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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Though the herd of the hoard him sleeping beguil'd he
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Wilt not thou do thy part? yes, else I am beguil'd.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Breath'd their pure spirit, while her charms beguil'd
Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace Anna Seward 1775
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And spread his vegetable store, And gayly prest, and smil'd; And skill'd in legendary lore, The lingering hours beguil'd.
The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1752
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While treach'rous smiles beguil'd her soul distrest.
The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1736
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[But oh the Pow'rs, by treacherous snakes beguil'd,] ibid. l.
Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden Elkanah Settle 1686
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Both held in hand, [100] and flatly both beguil'd?
The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe 1578
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Here's right the father's smile; when Mars beguil'd Sick Venus of her heart, just thus he smil'd.
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