Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 838
... fair man , a ferjeant in the guards ; the other black , a butcher : the ferjeant had red breeches , the butcher blue : they sought upon a ftage about four o'clock , and the ferjeant wound . ed the butcher in the leg . " Mark ( quoth ...
... fair man , a ferjeant in the guards ; the other black , a butcher : the ferjeant had red breeches , the butcher blue : they sought upon a ftage about four o'clock , and the ferjeant wound . ed the butcher in the leg . " Mark ( quoth ...
Page 1024
... fair in wise man's eye . He that hath little is the less dirty . Good counsel breaks no man's head . Fly the pleasure that will bite to - mor- TOW . Woe be to the house where there is no chiding . The greatest step is that out of doors ...
... fair in wise man's eye . He that hath little is the less dirty . Good counsel breaks no man's head . Fly the pleasure that will bite to - mor- TOW . Woe be to the house where there is no chiding . The greatest step is that out of doors ...
Page 1034
... fair , look to your purse . Play not with a man till you hurt him , nor jest till you shame him . Eating more than you should at once , makes you eat less afterward . He makes his grief light who thinks it so . He thinks but ill who ...
... fair , look to your purse . Play not with a man till you hurt him , nor jest till you shame him . Eating more than you should at once , makes you eat less afterward . He makes his grief light who thinks it so . He thinks but ill who ...
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