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I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts , believe , and say my
pray'rs ; Can sleep without a poem in my head , Nor know , if Dennis be alive or
dead . Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light ? Heav'ns ! I born for nothing
but ...
I was not born for courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts , believe , and say my
pray'rs ; Can sleep without a poem in my head , Nor know , if Dennis be alive or
dead . Why am I ask'd what next shall see the light ? Heav'ns ! I born for nothing
but ...
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P. What ? arm'd for virtue when I point the pen ; Brand.the bold front of shameless
guilty inen ; Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car ; Bare the mean heart that
lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting , to defend her cause , Lights of the ...
P. What ? arm'd for virtue when I point the pen ; Brand.the bold front of shameless
guilty inen ; Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car ; Bare the mean heart that
lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting , to defend her cause , Lights of the ...
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But grave Epistles , bringing vice to light , Such as a king might read , a bishop
write , Such as Sir Robert would approve F. Indeed ? The case is alter'd you may
then proceed ; In such a cause the plaintiff will be hiss'd , My lords the judges ...
But grave Epistles , bringing vice to light , Such as a king might read , a bishop
write , Such as Sir Robert would approve F. Indeed ? The case is alter'd you may
then proceed ; In such a cause the plaintiff will be hiss'd , My lords the judges ...
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... ev'ry dish , A tomb of boil'd and roast , and flesh and fish , Where bile , and
wind , and phlegm , and acid jar , And all the man is one intestine war )
Remembers of the school - boy's simple fare , The temp'rate sleeps , and spirits
light as air .
... ev'ry dish , A tomb of boil'd and roast , and flesh and fish , Where bile , and
wind , and phlegm , and acid jar , And all the man is one intestine war )
Remembers of the school - boy's simple fare , The temp'rate sleeps , and spirits
light as air .
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O you ! whom vanity's light bark conveys On fame's mad voyage by the wind of
praise , With what a shifting gale your course you ply For ever sunk too low , or
born too high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose , A breath revives him ,
or a ...
O you ! whom vanity's light bark conveys On fame's mad voyage by the wind of
praise , With what a shifting gale your course you ply For ever sunk too low , or
born too high ! Who pants for glory finds but short repose , A breath revives him ,
or a ...
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