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" Her mouth so small, when she does speak, Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. "
The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters and Plays - Page 32
by Sir John Suckling - 1709 - 376 pages
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 360 pages
...Thoud'st swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit." There is to me in the whole of this delightful performance a freshness and purity like...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 9

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get : But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. ***** •* * Just in the nick the cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 9

Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get : But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. • **•* ** * Just in the nick the cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Thoud'st swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still of old, And / spent a whit. If wishing shou'd be any sin, Thr parson himself had guilty been, She look'd that day...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 9

Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get : But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. ***** ** * Just in the nick the cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. SONG. WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Pr'ythee why so pale ? Will, when looking well...
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Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling. To which is prefixed a life ...

Sir John Suckling - 1836 - 436 pages
...Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. Passion, oh me ! how I run on ! There's that that would be thought upon, I trow, besides...
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A Garland of Love, Wreathed of Pleasant Flowers, Gathered in the Field of ...

Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...Thou 'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. Passion o' me ! how I mn on ! There's that that would be thought upon, I trow, besides...
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Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling

Sir John Suckling - 1836 - 448 pages
...Thou'dst swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours, or better, And are not spent a whit. Passion, oh me! how I run on! There's that that would be thought upon, I trow, besides...
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Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts ..., Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 550 pages
...Thoud'st swear her teeth her words did break, That they might passage get ; But she so handled still the matter, They came as good as ours or better, And are not spent a whit. is still a universal favourite. Of Suckling's prose, his " Account of Religion by Reason,"...
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