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... speak with unqualified , and there- fore unbecoming , distaste . What praise or censure he may have be- stowed on any one , has at least the merit of being sincere . He has many warm feel- ings upon every subject of public concern ...
... speak with unqualified , and there- fore unbecoming , distaste . What praise or censure he may have be- stowed on any one , has at least the merit of being sincere . He has many warm feel- ings upon every subject of public concern ...
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... speaking . Pray have you to learn - and at this time of day , That your views on regard have been all the wrong way ? One ten thousandth part of the words and the time That you've wasted on praises instead of your rhyme , Might have ...
... speaking . Pray have you to learn - and at this time of day , That your views on regard have been all the wrong way ? One ten thousandth part of the words and the time That you've wasted on praises instead of your rhyme , Might have ...
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... , " Show me a sight That can give a divinity sounder delight , Or that earth should more prize from its core to the poles , Than the self - improved morals of elegant souls . Repentant I speak it - though when I was wild 21.
... , " Show me a sight That can give a divinity sounder delight , Or that earth should more prize from its core to the poles , Than the self - improved morals of elegant souls . Repentant I speak it - though when I was wild 21.
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With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. Repentant I speak it - though when I was wild , My friends should remember the world was a child- That customs were diff'rent , and young people's eyes Had no better examples than those ...
With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse Leigh Hunt. Repentant I speak it - though when I was wild , My friends should remember the world was a child- That customs were diff'rent , and young people's eyes Had no better examples than those ...
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... speak of the literature of other na- tions ; and everywhere , in the writings of the last hundred years , we meet with nothing but the music and harmony of Pope ; in versifiers , in critics , in philosophers , in historians , in small ...
... speak of the literature of other na- tions ; and everywhere , in the writings of the last hundred years , we meet with nothing but the music and harmony of Pope ; in versifiers , in critics , in philosophers , in historians , in small ...
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