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Ah ! what avails that by a father's care “ I rose a wealthy and illustrious heir ? 130
“ That early in my youth I learn'd to prove 6. Th'instructive , pleasing , academic
grove : 120 66 “ That in the senate eloquence was mine ? « THE WANDERER .
Ah ! what avails that by a father's care “ I rose a wealthy and illustrious heir ? 130
“ That early in my youth I learn'd to prove 6. Th'instructive , pleasing , academic
grove : 120 66 “ That in the senate eloquence was mine ? « THE WANDERER .
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A Haplėss youth , whom fates averse had drove To a strange passion and
preposterous love , Long'd to possess his Puss's spotted charms , And hug the
tabby beauty in his arms . To what odd whimsies Love inveigles men ! 5 Sure if
the boy ...
A Haplėss youth , whom fates averse had drove To a strange passion and
preposterous love , Long'd to possess his Puss's spotted charms , And hug the
tabby beauty in his arms . To what odd whimsies Love inveigles men ! 5 Sure if
the boy ...
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For as the youth his lovely consort led To the dear pleasures of the nuptial bed ,
Just on that instant from an inner house Into the chamber popt a heedless mouse
: Miss ' Tabby law , and brooking no delay Sprung from the sheets and seiz'd the
...
For as the youth his lovely consort led To the dear pleasures of the nuptial bed ,
Just on that instant from an inner house Into the chamber popt a heedless mouse
: Miss ' Tabby law , and brooking no delay Sprung from the sheets and seiz'd the
...
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Contents
To the Right Hon Sir Robert Walpole | 151 |
To Mr John Dyer a Painter c | 159 |
To Aaron Hill Esq with the Tragedy of | 165 |
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| Title | Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ... Volumes 88-90 of Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Illustrated by | Thomas Stothard, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1776 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2006 |
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