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  • Looking at Pope's Essay on Criticism, he says "The gen'rous Critick fann'd the Poet's Fire,/ And taught the World, with Reason to Admire,"and why not?

    Archive 2006-07-01 Lemon Hound 2006

  • Looking at Pope's Essay on Criticism, he says "The gen'rous Critick fann'd the Poet's Fire,/ And taught the World, with Reason to Admire,"and why not?

    Notes toward an essay on criticism Lemon Hound 2006

  • "Mr. Carson be terrible gen'rous, Mr. Moore," John said in the darkness.

    Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

  • Each gen'rous heart with friendship's sacred fire;

    Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous

  • "You're real gen'rous, dear," said her hostess, and wheeling quickly to her, kissed her warmly.

    While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

  • "What a gen'rous little thing you are!" she cried wonderingly.

    While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

  • They was kind of a bilious brown and cut gen'rous in the seat; but, as far as real comic relief went, they wa'n't in it with the cute little short tailed cutaway that he sported above 'em.

    Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

  • You remember how he drew Twombley-Crane as the first one that he had to unload a kind and gen'rous act on, and how I made him give up the picture that he'd gloated over so long?

    Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

  • She's so kind and gen'rous - hearted that she makes it a pleasure fer folks to get all scalted with hot water!

    Marjorie's Vacation Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Too gen'rous for fraud, and too wise for mean art.

    Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 Edward Ziegler Davis 1901

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