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Poems on Several Occasions - Page 137
by Thomas Parnell - 1760 - 252 pages
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Gesta Romanorum, Volume 1

1824 - 558 pages
...praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive ; the liv'ry'd servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they...
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Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the ..., Volume 1

Charles Swan - 1824 - 596 pages
...of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive ; the liv'ry'd servants wait; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 1-2

British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...praise, Proved the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive : the liveried servants wait : Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive : the livery'd servants wait; wers, and lay his castle low. Those men, those wretched men ! who w costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arriVe : the liv'ried servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, : And all is more than hospitably good. /. Then, led to rest, the day's long...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...praise, Proved the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive ; the liveried servants wait ; glides The sunbeams trembling on the floating tides : "While melting costly piles of food, And all is шоге than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Parnell

Thomas Parnell - 1833 - 324 pages
...of praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive : the liveried servants wait; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...praise, Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive : the livery 'd servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...praise, • Prov'd the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive : the livery'd servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, •• And all is more than hospitably good. i Then, led to rest, the day's long...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 16

1840 - 274 pages
...praise, Proved the vain flourish of expensive ease. The pair arrive : the liveried servants wait ; Their lord receives them at the pompous gate. The table groans with costly piles of food, And all is more than hospitably good. Then led to rest, the day's long toil they...
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