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... Dibdin , and Cher- ry , All grinning , as who should say , " Shan't we be merry ? " And mighty dull Cobb , lumb'ring just like a bear up , And sweet Billy Dimond , a patting his hair up . The God , for an instant , sat fix'd as 3 17.
... Dibdin , and Cher- ry , All grinning , as who should say , " Shan't we be merry ? " And mighty dull Cobb , lumb'ring just like a bear up , And sweet Billy Dimond , a patting his hair up . The God , for an instant , sat fix'd as 3 17.
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... bear What Dryden has witness'd , unsmote with despair ( 21 ) He said ; and the place all seem'd swelling with light , While his locks and his isage grew awfully bright ; And clouds , burning inward , roll'd round on each side , To ...
... bear What Dryden has witness'd , unsmote with despair ( 21 ) He said ; and the place all seem'd swelling with light , While his locks and his isage grew awfully bright ; And clouds , burning inward , roll'd round on each side , To ...
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... Bear was his inn ; and the comet , they say , Was his tandem in waiting to fetch him away . The others then parted , all highly delighted : And so shall I be , when you find me invited . NOTES ON THE FEAST OF THE POETS . ( 1 29.
... Bear was his inn ; and the comet , they say , Was his tandem in waiting to fetch him away . The others then parted , all highly delighted : And so shall I be , when you find me invited . NOTES ON THE FEAST OF THE POETS . ( 1 29.
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... bear ; but to visit on him the full return of his tem- per , would be a severity as humiliating to a pro- per satirist , as intolerable to himself . Our author , however , does not appear to have carried this enthusiastic impatience of ...
... bear ; but to visit on him the full return of his tem- per , would be a severity as humiliating to a pro- per satirist , as intolerable to himself . Our author , however , does not appear to have carried this enthusiastic impatience of ...
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... bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain . We repeat this sonnet with the less hesitation , because it does not appear in the usual editions of Gray , though one of the best and most original of his compositions . It was ...
... bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain . We repeat this sonnet with the less hesitation , because it does not appear in the usual editions of Gray , though one of the best and most original of his compositions . It was ...
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