The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1835 |
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... heard from you , I do not remember ever to have heard an unkind or an ungenerous one . Let me be allowed to bear my feeble testimony to your temperate use of this charming faculty , so de- lightful in itself , but which can only be ...
... heard from you , I do not remember ever to have heard an unkind or an ungenerous one . Let me be allowed to bear my feeble testimony to your temperate use of this charming faculty , so de- lightful in itself , but which can only be ...
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... heard of bards of GREECE , But had read half of DYER'S FLEECE . His sphere of knowledge still was wider , His Georgics , PHILIPS upon cider : ' He could produce in proper place , Three apt quotations from the ' Chase , ' t And in the ...
... heard of bards of GREECE , But had read half of DYER'S FLEECE . His sphere of knowledge still was wider , His Georgics , PHILIPS upon cider : ' He could produce in proper place , Three apt quotations from the ' Chase , ' t And in the ...
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... heard , Or still to selfish ends refer'd ; If in the deed no flaw they find , To some base motive ' tis assign'd When Malice longs to throw her dart , But finds no vulnerable part , Because the Virtues all defend , At every pass , their ...
... heard , Or still to selfish ends refer'd ; If in the deed no flaw they find , To some base motive ' tis assign'd When Malice longs to throw her dart , But finds no vulnerable part , Because the Virtues all defend , At every pass , their ...
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... Heard all the business of the quorum , Each cause and crime produc'd before ' em : Heard them abuse with complaisance The language , wines , and wits of France ; Nor did he hum a single air , While good Sir Gilbert fill'd his chair ...
... Heard all the business of the quorum , Each cause and crime produc'd before ' em : Heard them abuse with complaisance The language , wines , and wits of France ; Nor did he hum a single air , While good Sir Gilbert fill'd his chair ...
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... heard his name . Not thine the reckoning dire of LIGHT abus'd , KNOWLEDGE disgrac'd , and LIBERTY misus'd ; On thee no awful judge incens'd shall sit For parts perverted , and dishonour'd wit . Where ignorance may be found the safest ...
... heard his name . Not thine the reckoning dire of LIGHT abus'd , KNOWLEDGE disgrac'd , and LIBERTY misus'd ; On thee no awful judge incens'd shall sit For parts perverted , and dishonour'd wit . Where ignorance may be found the safest ...
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