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... please the smell . XVII . Why knows the nightingale to fing ? Why flows the pine's nectareous juice ? Why shines with paint the linnet's wing ? For fuftenance alone ? for use ? For prefervation ? Every sphere Shall bid fair Pleafure's ...
... please the smell . XVII . Why knows the nightingale to fing ? Why flows the pine's nectareous juice ? Why shines with paint the linnet's wing ? For fuftenance alone ? for use ? For prefervation ? Every sphere Shall bid fair Pleafure's ...
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... please no more ; Adieu the fimple , the fincere delight Th ' habitual scene of hill and dale , The rural herds , the vernal gale , The tangled vetch's purple bloom , The fragrance of the bean's perfume , Be theirs alone who cultivate ...
... please no more ; Adieu the fimple , the fincere delight Th ' habitual scene of hill and dale , The rural herds , the vernal gale , The tangled vetch's purple bloom , The fragrance of the bean's perfume , Be theirs alone who cultivate ...
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... please . XI . And fome had bent the wildering maze , Bedeckt with every shrub that blows ; And fome entwin'd the willing sprays , To fhield th ' illuftrious Dame's repose : Others had grac'd the fprightly dome , And taught the portrait ...
... please . XI . And fome had bent the wildering maze , Bedeckt with every shrub that blows ; And fome entwin'd the willing sprays , To fhield th ' illuftrious Dame's repose : Others had grac'd the fprightly dome , And taught the portrait ...
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... please to walk before ? " No pray , Sir - you are next the door . " Upon mine honour , I'll not stir ! " Sir , I'm at home ; confider , Sir . " Excufe me Sir , I'll not go firft . " Well , if I must be rude , I muft ; But yet I wish I ...
... please to walk before ? " No pray , Sir - you are next the door . " Upon mine honour , I'll not stir ! " Sir , I'm at home ; confider , Sir . " Excufe me Sir , I'll not go firft . " Well , if I must be rude , I muft ; But yet I wish I ...
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... please and teach together : But ' tis the devil of a plan , That can accomplish neither . Ye readers , hear ! ye writers too ! O fpare your darkling labours ! For , tho ' they please , not profit , you , They plague and hurt your ...
... please and teach together : But ' tis the devil of a plan , That can accomplish neither . Ye readers , hear ! ye writers too ! O fpare your darkling labours ! For , tho ' they please , not profit , you , They plague and hurt your ...
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