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The selected word "would" appears 16 times in the following 9 texts (sorted by titles):

  1. Agrippina, a Tragedy  (1 result)
            11    And would have dropped, but that her pride restrained it?

  2. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard  (2 results)
          103    'His listless length at noontide would he stretch,
          106    'Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove,

  3. [Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1.  (2 results)
            31    Yet would the tyrant Love permit me raise
            39    Not Marius' Cimbrian wreaths would I relate,

  4. [Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]  (1 result)
            37    Would tire alike your patience and my muse.

  5. A Long Story  (5 results)
            34    Coarse panegyrics would but tease her.
            36    Alas, who would not wish to please her!
            93    The godhead would have backed his quarrel,
          127    'Numbers would give their oaths upon it,
          143    That to eternity would sing,

  6. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College  (1 result)
            98    Thought would destroy their paradise.

  7. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode  (1 result)
          118    Yet oft before his infant eyes would run

  8. Song II  (1 result)
              2    Ere the spring he would return.

  9. [Translation from Dante, Inferno Canto xxxiii 1-78]  (2 results)
              4    Began: 'Would'st thou revive the deep despair,
            57    What would you have?' Yet wept I not or answered

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