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... youth , Or sprouts into a beard ; As fields , so green when newly sown , With stubble stiff are overgrown , With my fa , la , la . Then , Celia , leave your apish tricks , And change your girlish airs , For ombre , snuff , and politics ...
... youth , Or sprouts into a beard ; As fields , so green when newly sown , With stubble stiff are overgrown , With my fa , la , la . Then , Celia , leave your apish tricks , And change your girlish airs , For ombre , snuff , and politics ...
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... youth Youth unapproved by years , May chance to deviate into truth , When your experience errs ; For once attempt not to despise What I esteem a rule : Who early loves , though young , is wise- Who old , though gray , a fool . AN ODE ON ...
... youth Youth unapproved by years , May chance to deviate into truth , When your experience errs ; For once attempt not to despise What I esteem a rule : Who early loves , though young , is wise- Who old , though gray , a fool . AN ODE ON ...
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... youth . " I well recollect , when I was about eleven years of age , my father desired me to read a vindication of self murder , and give him my sentiments upon the question : I did so , and argued against it . My father heard my reasons ...
... youth . " I well recollect , when I was about eleven years of age , my father desired me to read a vindication of self murder , and give him my sentiments upon the question : I did so , and argued against it . My father heard my reasons ...
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