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But through the town transpires each vent'rous deed.
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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But through the town transpires each vent'rous deed.
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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But through the town transpires each vent'rous deed.
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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O'er seas and rocks shall urge their vent'rous course;
Poems Anna Letitia 1773
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O'er seas and rocks shall urge their vent'rous course;
The Invitation Anna Letitia 1773
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Or drives his vent'rous plough-fhare to the fleep;
The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry 1781
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205: And vent'rous, if that fail them, shrink and fear
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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A Man may be too Hard, or too Eafy; too Ad - vent'rous or too Wary, in palling a Judgment upon the Character of the Periotv: But above all things, it will concern us perfectly to Underitand the Honour, the Practice, and the Conversation of the Man we Propofe for a Friend, before we lay any Strefs upon his Faith; Not but that we may believe Well of a Man, and yet not think fit to Trull him i So that a Charity on the One hand does not Authorize a Confidence on the Other:
Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692
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