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Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick: Interspersed with Characters and ... - Page 111
by Thomas Davies - 1780
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The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 pages
...please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued nature and reviving sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, 55 As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tis Yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth...
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Life of Samuel Johnson

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 140 pages
...please, must please, to live. Then prompt no more the follies to decry. As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth,...
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Johnson & Goldsmith & Their Poetry

William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...please must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die. 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth...
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The Shorter Poems of the Eighteenth Century

Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 pages
...please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescu'd Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, For useful Mirth,...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the Follies you decry, As Tyrants doom their Tools of Guilt to die ; 'Tis yours this Night to bid the Reign commence Of rescu'd Nature, and reviving Sense ; To chase the Charms of Sound, the Pomp of Show, For useful Mirth,...
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Prize Poems, Odes and Prologues

18?? - 128 pages
...please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature, and reviving Sense; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth...
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