Miscellanies, in Prose and Verse, on Various Occasions,

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author, and sold, 1776 - English literature - 214 pages
 

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Page 173 - I'd be a Dog, a Monkey or a Bear, Or any thing, but that vain Animal, Who is so proud of being rational.
Page 88 - Curfe on all laws but thofe which love has made? Love, free as air, at fight of human ties, Spreads his light wings; and in a moment flies.
Page 71 - ... man and wife. The fpirit of love has fomething fo extremely fine in it, that it is very often difturbed and loft, by fome little accidents, which the carelefs and unpolite never attend to, until it is gone paft recovery.
Page 187 - ... feem proper, according to the heinoufnefs of the crime, and the circumftances of the offender.

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