The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author, Volumen2Little, Brown, 1854 - 356 páginas |
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Página 147 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
Página 147 - With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet seaboy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king?
Página 70 - Is the spirit of concord to go hand in hand with the peace and excise through this nation? Is it to be expected between an insolent exciseman and a peer, gentleman, freeholder, or farmer, whose private houses are now made liable to be entered and searched at pleasure?
Página 214 - While they were inquiring and deliberating, they were summoned into the girl's chamber by some ladies who were near her bed, and who had heard knocks and scratches.
Página 147 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge; And in the visitation of the winds...
Página 302 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said; Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment fliee. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame ; Before true passion all those views remove ; Fame, wealth, and honour ! what are you to love...
Página 172 - Jack, child, what had I for dinner yesterday?" " Don't you remember, Sir? you had the little shoulder of mutton that you ordered me to bring from a woman in the market.
Página 215 - ... into the vault. The spirit was solemnly required to perform its promise, but nothing more than silence ensued : the person supposed to be accused by the spirit, then went down with several others, but no effect was perceived. Upon their return they examined the girl, but could draw no confession from her. Between two and three she desired and was permitted to go home with her father. " It is, therefore, the opinion of the whole assembly, that the child has some art of making or counterfeiting...
Página 44 - And was so proud, that should he meet The Twelve Apostles in the street, He'd turn his nose up at them all, And shove his Saviour from the wall...
Página 302 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!