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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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FRAGMENTS FROM THEOGNIS.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM “THE POEM OF THE CID.”
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[They fain would sally forth, but he, the noble Cid]
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MISCELLANEOUS TRANSLATIONS.
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TRANSLATIONS OF SOME OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID.

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Learning and wealth, the wise and wealthy find
Inadequate to satisfy the mind;
A craving eagerness remains behind;
Something is left, for which we cannot rest;
And the last something always seems the best,
Something unknown, or something unpossest.
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