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2 Clos'd under hatches , Spairges about the brunstane cootie , To scaud poor wretches ! 5 Hear me , Auld Hangie , for a wee , An ' let poor damned bodies be ; I'm sure sma ' pleasure it can gie , Ev'n to a deil , To skelp * an ' scaud ...
2 Clos'd under hatches , Spairges about the brunstane cootie , To scaud poor wretches ! 5 Hear me , Auld Hangie , for a wee , An ' let poor damned bodies be ; I'm sure sma ' pleasure it can gie , Ev'n to a deil , To skelp * an ' scaud ...
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20 IO When this poor lisping stamm'ring tongue Lies silent in the grave . Lord , I believe thou hast prepar'd ( Unworthy though I be ) For me a blood - bought free reward , A golden harp for me ! ' Tis strung , and tun'd , for endless ...
20 IO When this poor lisping stamm'ring tongue Lies silent in the grave . Lord , I believe thou hast prepar'd ( Unworthy though I be ) For me a blood - bought free reward , A golden harp for me ! ' Tis strung , and tun'd , for endless ...
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... Whose greedy waves devour the less'ning shore ; Till some fierce tide , with more imperious sway , Sweeps the low hut and all it holds away ; When the sad tenant weeps from door to door , And begs a poor protection from the poor !
... Whose greedy waves devour the less'ning shore ; Till some fierce tide , with more imperious sway , Sweeps the low hut and all it holds away ; When the sad tenant weeps from door to door , And begs a poor protection from the poor !
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Contents
MATTHEW PRIOR I | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
Alma or The Progress of The Mind Canto I | 15 |
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| Title | English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century |
| Editor | Cecil Albert Moore |
| Publisher | H. Holt, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 942 pages |
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