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... Southey and two or three more . ( 14 ) As soon as he saw him , Apollo seem'd pleas'd ; ( 15 ) But as he had settled it not to be teas'd By all the vain dreamers from bed - room and brook , He turn'd from the rest without even a look ...
... Southey and two or three more . ( 14 ) As soon as he saw him , Apollo seem'd pleas'd ; ( 15 ) But as he had settled it not to be teas'd By all the vain dreamers from bed - room and brook , He turn'd from the rest without even a look ...
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... Southey take warning , and let him sit down ; But the rest of Bob's friends , too ambitious to flinch , Stood fixing their faces , and stirred not an inch ; While Sam , looking soft and politely dejected , Confess'd with a sigh , that ...
... Southey take warning , and let him sit down ; But the rest of Bob's friends , too ambitious to flinch , Stood fixing their faces , and stirred not an inch ; While Sam , looking soft and politely dejected , Confess'd with a sigh , that ...
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... Southey's with mountain - ash pluck'd in the wind , And Scott's with a heath from his old garden stores , And with vine - leaves and Jump - up - and - kiss - me , Tom Moore's . ( 24 ) Then Apollo put his on , that sparkled with beams ...
... Southey's with mountain - ash pluck'd in the wind , And Scott's with a heath from his old garden stores , And with vine - leaves and Jump - up - and - kiss - me , Tom Moore's . ( 24 ) Then Apollo put his on , that sparkled with beams ...
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... Southey , and shrugging his shoul- der , Cried , " When , my good friend , will you try to grow older ? " Then nodding to Scott , he said , " Pray be as portly And rich as you please , but a little less courtly . ” So , changing the ...
... Southey , and shrugging his shoul- der , Cried , " When , my good friend , will you try to grow older ? " Then nodding to Scott , he said , " Pray be as portly And rich as you please , but a little less courtly . ” So , changing the ...
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... Southey , I have read over and over again the Gertrude of Wyoming , and have paid it that genuine tribute , which the pride of manhood and the necessary habits of adversity are not much in the custom of lavishing . In speaking of Mr ...
... Southey , I have read over and over again the Gertrude of Wyoming , and have paid it that genuine tribute , which the pride of manhood and the necessary habits of adversity are not much in the custom of lavishing . In speaking of Mr ...
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