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John Smythe Memes. Oh then , kind Heaven ! be this my latest breath Here end my life , or make it worth my care ; Absence from whom we love is worse than death , And frustrate hope severer than despair ... kind Heaven! be this my latest ...
John Smythe Memes. Oh then , kind Heaven ! be this my latest breath Here end my life , or make it worth my care ; Absence from whom we love is worse than death , And frustrate hope severer than despair ... kind Heaven! be this my latest ...
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... kind , and good thou art , Nor wilt , by wronging thine own heart , Unjustly punish me . How blest the youth whom fate ordains A kind relief from all his pains , In some admired fair ; Whose tenderest wishes finds express'd Their own ...
... kind , and good thou art , Nor wilt , by wronging thine own heart , Unjustly punish me . How blest the youth whom fate ordains A kind relief from all his pains , In some admired fair ; Whose tenderest wishes finds express'd Their own ...
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... kind , that I one day said to a friend of mine , If the clerk of the journals of the House of Lords should die , I had some hopes that my kinsman , who had the place in his disposal , would appoint me to succeed him . ' We both agreed ...
... kind , that I one day said to a friend of mine , If the clerk of the journals of the House of Lords should die , I had some hopes that my kinsman , who had the place in his disposal , would appoint me to succeed him . ' We both agreed ...
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