The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1Harper, 1872 |
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Page 7
... reasons which produced it . Desire of friends , ' is now become a proverbial satire ; the poet is driven from that once ... reason to be still more ashamed , that after a period of so many years the progress will be found to have been so ...
... reasons which produced it . Desire of friends , ' is now become a proverbial satire ; the poet is driven from that once ... reason to be still more ashamed , that after a period of so many years the progress will be found to have been so ...
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... arisen not from any want of openness to conviction in me , but from my conceiving myself te Lave been misunderstood and , for that reason only , misrepresented . CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. Page 43 , 14 THE PUPPET PREFACE .
... arisen not from any want of openness to conviction in me , but from my conceiving myself te Lave been misunderstood and , for that reason only , misrepresented . CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. Page 43 , 14 THE PUPPET PREFACE .
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... Reason's way , Enslav'd by fashion's wizard sway ; If by her witcheries still betray'd , You wed some vain fantastic maid ; Snatch'd , not selected , as you go , The heroine of the puppet - show ; In every outward grace refin'd , And ...
... Reason's way , Enslav'd by fashion's wizard sway ; If by her witcheries still betray'd , You wed some vain fantastic maid ; Snatch'd , not selected , as you go , The heroine of the puppet - show ; In every outward grace refin'd , And ...
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... Reason , keep the field . Long was Society o'er - run By Whist , that desolating Hun ; Long did Quadrille despotic sit , That vandal of colloquial Wit : And conversation's setting light Lay half - obscur'd in Gothic night ; At length ...
... Reason , keep the field . Long was Society o'er - run By Whist , that desolating Hun ; Long did Quadrille despotic sit , That vandal of colloquial Wit : And conversation's setting light Lay half - obscur'd in Gothic night ; At length ...
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... reason's clear enough , quoth Cupid , My company is thought but stupid , Where Plutus is the favourite guest , For he and I scarce speak at best . The self - same sun which joins the twain Sees Flavia sever'd from her swain ; Bellario ...
... reason's clear enough , quoth Cupid , My company is thought but stupid , Where Plutus is the favourite guest , For he and I scarce speak at best . The self - same sun which joins the twain Sees Flavia sever'd from her swain ; Bellario ...
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