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... play Are the accomplishments we should desire ; To write , or read , or think , or to inquire Would cloud our beauty , and exhaust our time , And interrupt the conquests of our prime ; Whilst the dull manage of a servile house Is held ...
... play Are the accomplishments we should desire ; To write , or read , or think , or to inquire Would cloud our beauty , and exhaust our time , And interrupt the conquests of our prime ; Whilst the dull manage of a servile house Is held ...
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... play , The Gentle Shepherd , in 1725. Ramsay had experimented before in pastoral poetry - in Richard and Sandy , a Pastoral on the Death of Mr. Joseph Addi- son ( 1719 ) and Patie and Roger ( 1720 ) . The latter , with slight ...
... play , The Gentle Shepherd , in 1725. Ramsay had experimented before in pastoral poetry - in Richard and Sandy , a Pastoral on the Death of Mr. Joseph Addi- son ( 1719 ) and Patie and Roger ( 1720 ) . The latter , with slight ...
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... play . Why pine the married ? -Oh severer fate ! They find from play no disengag'd - estate . Flavia , at lovers false , untouch'd , and hard , Turns pale and trembles at a cruel card . Nor Arria's Bible can secure her age ; Her ...
... play . Why pine the married ? -Oh severer fate ! They find from play no disengag'd - estate . Flavia , at lovers false , untouch'd , and hard , Turns pale and trembles at a cruel card . Nor Arria's Bible can secure her age ; Her ...
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MATTHEW PRIOR | 1 |
If wine and music | 7 |
The Female Phaeton | 15 |
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