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The Basset-Table : An Eclogue Alexander Pope	A Lover is lost, is but a common care; And prudent Nymphs against that change prepare: The Knave of Clubs thrice lost:...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Best - part 2 Nikhil Parekh	Prudent are those who sagaciously apprize, Turgid are those who ruthlessly baptize, Ominous are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Borough. Letter IV: Sects And Professions In Religion George Crabbe	Yet none the cool and prudent Teacher...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Borough. Letter XI: Inns George Crabbe	To recruit your lost spirits 'tis prudent to come, And to fly to a friend when the devil's at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Borough. Letter XVI: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Benlow George Crabbe	'Tis sometimes prudent not to speak the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Butterfly Ann Taylor	As do the bee and bird; Nor does it, like the prudent ant, Lay up the grain for times of want, A wise and cautious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Christian Slave John Greenleaf Whittier	Con well thy lesson o'er, Thou prudent teacher, tell the toiling slave No dangerous tale of Him who came to save The outcast and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Complaint: or Night Thoughts (excerpt) Edward Young	Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Contract La Fontaine	A prudent honest man as any round, To calm my mind, a nice specifick found; The pill was rather bitter,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Example of Vertu : Cantos I.-VII. Stephen Hawes	All that is wryten is to oure document O prudent Gower in langage pure Without corrupcyon moost facundyous O noble Chauser euer moost sure ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fight With The Dragon Friedrich Schiller	By cunning, and a prudent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter Matthew Prior	In purple bands; she gave the precious pledge To prudent Neda, charging her to guard thee Careful and secret: Neda, of the nymphs That tended the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hands of the Betrothed David Herbert Lawrence	Yea, and her mouth’s prudent and crude caress Means even less than her many words to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hesitating Veteran Ambrose Bierce	Grown prudent and, I think, more...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hoosier Folk-Child James Whitcomb Riley	Go, Pride, with prudent underbuzz-- Go...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The joy of crosses Maresal Musca	crosses refused to be prudent anymore so they met at night, at one’s grave – at the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Little Bell La Fontaine	The LAW supposes (such its prudent fears) Maturity at still more early years; But this apparently refers to towns, While LOVE...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland William Butler Yeats	And he had known at last some prudent years Before they heaped his grave under the hill; But while he passed before a plashy place,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mandrake La Fontaine	It seems a prudent woman he had wed, With beauty that might grace a monarch's bed; Young, brisk, good-humoured,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Muleteer La Fontaine	When vain it proved, he took a prudent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Naval Constructor Ambrose Bierce	He saw the swarm of prudent rats Swimming for land...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Oak And Its Branches. Mary Barber	Is it not prudent then, I pray, To guard against another...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Parish Register - Part II: Marriages George Crabbe	Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise approve This prudent maxim of the priest of Love; If poor, delay for future want prepares, And eases humble life...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Picture La Fontaine	Had free access: was thought a prudent friend, Who might to sisters many comforts lend; Was always closely shaved and nicely dressed;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poet's New-Year's Gift. To Mrs. (Afterwards Lady) Throckmorton William Cowper	To wish thee fairer is no need, More prudent, or more sprightly, Or more ingenuous, or more freed From temper-flaws...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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