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... met with tragedies enough in real life ; whereas the comedy , or interlude , is a relief from anxious and disgusting reflections , and fuggefts fuch playful ideas , as wanton round the heart and enliven the AUTHOR OF HUDIBRAS . xix.
... met with tragedies enough in real life ; whereas the comedy , or interlude , is a relief from anxious and disgusting reflections , and fuggefts fuch playful ideas , as wanton round the heart and enliven the AUTHOR OF HUDIBRAS . xix.
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A Poem in Three Cantos Samuel I Butler. ideas , as wanton round the heart and enliven the very features . The hero marches out in fearch of adventures , to suppress thofe fports , and punish those trivial offences , which the vulgar ...
A Poem in Three Cantos Samuel I Butler. ideas , as wanton round the heart and enliven the very features . The hero marches out in fearch of adventures , to suppress thofe fports , and punish those trivial offences , which the vulgar ...
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... government , And tell , with hieroglyphic spade , Its own grave and the state's were made . Like Sampson's heart - breakers , it grew In time to make a nation rue ; 240 245 250 Tho ' it contributed its own fall , To wait PART I. 17 CANTO I.
... government , And tell , with hieroglyphic spade , Its own grave and the state's were made . Like Sampson's heart - breakers , it grew In time to make a nation rue ; 240 245 250 Tho ' it contributed its own fall , To wait PART I. 17 CANTO I.
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... heart , was ty'd , With basket - hilt , that would hold broth , And ferve for fight and dinner both . In it he melted lead for bullets , 350 355 To shoot at foes , and fometimes pullets ; To whom he bore fo fell a grutch , He ne'er gave ...
... heart , was ty'd , With basket - hilt , that would hold broth , And ferve for fight and dinner both . In it he melted lead for bullets , 350 355 To shoot at foes , and fometimes pullets ; To whom he bore fo fell a grutch , He ne'er gave ...
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... Profoundly skill'd in the black art , As English Merlin , for his heart ; But far more skilful in the spheres , Than he was at the sieve and shears . 345 He cou'd transform himself to colour , As like the 78 PART I. CANTO II .
... Profoundly skill'd in the black art , As English Merlin , for his heart ; But far more skilful in the spheres , Than he was at the sieve and shears . 345 He cou'd transform himself to colour , As like the 78 PART I. CANTO II .
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