Truth in FictionJ. Churchill, 1708 - 326 páginas |
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Página viii - ... sed veluti pueris absinthia taetra medentes cum dare conantur, prius oras pocula circum contingunt mellis dulci flavoque liquore, ut puerorum aetas impróvida ludificetur labrorum tenus, interea perpotet amarum...
Página 299 - You often saw me near, My Face in sev'ral Objects did appear ; I have not only your Coevals slain, ' Till but a few, a very few remain ; But Young-men, Children, New-born infants too, And all to caution and admonish you : All to remind you of your Mortal State, And that my Coming wou'd be sure, tho
Página 299 - ... sure, tho' late. When you perceiv'd your Eye-balls sink away, Your Hearing fail, and ev'ry Sense decay ; When you discern'd your Teeth forsake their Place, Your wrinkl'd Forehead, and your meagre Face ; Then you my Visage, in your own, might see, Which every Day was representing Me. When you observ'd your Blood begin to freeze, Your bowing Body, and your bending Knees ; While scarce your feeble Legs your Weight cou'd bear, Did not these Symptoms tell you I was near ? And can you yet pretend to...
Página 299 - ... forsake their Place, Your wrinkl'd Forehead, and your meagre Face ; Then you my Visage, in your own, might see, Which every Day was representing Me. When you observ'd your Blood begin to freeze, Your bowing Body, and your bending Knees ; While scarce your feeble Legs your Weight cou'd bear, Did not these Symptoms tell you I was near ? And can you yet pretend to be surpriz'd ? Then Die, your Folly shou'd be thus chastis'd. If 'till to-morrow, I your Life reprieve, You 'till to-morrow will deferr...
Página 75 - He fought her corpfe, and tho" his true intent Was not to find it, up the river went. A neighbour, that obferv'd his feeming pain, Which fuch wrong meafures needs muft render vain, Told him ; If what he fought, he...
Página iii - Every one that doth evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, led his deeds ihould be reproved.
Página 74 - WOMAN AND HUSBAND, A man, ill mated with a clam'rous wife, Who daily led him an unhappy life, A kind relief from Fate's indulgence found ; And (he, who ducking oft defcrv'd, was drown'd, He fought her corpfe, and tho' his true intent Was not to find it, up the river went.
Página ii - Medium's, and its Beams let gently in upon them, as it were through Chinks and Crannies. But they...
Página vi - Fables have finct come under the Shelter of his Name, as an Acknowledgment of his peculiar Excellency and "talent