Don Juan: Cantos XII.-XIII.-and XIVJohn Hunt, 1823 - 168 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... and Steam - boats of vapour ; While sages write against all procreation , Unless a man can calculate his means Of feeding brats the moment his wife weans . XXII . That's noble ! That's romantic ! For my CANTO XII . 15 DON JUAN .
... and Steam - boats of vapour ; While sages write against all procreation , Unless a man can calculate his means Of feeding brats the moment his wife weans . XXII . That's noble ! That's romantic ! For my CANTO XII . 15 DON JUAN .
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... mean to abuse you all— I have always liked you better than I state : Since I've grown moral , still I must accuse you Of being apt to talk at a great rate ; And now there was a general sensation Amongst you , about Leila's education ...
... mean to abuse you all— I have always liked you better than I state : Since I've grown moral , still I must accuse you Of being apt to talk at a great rate ; And now there was a general sensation Amongst you , about Leila's education ...
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... rigid guardian , or a zealous priest , My Muse by exhortion means to mend All people , at all times and in most places ; Which puts my Pegasus to these grave paces . XL . But now I'm going to be immoral ; 24 CANTO XII . DON JUAN .
... rigid guardian , or a zealous priest , My Muse by exhortion means to mend All people , at all times and in most places ; Which puts my Pegasus to these grave paces . XL . But now I'm going to be immoral ; 24 CANTO XII . DON JUAN .
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... mean to show things really as they are , Not as they ought to be : for I avow , That till we see what's what in fact , we're far From much improvement with that virtuous plough Which skims the surface , leaving scarce a scar Upon the ...
... mean to show things really as they are , Not as they ought to be : for I avow , That till we see what's what in fact , we're far From much improvement with that virtuous plough Which skims the surface , leaving scarce a scar Upon the ...
Pàgina 29
... means every day - they'd shown An awkward inclination to go wrong . The quantity of good she did's unknown , Or at the least would lengthen out my song : - In brief , the little orphan of the East Had raised an interest in her which ...
... means every day - they'd shown An awkward inclination to go wrong . The quantity of good she did's unknown , Or at the least would lengthen out my song : - In brief , the little orphan of the East Had raised an interest in her which ...
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AYSGARTH Blank-Blank Square Buckler Bushmen CANTO XII Cape Cape Town Cash charming chaste court Danby Wiske DON JUAN doth doubt dull e'er EGGLESTONE ABBEY engraved eyes fair fame Font friends gainst gaze Genadendal gentle gentlemen Grace hate hath heart Heysham History HORNBY CASTLE Hottentot J. M. W. Turner Karró Kirklington Church Lady Adeline least leave less Litákun LONDON Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet Lord Henry mankind marriage Marrick Middiman Miss moral Mountains Muse ne'er never noble Norman Conquest Note nought o'er passion Perhaps pity Plates pleasure Portrait praise Price 11 PRINTED FOR LONGMAN reader rhyme RICHMOND RICHMOND CASTLE RICHMONDSHIRE Roffe sage Saint scarce seen SHARON TURNER slight soul South-east View stanza stood strange tell there's things thou thought Tis true TRAVELS truth twas twill unto virtue Vols Volume what's wild Wiske Church woman XXXIII young youth
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Pàgina 112 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
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Pàgina 87 - Amidst the court a Gothic fountain play'd, Symmetrical, but deck'd with, carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.
Pàgina 165 - Tis strange, — but true ; for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction : if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange ; How differently the world would men behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change I The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind their souls
Pàgina 138 - There's nought in this bad world like sympathy : 'Tis so becoming to the soul and face ; Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh, And robes sweet Friendship in a Brussels lace. Without a friend, what were humanity, To hunt our errors up with a good grace ? Consoling us with — " Would you had thought twice ! " Ah ! if you had but follow'd my advice !
Pàgina 85 - The annals of full many a line undone, — The gallant cavaliers, who fought in vain For those who knew not to resign or reign.
Pàgina 121 - Besides, my Muse by no means deals in fiction : She gathers a repertory of facts, Of course with some reserve and slight restriction, But mostly sings of human things and acts — And that's one cause she meets with contradiction ; For too much truth, at first sight, ne'er attracts ; And were her object only what's call'd glory, With more ease too she'd tell a different story.
Pàgina 140 - I told you so," Utter'd by friends, those prophets of the past, Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last, And solace your slight lapse 'gainst " bonos mores," With a long memorandum of old stories.
Pàgina 106 - Or sauntered through the gardens piteously, And made upon the hot-house several strictures, Or rode a nag, which trotted not too high, Or on the morning papers read their lectures, Or on the watch their longing eyes would fix, Longing at sixty for the hour of six. • cm. But none were