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A Letter Written For My Daughter To A Lady, Who Had Presented Her With A Cap. Mary Barber	``Know, Girl, (says she) that Affectation ``Suits only those in higher Station; ``Who plead Prescription for their Rule, ``Whene'er...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At Silence & Uncertainty Glenn Marchand	question priority—to debate the affectation—how many will end up in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Birthmark Lawrence S. Pertillar	Or an applied and practiced...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
captain saleem Thank you sir saleem	Love and affectation while admonishing on time Bringing intonation while Having patient Makes a seed the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Impersonation Wallace Dean LaBenne	Your quirky affectation, imitated by lampoon, is dramatization of a ridiculous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Improvisatore, The Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Say another word, and we will call it downright...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly Wallace Stevens	Whose blunt laws make an affectation of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Thomas Gent	And affectation swells th' entrancing tones, Which nature subjugates, and truth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love: An Elegy Mark Akenside	Affectation walks; And dull Half-sense, for Wit and Wisdom...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love; An Elegy Mark Akenside	Affectation walks; And dull Half-sense, for Wit and Wisdom...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode VI: To William Hall, Esquire: With The Works Of Chaulieu Mark Akenside	While wit from affectation clear, Bright images, and passions true, Recall to thy assenting view The envied bards of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
One Angel Glenn Marchand	unless, some other influence, a 3rd eye, a numen affectation, a crazed soul—Love too damn alluring … like it was said, the game will change, one...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
priSteen Seth Thibodeaux	esteemed providence has fallen…a feeble affectation now seeded, never a love, just avidity...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Puke Victoria Maier	I hate being around you when drinking is your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day William Cowper	Of idle mirth, and affectation coy; To blend good sense with elegance and ease; To bid Affliction's eye no longer stream;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tale X George Crabbe	And to the dance with buoyant spirits come; No affectation in their looks is seen, Nor know they what disguise aud flattery mean; Nor aught to move...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Improvisatore Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Say another word, and we will call it downright...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Journey Charles Churchill	With bloated style, by affectation taught, With much false colouring, and little thought, With phrases strange, and dialect...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Origin Of Flattery Charlotte Smith	And nature's blush to sickly art gave place, And affectation seized the seat of grace: No more simplicity by sense refined, Or generous sentiment,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Palace of the Seven Stories Letitia Elizabeth Landon	works in progress, the king, with a whimsical affectation of justice, surrounded them with a high...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 Alexander Pope	There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen, Practis'd to lisp, and hang...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Three Friends Charles Lamb	All that pity and compassion, She believed was affectation; In her heart she doubted whether Mary cared a pin for either; She could keep whole weeks...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Wrist Watch Man Edgar Albert Guest	And it's not for affectation there's a watch upon his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Romance George Gordon Lord Byron	Far from thy motley court I fly, Where Affectation holds her seat, And sickly Sensibility; Whose silly tears can never flow For any...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)