it seems to deserve insertion ' . 50 ' I have been assured that Prior , after having spent the evening with Oxford , Bolingbroke , Pope , and ...
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Whatever Prior obtains above mediocrity seems the effort of struggle and of toil ” . He has many vigorous but few happy lines ; he has every thing by purchase , and nothing by gift ; he had no ' nightly visitations 3 ' of the Muse ...
Whatever Prior obtains above mediocrity seems the effort of struggle and of toil ” . He has many vigorous but few happy lines ; he has every thing by purchase , and nothing by gift ; he had no ' nightly visitations 3 ' of the Muse ...
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