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Nor could that temp'rate Clime such difference make,
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 1890
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Nor could that temp'rate Clime such difference make,
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878
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Wafts the bright gems to Britain's temp'rate vale,
Poems (1786), Volume I. Helen Maria Williams 1794
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Nor could that temp'rate Clime such difference make,
Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight 1678
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But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Blefs with an age exempt from fcorn or crime j An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Obeys Tiberius; nor is always ruPd With temp'rate fway j oft have they violated z6e The temple, oft the law with fowl affronts.
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But of co'se I swo'e that in a temper, an 'temp'rate vows ain't never made' cep'in 'to be repented of. "
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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