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Look at the examination of political questions in our own land , ( for we need not go one step further , ) and you would hardly suppose , that writers for the publick , had any settled feeling of their responsibility , or stopped to ask ...
Look at the examination of political questions in our own land , ( for we need not go one step further , ) and you would hardly suppose , that writers for the publick , had any settled feeling of their responsibility , or stopped to ask ...
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But my gentlemen - fools chang'd their looks at the sight , And declar'd all the feast was a trance of delight . ... I smil❜d as I gaz'd on his lank hectick look , 16 His cravat that was white , and his antique peruke .
But my gentlemen - fools chang'd their looks at the sight , And declar'd all the feast was a trance of delight . ... I smil❜d as I gaz'd on his lank hectick look , 16 His cravat that was white , and his antique peruke .
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29 When I look for the name of a bard without fault , " Dame Reason says Virgil , but Rhyme says Quinault . ” " Yes , those are the lines , " said my Lord in a huff , " The whole piece , heaven knows , is insipid enough .
29 When I look for the name of a bard without fault , " Dame Reason says Virgil , but Rhyme says Quinault . ” " Yes , those are the lines , " said my Lord in a huff , " The whole piece , heaven knows , is insipid enough .
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in Rhyme | 68 |
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