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... turning about , left the room in vexation , And Hook , they say , couldn't help mutt'ring " Damna- tion ! " ' Twas lucky for Colman he wasn't there too , For his pranks would have certainly met with their due , And Sheridan's also ...
... turning about , left the room in vexation , And Hook , they say , couldn't help mutt'ring " Damna- tion ! " ' Twas lucky for Colman he wasn't there too , For his pranks would have certainly met with their due , And Sheridan's also ...
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... 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 ; For Coleridge had vex'd him long since , I suppose 22.
... 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 ; For Coleridge had vex'd him long since , I suppose 22.
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... turning and smoothing his frown , Bade 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 ...
... turning and smoothing his frown , Bade 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 ...
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... turn'd pale , and suppress'd , With a deathbed sensation , a blasphemous jest . ( 23 ) But Phœbus no sooner had gain'd his good ends , Than he put off his terrors , and rais'd up his friends , Who stood for a moment , entranc'd to ...
... turn'd pale , and suppress'd , With a deathbed sensation , a blasphemous jest . ( 23 ) But Phœbus no sooner had gain'd his good ends , Than he put off his terrors , and rais'd up his friends , Who stood for a moment , entranc'd to ...
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... turn'd to whatever was racy and rare : The fish and the flesh , for example , were done , On account of their fineness , in flame from the sun ; The wines were all nectar of different smack , To which Muskat was nothing , nar Virginis ...
... turn'd to whatever was racy and rare : The fish and the flesh , for example , were done , On account of their fineness , in flame from the sun ; The wines were all nectar of different smack , To which Muskat was nothing , nar Virginis ...
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