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| | At once to please and to confound the sight. Cowley.The Davideis, Book III. Line 192. | 1 |
We that live to please, must please to live. Dr. Johnson.Prologue 1747, Line 54. | 2 |
They who are pleased themselves must always please. Thomson.The Castle of Indolence, Canto I. Stanza 15. | 3 |
Behold the child, by natures kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Pope.Essay on Man, Epistle II. Line 275. | 4 | | |
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