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... dull delight , The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb , nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That shunning faults , one quiet tenour keep ; We cannot blame indeed - but we may sleep ...
... dull delight , The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb , nor flow , Correctly cold , and regularly low , That shunning faults , one quiet tenour keep ; We cannot blame indeed - but we may sleep ...
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... dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes , With sure returns of still expected rhymes . Where - e'er you find ' the cooling western breeze ' , In the next line , it ' whispers thro ' the trees ' ; If crystal streams ...
... dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes , With sure returns of still expected rhymes . Where - e'er you find ' the cooling western breeze ' , In the next line , it ' whispers thro ' the trees ' ; If crystal streams ...
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... dull ; Such , without wit , are Poets when they please , As without learning they can take Degrees . Leave dang❜rous truths to unsuccessful Satyrs , And flattery to fulsome Dedicators ; 580 585 590 Whom , when they praise , the world ...
... dull ; Such , without wit , are Poets when they please , As without learning they can take Degrees . Leave dang❜rous truths to unsuccessful Satyrs , And flattery to fulsome Dedicators ; 580 585 590 Whom , when they praise , the world ...
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