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Page 117 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
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Page 303 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They looking back all th...
Page 286 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Page 90 - twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man 's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
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| Title | A Handbook of English Literature |
| Author | William Hall Griffin |
| Editor | William Hall Griffin |
| Compiled by | Austin Dobson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | C. Lockwood and son, 1897 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Oct 2007 |
| ISBN | 084142490X, 9780841424906 |
| Length | 384 pages |
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