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... lass Ay and I love her still And whilst that virtue warms my breast I'll love my handsome Nell Fal lal de dal & c . As bonny lasses I hae seen , And mony full as braw ; But for a modest gracefu ' mien , The like I never saw . The fifth ...
... lass Ay and I love her still And whilst that virtue warms my breast I'll love my handsome Nell Fal lal de dal & c . As bonny lasses I hae seen , And mony full as braw ; But for a modest gracefu ' mien , The like I never saw . The fifth ...
Page 82
... lass in view - I say that I do not see that the turn of mind & pursuits of such a one are in the least more ... lasses may be more fundamentally religious than those who practice the ' lawful , bustling , & straining after the ...
... lass in view - I say that I do not see that the turn of mind & pursuits of such a one are in the least more ... lasses may be more fundamentally religious than those who practice the ' lawful , bustling , & straining after the ...
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... lasses , O. He then builds the song up to a gradual climax of extravagance and ends with a deft compliment to the lasses ( a fine , skilfully phrased adaptation of an idea he probably found , more elaborately expressed , in Pope ) ...
... lasses , O. He then builds the song up to a gradual climax of extravagance and ends with a deft compliment to the lasses ( a fine , skilfully phrased adaptation of an idea he probably found , more elaborately expressed , in Pope ) ...
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