The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Page 7
... night to repeat , from Hudibras , Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated , as to cheat ; and from Waller , Poets lose half the praise they would have got , Were it but known what they discreetly blot . Dick Misty is a man ...
... night to repeat , from Hudibras , Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated , as to cheat ; and from Waller , Poets lose half the praise they would have got , Were it but known what they discreetly blot . Dick Misty is a man ...
Page 13
... night are now filled with occupation ; the laces , which were too fine to be worn among rusticks , are taken from the boxes and reviewed ; and the eye is no sooner closed after its labours , than whole shops of silk busy the fancy . But ...
... night are now filled with occupation ; the laces , which were too fine to be worn among rusticks , are taken from the boxes and reviewed ; and the eye is no sooner closed after its labours , than whole shops of silk busy the fancy . But ...
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... night end in de- spondency when she , that imagined herself the sov- ereign of the place , sees lords contending to lead Iris to her chair ! There is little pleasure in conversation , to her whose wit is regarded but in the second place ...
... night end in de- spondency when she , that imagined herself the sov- ereign of the place , sees lords contending to lead Iris to her chair ! There is little pleasure in conversation , to her whose wit is regarded but in the second place ...
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... night , and the order with which the march was renewed in the morning . He continued to pursue them with his eye till they could be seen no longer , and then stood for some time silent and pensive . Then turning to his followers , " My ...
... night , and the order with which the march was renewed in the morning . He continued to pursue them with his eye till they could be seen no longer , and then stood for some time silent and pensive . Then turning to his followers , " My ...
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... night to write in the morning , and deferred it in the morning to the quiet hours of night . I have at last begun what I have long wished at an end , and find it more easy than I expected to continue my narration . Our assembly could ...
... night to write in the morning , and deferred it in the morning to the quiet hours of night . I have at last begun what I have long wished at an end , and find it more easy than I expected to continue my narration . Our assembly could ...
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