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... true . " " You own it then ! -oh ! very well- " Or elfe , by all the dev'ls in hell ! « But that thou haft the fact confeft— " This trufty sword had pierc'd thy breaft . " THE THIRSTY GARRETEER . BY THE SAME . YOU often pity honeft Ned ...
... true . " " You own it then ! -oh ! very well- " Or elfe , by all the dev'ls in hell ! « But that thou haft the fact confeft— " This trufty sword had pierc'd thy breaft . " THE THIRSTY GARRETEER . BY THE SAME . YOU often pity honeft Ned ...
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... " - Why , muft you know it ? I'll tell you ; -you're too great a Poet ; Bishop of Worcester , faid to be a little deaf . + Printed in Fielding's " Champion , " 1743 , And that's a thing true Britons fear , More than [ 20 ]
... " - Why , muft you know it ? I'll tell you ; -you're too great a Poet ; Bishop of Worcester , faid to be a little deaf . + Printed in Fielding's " Champion , " 1743 , And that's a thing true Britons fear , More than [ 20 ]
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Select epigrams. And that's a thing true Britons fear , More than a tyger or a bear . Your man of fense , of all God's curfes , Dreads nothing , like repeating verfes . And really , Tom , you're past all bearing ; You'd tire a Dutchman ...
Select epigrams. And that's a thing true Britons fear , More than a tyger or a bear . Your man of fense , of all God's curfes , Dreads nothing , like repeating verfes . And really , Tom , you're past all bearing ; You'd tire a Dutchman ...
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... true , I am ill ; but I need not complain , For he never knew pleasure , who never knew Payne . TO MISS * ** . BY BRYAN EDWARDS , ESQ . O CLEAR that cruel , doubting brow , I'll call on mighty Jove To witness this eternal vow ; — ' Tis ...
... true , I am ill ; but I need not complain , For he never knew pleasure , who never knew Payne . TO MISS * ** . BY BRYAN EDWARDS , ESQ . O CLEAR that cruel , doubting brow , I'll call on mighty Jove To witness this eternal vow ; — ' Tis ...
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... true one : Shall I tell you how ? She herself makes her own faces , And each morning wears a new one.— Where's the wonder now ? * Many of thefe are original . A REASON FOR NOT WRITING IN PRAISE OF CELIA . 1 83 ] ANONYMOUS EPIGRAMS*. ...
... true one : Shall I tell you how ? She herself makes her own faces , And each morning wears a new one.— Where's the wonder now ? * Many of thefe are original . A REASON FOR NOT WRITING IN PRAISE OF CELIA . 1 83 ] ANONYMOUS EPIGRAMS*. ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 164 - In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet.
Página 70 - At last resolv'd his potent foe to awe, And guard his right, by statute, and by law ! A suit in Chancery the wretch begun, -\ Nine happy terms through bill and answer run, > Obtain'd his cause, had costs, and was undone.
Página 139 - Duke was just come to town — His station despising, unaw'd by the place, He flies from his God to attend on his Grace. To the Court it was fitter to pay his devotion, Since God had no hand in his Lordship's promotion.
Página 124 - Beneath this stone lies Katherine Gray, Changed from a busy life to lifeless clay; By earth and clay she got her pelf, And now she's turned to earth herself. Ye weeping friends, let me advise,— Abate your grief, and dry your eyes; For what avails a flood of tears? Who knows but in a run of years, In some tall pitcher or broad pan, She in her shop may be again...
Página 133 - Thro' every road of human life. Fair wifdom regulates the bar, And peace concludes the wordy war : At home aufpicious mortals find Serene tranquillity of mind ; All-beauteous nature decks the plain, And merchants plough for gold the main : Refpeft arifes from our ftore, Security from being poor : More joys the bands of hymen give ; Th...
Página 143 - Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
Página 74 - Lefliia firft I faw fo heavenly fair, With eyes fo bright, and with that awful air, I thought my heart, which durft fo high afpire, As bold as his who fnatch'd ceeleftial fire.
Página 42 - I NEVER knew a sprightly fair That was not dear to me; And freely I my heart could share With every one I see. It is not this or that alone On whom my choice would fall: I do not more incline to one Than I incline to all. The circle's bounding line are they; Its centre is my heart; My ready love, the equal ray That flows to every part.
Página 105 - Whilst in the dark on thy soft hand I hung, And heard the tempting Siren in thy tongue, What flames, what darts, what anguish I endur'd ! But when the candle enter'd I was cur'd.
Página 45 - The next had all the cunning of a Scot ; The third invention, genius — nay, what not? Fraud, now exhausted, only could dispense To her fourth son their threefold impudence.