The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen9Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... fwell her fustian stuff , A new commode , a top - knot , and a ruff , Her face patch'd o'er with modern pedantry , With a long fweeping train Of comments and disputes , ridiculous and vain , All of old cut with a new dye : How foon have ...
... fwell her fustian stuff , A new commode , a top - knot , and a ruff , Her face patch'd o'er with modern pedantry , With a long fweeping train Of comments and disputes , ridiculous and vain , All of old cut with a new dye : How foon have ...
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... fwell , Because they see me us'd fo well : " How think you of our friend the Dean ! " I wonder what fome people mean ? " My lord and he are grown fo great , 46 Always together , tête à tête ; " What ! they admire him for his jokes ...
... fwell , Because they see me us'd fo well : " How think you of our friend the Dean ! " I wonder what fome people mean ? " My lord and he are grown fo great , 46 Always together , tête à tête ; " What ! they admire him for his jokes ...
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... fwell the bills ; My dearest life , it is surprising How much he eats , how much he fwills . His brace of puppies how they stuff ! And they must have three meals a day , Yet never think they get enough ; His horfes too eat all our hay ...
... fwell the bills ; My dearest life , it is surprising How much he eats , how much he fwills . His brace of puppies how they stuff ! And they must have three meals a day , Yet never think they get enough ; His horfes too eat all our hay ...
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... fwell'd like any porpoife , He heys from hence at forty - four ( But by his leave he finks a fcore ) To the Eaft Indies , there to cheat , Till he can purchase an estate ; Where , after he has fill'd his cheft , He'll mount his tub ...
... fwell'd like any porpoife , He heys from hence at forty - four ( But by his leave he finks a fcore ) To the Eaft Indies , there to cheat , Till he can purchase an estate ; Where , after he has fill'd his cheft , He'll mount his tub ...
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... fwell'd the Dee , Enrag'd , as Ern would do at thee . How different is this from Smedley ! ( His name is up , he may in bed lie ) " Who only afks fome pretty cure , " In wholefome foil and æther pure ; " The garden ftor'd with artless ...
... fwell'd the Dee , Enrag'd , as Ern would do at thee . How different is this from Smedley ! ( His name is up , he may in bed lie ) " Who only afks fome pretty cure , " In wholefome foil and æther pure ; " The garden ftor'd with artless ...
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Página 142 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Página 213 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 365 - To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, three in one, Be honor, praise, and glory given, By all on earth, and all in heaven.
Página 539 - Beautiful in various dyes : The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir, that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
Página 23 - Now angry Somerset her vengeance vows On Swift's reproaches for her From her red locks her mouth with venom fills, And thence into the royal ear instils. The queen, incensed, his services forgot, Leaves him a victim to the vengeful Scot. Now through the realm a proclamation spread* To fix a price on his devoted head; "While, innocent, he scorns ignoble flight, His watchful friends preserve him by a sleight.
Página 512 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Página 509 - Till, faint and weak, Secander thus began : SECANDER. O stay thee, Agib, for my feet deny, No longer friendly to my life, to fly. Friend of my heart, O turn thee <* Trace our sad flight through all its length of way...
Página 186 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 367 - Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment: All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven He descended And became a child like thee! Soft and easy is thy cradle: Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay, When His birthplace was a stable And His softest bed was hay.
Página 514 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.