The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Samuel Johnson. know , because they have never deceived us . The fair adventurer may , perhaps , listen to the Idler , whom she cannot suspect of rivalry or malice ; yet he scarcely expects to be credited when he tells her , that her ...
Samuel Johnson. know , because they have never deceived us . The fair adventurer may , perhaps , listen to the Idler , whom she cannot suspect of rivalry or malice ; yet he scarcely expects to be credited when he tells her , that her ...
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... fair banks of Severn or of Trent ; There might'st thou find some elegant retreat , Some hireling senator's deserted seat ; And stretch thy prospects o'er the smiling land , For less than rent the dungeons of the Strand ; There prune thy ...
... fair banks of Severn or of Trent ; There might'st thou find some elegant retreat , Some hireling senator's deserted seat ; And stretch thy prospects o'er the smiling land , For less than rent the dungeons of the Strand ; There prune thy ...
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... Fair justice , then , without constraint ador'd , Held high the steady scale , but sheath'd the sword§ ; No spies were paid , no special juries known , Blest age ! but ah ! how diff'rent from our own ! " Much could I add , -but see the ...
... Fair justice , then , without constraint ador'd , Held high the steady scale , but sheath'd the sword§ ; No spies were paid , no special juries known , Blest age ! but ah ! how diff'rent from our own ! " Much could I add , -but see the ...
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... fair Austria spreads her mournful charms , The queen , the beauty , sets the world in arms ; From hill to hill the beacon's rousing blaze Spreads wide the hope of plunder and of praise ; The fierce Croatian , and the wild Hussar ...
... fair Austria spreads her mournful charms , The queen , the beauty , sets the world in arms ; From hill to hill the beacon's rousing blaze Spreads wide the hope of plunder and of praise ; The fierce Croatian , and the wild Hussar ...
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... fair Greek , whose name was Irene . The sultan invited her to embrace the law of the prophet , and to grace his throne . En- raged at this intended marriage , the janizaries formed a conspiracy to dethrone the emperor . To avert the ...
... fair Greek , whose name was Irene . The sultan invited her to embrace the law of the prophet , and to grace his throne . En- raged at this intended marriage , the janizaries formed a conspiracy to dethrone the emperor . To avert the ...
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