Doctor Syntax : His Three Tours in Search of the Picturesque, of Consolation, of a WifeFrederick Warne & Company, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, 1874 - 374 pages |
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... learned pains , And will with bounteous store , re- pay Your anxious toil of many a day ; For well , my dearest friend , I know Where'er you are compell'd to go , You still must sigh that you should be So long away from Love and me . I ...
... learned pains , And will with bounteous store , re- pay Your anxious toil of many a day ; For well , my dearest friend , I know Where'er you are compell'd to go , You still must sigh that you should be So long away from Love and me . I ...
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... learned men as you : Nor can I urge your longer stay , When Science calls you far away : But still I hope you'll not refuse My friendly tribute to the Muse ; And , when again you this way come , Again you'll find this house a home ...
... learned men as you : Nor can I urge your longer stay , When Science calls you far away : But still I hope you'll not refuse My friendly tribute to the Muse ; And , when again you this way come , Again you'll find this house a home ...
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... learned Clerk Will take a gallop in the Park . " SYNTAX . [ take , " Your sport , my Lord , I cannot | For I must go and hunt a lake ; And while you chace the flying deer , I must fly off to Windermere , ' Stead of hallooing to a fox ...
... learned Clerk Will take a gallop in the Park . " SYNTAX . [ take , " Your sport , my Lord , I cannot | For I must go and hunt a lake ; And while you chace the flying deer , I must fly off to Windermere , ' Stead of hallooing to a fox ...
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... learned Doctor , see When that important hour shall be ? " SYNTAX . Soon as the morn began to break , Old Grizzle bore him to the Lake , Along the banks he gravely pac'd , And all its various beauties trac'd ; When , lo , a threat'ning ...
... learned Doctor , see When that important hour shall be ? " SYNTAX . Soon as the morn began to break , Old Grizzle bore him to the Lake , Along the banks he gravely pac'd , And all its various beauties trac'd ; When , lo , a threat'ning ...
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... learned friend , That you have not attained your end ; That all your figures and your tropes Have not fulfill'd your rightful hopes ? I should suppose your shining parts , And above all your flatt'ring arts , Would soon have turn'd your ...
... learned friend , That you have not attained your end ; That all your figures and your tropes Have not fulfill'd your rightful hopes ? I should suppose your shining parts , And above all your flatt'ring arts , Would soon have turn'd your ...
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