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Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft . Where be your gibes
now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment , that were wont to
set the table in a roar ? EXERCISES . seats 1. I cannot but imagine the virtuous ...
Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft . Where be your gibes
now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment , that were wont to
set the table in a roar ? EXERCISES . seats 1. I cannot but imagine the virtuous ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rudiments of English Composition |
| Author | Alexander Reid |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Oliver & Boyd, 1854 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 134 pages |
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