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... , that there is but one thing happier than friend- ship , and nothing better than principle . Your's most sincerely , SURREY GAOL , January 10th , 1814 . LEIGH HUNT . PREFACE . As the following little piece , which was.
... , that there is but one thing happier than friend- ship , and nothing better than principle . Your's most sincerely , SURREY GAOL , January 10th , 1814 . LEIGH HUNT . PREFACE . As the following little piece , which was.
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... better keep back for a poem ' ' ve by me , And merely observe that the girls look'd divine , And the old folks in - doors exclaimed " Bless us how fine ! " Apollo arriv'd , had no sooner embodied His essence ethereal , than quenching ...
... better keep back for a poem ' ' ve by me , And merely observe that the girls look'd divine , And the old folks in - doors exclaimed " Bless us how fine ! " Apollo arriv'd , had no sooner embodied His essence ethereal , than quenching ...
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... better pleased to be with ' em down stairs , And will find ye all out with your cookings and cares . But mind that you treat him as well as you're able , And let him have part of what goes from the table . " ( 7 ) A soft , smiling voice ...
... better pleased to be with ' em down stairs , And will find ye all out with your cookings and cares . But mind that you treat him as well as you're able , And let him have part of what goes from the table . " ( 7 ) A soft , smiling voice ...
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... better examples than those in the skies . But soon as I learnt how to value these doings , I never much valued your billings and cooings ; They only make idle the best of my race ; And since my poor Daphne turned tree in my face , There ...
... better examples than those in the skies . But soon as I learnt how to value these doings , I never much valued your billings and cooings ; They only make idle the best of my race ; And since my poor Daphne turned tree in my face , There ...
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... better path , and became eccentric in another extreme ; while others , who saw the folly of both , were content to keep the beaten track , and set a proper example to neither . By these appeals , however , the public ear has been ...
... better path , and became eccentric in another extreme ; while others , who saw the folly of both , were content to keep the beaten track , and set a proper example to neither . By these appeals , however , the public ear has been ...
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