Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose ...T. Longman, 1796 - 1008 pàgines |
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Pàgina 554
... moft form in [ birth . When great things labouring perish in their The Effects of Love . mirth , For your fair fakes have we neglected time , Play'd foul play with our oaths ; your beauty , ladies , [ mours Hath much deform'd us ...
... moft form in [ birth . When great things labouring perish in their The Effects of Love . mirth , For your fair fakes have we neglected time , Play'd foul play with our oaths ; your beauty , ladies , [ mours Hath much deform'd us ...
Pàgina 556
... moft biting laws , ( The needful bits and curbs to headstrong feeds ) Which for thefe nineteen years we have let fleep ; Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave , That goes not out to prey : now , as fond fathers , Having bound up the ...
... moft biting laws , ( The needful bits and curbs to headstrong feeds ) Which for thefe nineteen years we have let fleep ; Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave , That goes not out to prey : now , as fond fathers , Having bound up the ...
Pàgina 557
... Moft pond'rous. Found out the remedy . How would you be , If he , which is the top of judgment , fhould But judge you as you are ? Oh ' think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips , Like man new made . Unprepared Death ...
... Moft pond'rous. Found out the remedy . How would you be , If he , which is the top of judgment , fhould But judge you as you are ? Oh ' think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips , Like man new made . Unprepared Death ...
Pàgina 558
... moft When it doth tax itself : as thefe black masks Proclaim an enthiel'd beauty ten times louder Than beauty could difplay'd . Heroic Female Virtue . Ang . Admit no other way to fave his life ( As I fubfcribe not that , or any other ...
... moft When it doth tax itself : as thefe black masks Proclaim an enthiel'd beauty ten times louder Than beauty could difplay'd . Heroic Female Virtue . Ang . Admit no other way to fave his life ( As I fubfcribe not that , or any other ...
Pàgina 560
... moft guilty diligence , In action all of precept , he did fhew me The way twice o'er . Greatness fubje & t to Cenfure . O place and greatnefs ! millions of falfe eyes Are tuck upon thee ; volumes of report Run with these falfe and moft ...
... moft guilty diligence , In action all of precept , he did fhew me The way twice o'er . Greatness fubje & t to Cenfure . O place and greatnefs ! millions of falfe eyes Are tuck upon thee ; volumes of report Run with these falfe and moft ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 715 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Pàgina 622 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Pàgina 714 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Pàgina 548 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Pàgina 621 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Pàgina 619 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent...
Pàgina 620 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Pàgina 570 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Pàgina 683 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Pàgina 548 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.