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21.
Tell me why sauntering thus from place to place
First Line:
Tell me why sauntering thus from place to place
Last Line:
As to the syrens charms Ulysses mariners
Author:
Stephen Harvey (Absolute)
DMI number:
7243
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This day's this joyful day's solemnity
First Line:
This day's this joyful day's solemnity
Last Line:
Nor ever be nor ever find a friend
DMI number:
7246
23.
There is a lust in man no charm can tame
First Line:
There is a lust in man no charm can tame
Last Line:
While virtuous actions are but born and die
Author:
Stephen Harvey (Absolute)
DMI number:
5608
24.
Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel
First Line:
Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel
Last Line:
Thy satire point and animate thy page
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
21899
25.
What shan't we pray but let the gods decree
First Line:
What shan't we pray but let the gods decree
Last Line:
Folly alone exalts her to the skies
DMI number:
21645
26.
What vast prerogatives my Gallus are
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What vast prerogatives my Gallus are
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Sometimes be lousy but be never poor
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
7250
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What's the advantage or the real good
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What's the advantage or the real good
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But a poor shepherd's boy or something worse
Author:
George Stepney (Absolute)
DMI number:
7242
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Where charming airs from senseless stones rebound
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Where charming airs from senseless stones rebound
Last Line:
Had wished the author near Charibdis drowned
DMI number:
6414
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