An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection: with Several Pieces Never Before Published. A New Ed., Including Pieces Not in the Former Edition, and Several Never Before Printed, Volumen3

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J. Debrett, 1795
 

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Página 26 - Chiare, fresche e dolci acque ove le belle membra pose colei che sola a me par donna; gentil ramo, ove piacque (con sospir mi rimembra!) a lei, di fare al bel fianco colonna; erba, e fior che la gonna leggiadra ricoverse con l'angelico seno; aer sacro sereno, ove Amor co' begli occhi il cor m' aperse : date udienza insieme alle dolenti mie parole estreme.
Página 68 - Viva! viva la padrona! Tutta bella, e tutta buona, La padrona e un angiolella Tutta buona e tutta bella; Tutta bella e tutta buona; Viva! viva la padrona!" "Long may live my lovely Hetty!
Página 59 - Tell not the mifer that he fcoms expence. ' Nor praife the learning of a dunce profeft, ' Nor fwear a floven's elegantly dreft. * Thus, if by chance, in harmlefs fport and play, * You coolly talk a character away;
Página 66 - Chiefs confus'd in mutual slaughter, Moor and Christian roll along. But sir, said I, this is not ridiculous at all. "Why no (replied he), why should I always write ridiculously? — perhaps because I made these verses to imitate such a one, naming him: Hermit hoar, in...
Página 46 - tis alike to me If my favorite dove be stole, Whether its dainty feathers be Pluck'd by the eagle or the owl. If not for -me its blushing lips The rose-bud opens, what care I Who the odorous liquid sips The king of bees or butterfly ? Like me, the Indians of Peru, Rich in mines of golden...
Página 173 - But hark, — the wealthy lord Has heard, — his daughter brings the fruit To grace Corone's board. • Ye gods ! let fuitors come from far, To win the lovely maid ; And may...
Página 65 - When Streatham spread its plenteous board, I open'd Learning's valued hoard, And as I feasted prosed. Good things I said, good things I eat, I gave you knowledge for your meat, And thought th
Página 174 - India's sultry bound, From regions girded by the burning zone, Her all-attentive ear, with sigh profound Has heard the captive moan : Has heard, and ardent in the cause , Of all, that free by Nature's laws, The avarice of her sons...
Página 205 - Then let my sighs and tears but prove The winds and waves that waft to love.
Página 69 - In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, And born in bed, in bed we die; The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.

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