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a Some have at first for wits , than poets pass'd , Turn'd critics next , and proved plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits nor critics pass , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass . Those half - learn'd witlings , numerous ...
a Some have at first for wits , than poets pass'd , Turn'd critics next , and proved plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits nor critics pass , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass . Those half - learn'd witlings , numerous ...
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Ye shall not beg , like gratis - given Bland , Sent with a pass , and vagrant through the land ; Not sail with Ward , to ape - and - monkey climes , Where vile Mundungus trucks for viler rhymes : Not sulphur - tipt , emblaze an ale ...
Ye shall not beg , like gratis - given Bland , Sent with a pass , and vagrant through the land ; Not sail with Ward , to ape - and - monkey climes , Where vile Mundungus trucks for viler rhymes : Not sulphur - tipt , emblaze an ale ...
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Chorus Let the toast pass , Drink to the lass , I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass . Here's to the charmer whose dimples we prize ; Now to the maid who has none , sir : Here's to the girl with a pair of blue eyes ...
Chorus Let the toast pass , Drink to the lass , I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass . Here's to the charmer whose dimples we prize ; Now to the maid who has none , sir : Here's to the girl with a pair of blue eyes ...
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Contents
CHARLES SACKVILLE EARL OF DORSET 16381706 | 1 |
ANNE COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA ?16601720 | 10 |
WILLIAM CONGREVE 16701729 | 19 |
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| Title | The Oxford Library of English Poetry: Sackville to Keats Volume 2 of The Oxford Library of English Poetry, John Wain |
| Editor | John Wain |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122460, 9780192122469 |
| Length | 511 pages |
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