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A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased
English Authors Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan. Whose breast
has all the wealth I have , Save a faint carcass and a grave . But had I as many
hearts ...
A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased
English Authors Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan. Whose breast
has all the wealth I have , Save a faint carcass and a grave . But had I as many
hearts ...
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... Heaven sent down to raise The price of prologues and of plays , Be every
birthday more a winner , Digest his thirty - thousandth dinner ; Walk to his grave
without reproach , And scorn a rascal and a coach ! Alexander Pope . D XLVIII .
... Heaven sent down to raise The price of prologues and of plays , Be every
birthday more a winner , Digest his thirty - thousandth dinner ; Walk to his grave
without reproach , And scorn a rascal and a coach ! Alexander Pope . D XLVIII .
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If you want courage to despise The censure of the grave , Tho ' Love's a tyrant in
your eyes , Your heart is but a slave . My love is full of noble pride ; Nor can it e'er
submit To let that fop , Discretion , ride In triumph over it . False friends I have ...
If you want courage to despise The censure of the grave , Tho ' Love's a tyrant in
your eyes , Your heart is but a slave . My love is full of noble pride ; Nor can it e'er
submit To let that fop , Discretion , ride In triumph over it . False friends I have ...
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Ah , yet , ere I descend to th ' grave , May I a small house and large garden have !
And a few friends , and many books ; both true , Both wise , and both delightful
too ! And , since love ne'er will from me flee , A mistress moderately fair , And ...
Ah , yet , ere I descend to th ' grave , May I a small house and large garden have !
And a few friends , and many books ; both true , Both wise , and both delightful
too ! And , since love ne'er will from me flee , A mistress moderately fair , And ...
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... both rise and set , There bid good morning to each day , There meditate my
time away , And angle on : and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave .
Izaak Walton . LXXXII . THE CONTENTED MAN . HAPPY the man whose 56 Lyra
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... both rise and set , There bid good morning to each day , There meditate my
time away , And angle on : and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave .
Izaak Walton . LXXXII . THE CONTENTED MAN . HAPPY the man whose 56 Lyra
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| Title | Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English Authors Volume 21 of Minerva library of famous books The Minerva Library Volume 21 of The Minerva library of famous books. Ed. by G. T. Bettany. [v. 21] |
| Editors | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Ward, Lock, 1891 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 425 pages |
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