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... leave this place ; But , lest your fetters prove too weak , Ere I your silken bondage break , Do you , O brambles , chain me too , And , courteous briars , nail me through . I was here as in a lonely temple . Snug BLAKESMOOR IN H - shire .
... leave this place ; But , lest your fetters prove too weak , Ere I your silken bondage break , Do you , O brambles , chain me too , And , courteous briars , nail me through . I was here as in a lonely temple . Snug BLAKESMOOR IN H - shire .
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... leaving to his two brethren the heavy calendars -- honest Rhadamanth , always partial to players , weighing their parti - coloured existence here upon earth , -making account of the few foibles , that may have shaded thy real life , as ...
... leaving to his two brethren the heavy calendars -- honest Rhadamanth , always partial to players , weighing their parti - coloured existence here upon earth , -making account of the few foibles , that may have shaded thy real life , as ...
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... leaving me to chew upon his new - blown dignities at leisure . In fact , nothing could be said to it . Expressive silence alone could muse his praise . This was in his great style . But was he less great , ( be witness , O ye Powers of ...
... leaving me to chew upon his new - blown dignities at leisure . In fact , nothing could be said to it . Expressive silence alone could muse his praise . This was in his great style . But was he less great , ( be witness , O ye Powers of ...
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... leaves , " to come bolt upon a withering Population Essay . To expect a Steele , or a Farquhar , and find- Adam Smith . To view a well - arranged assortment of blockheaded Encyclopædias ( Anglicanas or Metropolitanas ) set out in an ...
... leaves , " to come bolt upon a withering Population Essay . To expect a Steele , or a Farquhar , and find- Adam Smith . To view a well - arranged assortment of blockheaded Encyclopædias ( Anglicanas or Metropolitanas ) set out in an ...
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... leaves , and worn out appearance , nay , the very odour ( beyond Russia ) , if we would not forget kind feelings in fastidiousness , of an old " Circulating Library " Tom Jones , or Vicar of Wakefield ! How they speak of the thousand ...
... leaves , and worn out appearance , nay , the very odour ( beyond Russia ) , if we would not forget kind feelings in fastidiousness , of an old " Circulating Library " Tom Jones , or Vicar of Wakefield ! How they speak of the thousand ...
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