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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere
Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)

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VOL I.
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VOL II
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FRAGMENTS FROM THEOGNIS.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM “THE POEM OF THE CID.”
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MISCELLANEOUS TRANSLATIONS.
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TRANSLATIONS OF SOME OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID.

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The generous and the brave, in common fame,
From time to time encounter praise or blame:
The vulgar pass unheeded; none escape
Scandal or insult in some form or shape.
Most fortunate are those, alive or dead,
Of whom the least is thought—the least is said.
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