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A Portrait
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Yet she by fate’s perverseness—she alone
Would doubt our truth, nor deem such praise her...
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Bedfordshire Ballad. - III.
Edward Woodley Bowling
But always had failed thro' perverseness and...
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Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ]
William Wordsworth
The morning shines,
Nor heedeth Man's perverseness; Spring returns,--
I saw the Spring return, and could rejoice,
In common with the children of...
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Daphne
Jonathan Swift
Never hears what you can say;
Still her odd perverseness shows
Chiefly where she nothing knows;
And, where she is most familiar,
Always peevisher...
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Foes
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
With that perverseness born in man
I nerved myself, and won the...
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The Ballade Of The Automobile
Ellis Parker Butler
But when, with perverseness most condign,
In the same harsh snowstorm, cold and keen,
My auto stops at the six-mile...
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The King's Experiment
Thomas Hardy
Such mad perverseness who may...
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The Ladle. A Tale
Matthew Prior
Could from our own perverseness ease us,
And if our wish enjoy'd would please us,
Discoursing largely on this theme,
O'er...
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To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems
Jonathan Swift
Conviction does but more incense;
Perverseness is your whole defence;
Truth, judgment, wit, give place to spite,
Regardless both of wrong...
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To The Countess Of Bedford II
John Donne
Virtue has some perverseness, for she will
Neither believe her good, nor others'...
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