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Poems

George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...Professions fruitful pour their offspring round ; Reasoners and Wits are next their place allow'd, And last, of vulgar tribesĀ» a countless crowd. First...o'erlaid, Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-prest leaves, unclos'd for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page ; On the...
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Poems

George Crabbe - 1808 - 276 pages
...Professions fruitful pour their offspring round ; Reasoners and Wits are next their place allow'd, And last, of vulgar tribes, a countless crowd. Fir,st...o'erlaid, Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-prest leaves, unclos'd for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page ; On the...
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Poems

George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...Professions fruitful pour their offspring round ; Reasoners and Wits are next their place allow'd, And last, of vulgar tribes, a countless crowd. First...o'erlaid, Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-prest leaves, unclos'd for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page ; On the...
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Poems

George Crabbe - 1808 - 274 pages
...their offspring round ; Reasoners and Wits are next their place allow'd, And last, of vulgar tf ibes, a countless crowd. First let us view the Form, the...o'erlaid, Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; ' The close-prest leaves, unclos'd for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page ; Oh the...
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Poems, Volume 2

George Crabbe - 1810 - 242 pages
...Professions fruitful pour their offspring round ; Reasoncrs and wits are next their place allow'd, And last, of vulgar tribes, a countless crowd. First...o'erlaid ; Those ample clasps, of solid metal made; The close-prest leaves, unclos'd for many an age ; The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page; On the...
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Poems, Volume 2

George Crabbe - 1812 - 240 pages
...wits are next their place allow'd, And last, of vulgar tribes, a countless crowd. First, let us tiew the form, the size, the dress ; For, these the manners,...o'erlaid ; Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-prest leaves, unclos'd for many an age ; The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page; On the...
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Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1

Walter Scott - Scotland - 1815 - 416 pages
...volumes which displayed the antique and venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet; That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The close-press'd leaves unclosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page, On the...
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The works of George Crabbe, Volume 1

George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pages
...Professions fruitful pour their offspring round ; Reasoners and wits are next their place allow'd, And last, of vulgar tribes, a countless crowd. First,...o'erlaid ; Those ample clasps, of solid metal made ; The close-prest leaves, nnclos'd for many an age ; The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page ; On the...
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Poems

George Crabbe - 1820 - 310 pages
...Professions fruitful pour their offspring round ; Reasoners and wits are next their place allow'd, And last, of vulgar tribes, a countless crowd. First, let us view the form, the size, the dress ; Tor, these the manners, nay the mind express ; That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid ;...
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Guy Mannering; or, The astrologer. By the author of 'Waverley'.

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 pages
...volumes which displayed the antique and venerable attributes so happily described by a modern poet, That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid leather made, The close-press'd leaves unclosed for many an age, The dull red edging of the well-fill'd...
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