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And Earth's wide bounds, belong much fam'd to thee:
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The following year a set of 12 trio sonatas was published; according to the preface they were written after the manner of ‘fam'd Italian masters’—meaning Cazzati and Colista rather than Corelli.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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To the sinewy ring a fam'd flower, the gymnasium's applause.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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To the sinewy ring a fam'd flower, the gymnasium's applause.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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'Tis true, you are fam'd for the net you have made, Pray what did you catch in't but horns for your head; You know that your rival don't value a trap, Or a net, any more than a child or a clap; A soldier is never asham'd of his vices, But rather is proud of a Goddess's kisses;
The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies Anonymous
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With gods and heroes -- honour'd, lov'd, and fam'd.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829 Various
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This Gentleman is one of the most fam'd Poets, and that not undeservedly of the present age, excelling in the charming Sweets of his Lyrick Odes, or amorous Sonnets, as also in his other occasional
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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To the sinewy ring a fam'd flower, the gymnasium's applause.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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By this has _reach'd_ at least the fam'd _Lutrine_.
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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"Where fam'd St. Giles's ancient limits spread," the matutinal huckster may be seen administering to costermongers, hackney-coachmen, and "fair women without discretion," a fluid "all hot, all hot," ycleped by the initiated elder wine, which, we should think, might give the partakers a tolerable notion of the fermenting beverage extracted by Tartars from mare's milk not particularly fresh.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 Various
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