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To write is easy ; but to write on thee , Truth would be thought to forfeit modesty . He'll seem a Poet that shall speak but true ; Hyperbole's in others , are thy due . Like a most servile flatterer he will show Though he write truth ...
To write is easy ; but to write on thee , Truth would be thought to forfeit modesty . He'll seem a Poet that shall speak but true ; Hyperbole's in others , are thy due . Like a most servile flatterer he will show Though he write truth ...
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If these essays shall raise some quainter pens ' Twill to the Writer make a rich amends . ... There's none this Providence of the Most High Who can survive and write its Elegy : But of a solitary town I write , A place of darkness yet ...
If these essays shall raise some quainter pens ' Twill to the Writer make a rich amends . ... There's none this Providence of the Most High Who can survive and write its Elegy : But of a solitary town I write , A place of darkness yet ...
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Wouldst not thee be ashamed to write unto a man who has never in his life done a single day's work , no , not even felled a tree ; who hath expended the Lord knows how many years in studying stars , geometry , stones , and flies ...
Wouldst not thee be ashamed to write unto a man who has never in his life done a single day's work , no , not even felled a tree ; who hath expended the Lord knows how many years in studying stars , geometry , stones , and flies ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Authors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Editors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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