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A New Miscellany for the Year 1734 - Page 14
by Jonathan Swift - 1734 - 23 pages
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On Poetry: a Rapsody

Jonathan Swift - 1733 - 52 pages
...vage-Piéturçs fill \ their Gaps ;; ^ ; . ; ., : . And o'er unhabitablç Downs --^7 . : ' .. . • * Place Elephants for want of Towns. -....• But tho' you mifs your third Eflay, • rSp You need net throw your 'Pen away. Lay now aiide all Thoughts of Fanib, , To fpring...
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The Works of J. S.

Jonathan Swift - 1735 - 502 pages
...ill-coupled Hounds* Drag diff'rent Ways in miry Grounds. So Geographers in Afric Maps With Savage Piftures fill their Gaps; And o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns: BUT though you mifs your third Eflay, You need not throw your Pen away. Lay now afide all Thoughts of Fame,...
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The works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2

Jonathan Swift - 1744 - 416 pages
...ill-coupled Hounds, Drag difPrent Ways in miry Grounds. So Geographers in Afric Maps With Savage Pictures fill their Gaps ; And, o'er unhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns. • BUT, though you mifs your third Effay* You need not throw your Pen away. Lay now afide all Thoughts of Fame,...
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The Works of D. Jonathan Swift: In Nine Volumes, Volume 2

Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 412 pages
...hounds, . • Drag different ways in miry grounds :;; So Geographers in dfri.c maps With favage piftures fill their gaps; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns, BUT though you mifs yonr third eflay,! . ' You need not throw your pen away. Lay now afide all thoughts...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 pages
...ill-coupled hounds Drag diff'rent ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps With favage piftures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants, for want of towns. But, though you mifs your third effay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now afide all thoughts of fame,...
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The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen ...

Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 410 pages
...hounds 175 IDrag dift'rent ways in miry grounds. So geographers in Afric maps With favage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. 1 80 But though you mils your third eflay, You ne^d not throw your pen away. Lay now alide all thoughts...
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The Works of the English Poets: Swift

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 400 pages
...pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. iSo But, though you mifs your third effay, You need not throw your pen away. Lav now afide all thoughts of fame, To fpring more .profitable game. From party-merit feek fupport...
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The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 398 pages
...hounds 1 75 Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers, in Afric maps, With favage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. i So But, though you mifs your third eflay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now afide all thoughts...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1787 - 446 pages
...moorlands of a diff'rent parish. So have I seen ill-coupled hounds Drag diff'rent ways in miry grounds; And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. But tho' you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts of fame, 185 To...
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The Works, Volume 11

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 386 pages
...ill-coupled hounds Drag different ways in miry grounds. So geographers, in Africk maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. But, though you miss your third essay, You need not throw your pen away. Lay now aside all thoughts of fame,...
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