Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, & Entertaining, in Poetry ... Being Similar in Design to Extracts in Prose, Volums 1-2Rivingtons, 1791 - 944 pàgines |
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Pàgina 71
... faid : " Well can my friends this envied truth maintain ; Theyfhare myblifs , they beft can speak my praife : Tho ' Slander call me Sloth ( detraction vain ! ) Heed not what Slander , vain detracter , fays ; Slander , ftill prompt true ...
... faid : " Well can my friends this envied truth maintain ; Theyfhare myblifs , they beft can speak my praife : Tho ' Slander call me Sloth ( detraction vain ! ) Heed not what Slander , vain detracter , fays ; Slander , ftill prompt true ...
Pàgina 76
... faid , in days of old , Efteem'd their girls more choice than gold ; Too well a daughter's worth they knew , To make her cheap by public view : Few , who their diamonds ' value weigh , Expofe thofe diamonds ev'ry day . Then , if Sir ...
... faid , in days of old , Efteem'd their girls more choice than gold ; Too well a daughter's worth they knew , To make her cheap by public view : Few , who their diamonds ' value weigh , Expofe thofe diamonds ev'ry day . Then , if Sir ...
Pàgina 80
... faid , and blefs'd the fair retreat ; • Here would I pass my remnant days , ' Unknown to cenfure or to praise ; Forget the world , and be forgot , As Pope defcribes his veftal's lot . ' While thus I mus'd , a beauteous maid Stepp'd from ...
... faid , and blefs'd the fair retreat ; • Here would I pass my remnant days , ' Unknown to cenfure or to praise ; Forget the world , and be forgot , As Pope defcribes his veftal's lot . ' While thus I mus'd , a beauteous maid Stepp'd from ...
Pàgina 83
... faid - and straight we march'd along To join Ambition's active throng : Crowds urg'd on crowds with eager pace , And happy he who led the race . Axes and daggers lay unfeen In ambuscade along the green : While vapours fhed delufive ...
... faid - and straight we march'd along To join Ambition's active throng : Crowds urg'd on crowds with eager pace , And happy he who led the race . Axes and daggers lay unfeen In ambuscade along the green : While vapours fhed delufive ...
Pàgina 89
... faid , that wedlock was defign'd By gracious Heaven to match the mind ; 1 pair the tender and the juft , And his the delegated truft : The Wealth had play'd a knavish part , And taught the tongue to wrong the heart . Bwhat avails the ...
... faid , that wedlock was defign'd By gracious Heaven to match the mind ; 1 pair the tender and the juft , And his the delegated truft : The Wealth had play'd a knavish part , And taught the tongue to wrong the heart . Bwhat avails the ...
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