Select epigrams, Volumen1S. Low, 1797 |
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... ( faid old Lyce ) senseless lover , go , " And with foft verses court the fair : but know , " With all thy verses , thou canst get no more " Than fools , without one verfe , have had before . " Enrag'd at this , upon the bawd I flew ; And ...
... ( faid old Lyce ) senseless lover , go , " And with foft verses court the fair : but know , " With all thy verses , thou canst get no more " Than fools , without one verfe , have had before . " Enrag'd at this , upon the bawd I flew ; And ...
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... faid Baron Le Cras , Perceiving his mistress had one eye of glafs : And scarcely had he spoke it , When fhe , more confus'd as more angry fhe grew , By a negligent rage prov'd the maxim too true She dropt the eye , and broke it . - A ...
... faid Baron Le Cras , Perceiving his mistress had one eye of glafs : And scarcely had he spoke it , When fhe , more confus'd as more angry fhe grew , By a negligent rage prov'd the maxim too true She dropt the eye , and broke it . - A ...
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... hand , And , finishing the piece , fhe fmiling faid , " Behold one work of mine that ne'er fhall fade . " A Flemish Painter , famous for his fruit and flowers , DEMOCRITUS AND HERACLITUS . BY THE SAME . DEMOCRITUS , [ 19 ]
... hand , And , finishing the piece , fhe fmiling faid , " Behold one work of mine that ne'er fhall fade . " A Flemish Painter , famous for his fruit and flowers , DEMOCRITUS AND HERACLITUS . BY THE SAME . DEMOCRITUS , [ 19 ]
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... faid , While Procris panted in the secret shade ; Ovid . Every reader of this book may not be a reader of " Procris , the fond wife of Cephalus , is faid to have made her husband , who delighted in the sports of the wood , a prefent of ...
... faid , While Procris panted in the secret shade ; Ovid . Every reader of this book may not be a reader of " Procris , the fond wife of Cephalus , is faid to have made her husband , who delighted in the sports of the wood , a prefent of ...
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... ( faid he ) be lov'd ? Take the foft forrower at her word , and try How deeply rooted woman's vows can lie . " Twas faid and done - The tender Strephon died ; Arfenia two long months t'outlive him tried , And in the third , alas ! —became ...
... ( faid he ) be lov'd ? Take the foft forrower at her word , and try How deeply rooted woman's vows can lie . " Twas faid and done - The tender Strephon died ; Arfenia two long months t'outlive him tried , And in the third , alas ! —became ...
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Página 71 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 30 - EPIGRAM. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.
Página 4 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 5 - Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
Página 19 - Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? " But, in this case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke.
Página 115 - ILov'd thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow ; So alter'd are thy face and mind, 'Twere perjury to love thee now.
Página 88 - 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.
Página 22 - Radcliff ; was so ill, That other doctors gave me over : He felt my pulse, prescribed his pill, And I was likely to recover. " But when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
Página 126 - And rather than do such a naughty affair, She became a fine laurel to deck the God's hair. The nymph was, no doubt, of a cold constitution; For sure to turn tree was an odd resolution!
Página 10 - Affure yourfelf, was loudly rated : And madam, getting up again, With her own hand the moufe-trap baited. On little things, as fages write, Depends our human joy or forrow : If we don't catch a moufe to-night, Alas ! no eye-brows for to-morrow.