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 676
... wife ? Obferve the other now , in the first place , fallying out on a fudden from his feat ; for what reafon ? in the evening ; what urged him ? late ; to what purpose , efpe- cially at that feafon ? He calls at Pom- pey's feat ; with ...
... wife ? Obferve the other now , in the first place , fallying out on a fudden from his feat ; for what reafon ? in the evening ; what urged him ? late ; to what purpose , efpe- cially at that feafon ? He calls at Pom- pey's feat ; with ...
Page 990
... wife , and fhewed me to her ; but the fcreamed and ran back , as women in Eng - chievous all children among us naturally land do at the fight of a toad or of a fpider . However , when the had a while feen my behaviour , and how well I ...
... wife , and fhewed me to her ; but the fcreamed and ran back , as women in Eng - chievous all children among us naturally land do at the fight of a toad or of a fpider . However , when the had a while feen my behaviour , and how well I ...
Page 1035
... wife , make a man run out of doors . There is no to- morrow for an asking friend . God keep me from still water , from that which is rough I will keep myself . Take your wife's first advice , not her second . Tell not what you know ...
... wife , make a man run out of doors . There is no to- morrow for an asking friend . God keep me from still water , from that which is rough I will keep myself . Take your wife's first advice , not her second . Tell not what you know ...
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