Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English AuthorsFrederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan |
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... sleep as may beguile the night ; Contented with thine own estate , Nor wish for death , nor fear his might . Earl of Surrey . LXXX . CONTENT . SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content : - The quiet mind is richer than a crown ...
... sleep as may beguile the night ; Contented with thine own estate , Nor wish for death , nor fear his might . Earl of Surrey . LXXX . CONTENT . SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content : - The quiet mind is richer than a crown ...
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... sleep by night ; study and ease Together mix'd , sweet recreation And innocence , which most doth please With meditation . Thus let me live unseen , unknown ; Thus , unlamented , let me die ; Steal from the world , and not a stone Tell ...
... sleep by night ; study and ease Together mix'd , sweet recreation And innocence , which most doth please With meditation . Thus let me live unseen , unknown ; Thus , unlamented , let me die ; Steal from the world , and not a stone Tell ...
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... sleep a wink : For if a new crotchet comes into my brain , I can't get it out , though I'd never so fain . I fancy already a barrack contrived At Hamilton's Bawn , and the troop is arrived ; Of this , to be sure , Sir Arthur has warning ...
... sleep a wink : For if a new crotchet comes into my brain , I can't get it out , though I'd never so fain . I fancy already a barrack contrived At Hamilton's Bawn , and the troop is arrived ; Of this , to be sure , Sir Arthur has warning ...
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... sleep out the Sabbath of the tomb , And wake to raptures in a life to come ! Alexander Pope . CXXI . PR'YTHEE , Chloe , not so fast , Let's not run and wed in haste ; We've a thousand things to do , You must fly , and I pursue ; You ...
... sleep out the Sabbath of the tomb , And wake to raptures in a life to come ! Alexander Pope . CXXI . PR'YTHEE , Chloe , not so fast , Let's not run and wed in haste ; We've a thousand things to do , You must fly , and I pursue ; You ...
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... sleeping and waking , Thou wild thing , that always art leaping or aching , What black , brown , or fair , in what clime , in what nation , By turns has not taught thee a pit - a - pat - ation ? Thus accused , the wild thing gave this ...
... sleeping and waking , Thou wild thing , that always art leaping or aching , What black , brown , or fair , in what clime , in what nation , By turns has not taught thee a pit - a - pat - ation ? Thus accused , the wild thing gave this ...
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