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... ARM . Alarm Arm Farm Charm Harm Barm Difarm Uncharm Fore - arm Warm Swarm . Note , that these two aft Words rhyme to fome of the Words in ORM , as , Storm Form Deform , & c . which fee under their proper Termination . ARN . Barn Darn ...
... ARM . Alarm Arm Farm Charm Harm Barm Difarm Uncharm Fore - arm Warm Swarm . Note , that these two aft Words rhyme to fome of the Words in ORM , as , Storm Form Deform , & c . which fee under their proper Termination . ARN . Barn Darn ...
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... Arms : His Arrows fcatter'd , and his Bow unftrung : Obfcure in Coverts lie his dreaming Hounds , And bay the fanfy'd Boar with feeble Sounds . For nobler Sports he quits the favage Fields , And all the Hero to the Lover yields . Smith ...
... Arms : His Arrows fcatter'd , and his Bow unftrung : Obfcure in Coverts lie his dreaming Hounds , And bay the fanfy'd Boar with feeble Sounds . For nobler Sports he quits the favage Fields , And all the Hero to the Lover yields . Smith ...
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... Slumber : As when the gloomy Thunderer prepares To drown the World with Deluges of Rain ; Or fends his ftormy Hail , or fleecy Snows , To cloath the Surface of the hoary Earth ; Or , when he's ready to excite to Arms Two A F 19.
... Slumber : As when the gloomy Thunderer prepares To drown the World with Deluges of Rain ; Or fends his ftormy Hail , or fleecy Snows , To cloath the Surface of the hoary Earth ; Or , when he's ready to excite to Arms Two A F 19.
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Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. Or , when he's ready to excite to Arms Two Nations , and difclofe the Jaws of War ; Thro ' all the Heav'ns the dreadful Lightnings play , Nor ceafe , nor paufe , but Flafh fucceeds on Elath ...
Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. Or , when he's ready to excite to Arms Two Nations , and difclofe the Jaws of War ; Thro ' all the Heav'ns the dreadful Lightnings play , Nor ceafe , nor paufe , but Flafh fucceeds on Elath ...
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... Arms embrac'd the Dead . Then , flick'ring to his pallid Lips , the ftrove To print a Kifs , the laft Effay of Love . Whether the vital Touch reviv'd the Dead , Or that the moving Waters rais'd his Head To meet the Kifs , the Vulgar ...
... Arms embrac'd the Dead . Then , flick'ring to his pallid Lips , the ftrove To print a Kifs , the laft Effay of Love . Whether the vital Touch reviv'd the Dead , Or that the moving Waters rais'd his Head To meet the Kifs , the Vulgar ...
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