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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 literature ...
... 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 literature ...
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... hand . ” Tickell , in his “ Prospect of Peace , ” has the same hopo 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 ...
... hand . ” Tickell , in his “ Prospect of Peace , ” has the same hopo 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 ...
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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 its ... hands , and beats her breast , And tears her useless girdle from her waist : Hear the sad murmurs of her sighing ...
... hand , and let me hear thy voice ; Nay , quickly speak to me , and let me hear Thy voice - my own affrights me with its ... hands , and beats her breast , And tears her useless girdle from her waist : Hear the sad murmurs of her sighing ...
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... host Again impatient crowd the crystal coast . The father now , within his spacious hands , Encompassed all the mingled mass of seas and lands ; And , having heaved aloft the ponderous sphere , He 40 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... host Again impatient crowd the crystal coast . The father now , within his spacious hands , Encompassed all the mingled mass of seas and lands ; And , having heaved aloft the ponderous sphere , He 40 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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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 ad ...
... 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 ad ...
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