Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1787 |
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... rule's too much ; For what's forbidden us ' tis death to touch . 75 That life may be niore comfortable yet , And all my joys refin'd , sincere , and great , I'd chuse two friends , whose company would be - A great advance to my felicity ...
... rule's too much ; For what's forbidden us ' tis death to touch . 75 That life may be niore comfortable yet , And all my joys refin'd , sincere , and great , I'd chuse two friends , whose company would be - A great advance to my felicity ...
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... rule , and make those happy I command " For while I govern all within's at rest ; " No stormy passion revels in my breast : " But when my pow'r is despicable grown , " And rebel appetites usurp the throne , " The soul no longer quiet ...
... rule , and make those happy I command " For while I govern all within's at rest ; " No stormy passion revels in my breast : " But when my pow'r is despicable grown , " And rebel appetites usurp the throne , " The soul no longer quiet ...
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... rules " In this capacious realm of idle fools , " Who , by false arts and popular deceits , " The careless , fond , unthinking mortal cheats . " ' Tis easy to descend into the snare , 70 75 80 " By the pernicious conduct of the fair ...
... rules " In this capacious realm of idle fools , " Who , by false arts and popular deceits , " The careless , fond , unthinking mortal cheats . " ' Tis easy to descend into the snare , 70 75 80 " By the pernicious conduct of the fair ...
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... rule " Of women , do ; love on , and be a fool . " You know the danger , your own methods use , " The good or evil's in your pow'r to choose : 130 " But who'd expect a short and dubious bliss " On the declining of a precipice , " Where ...
... rule " Of women , do ; love on , and be a fool . " You know the danger , your own methods use , " The good or evil's in your pow'r to choose : 130 " But who'd expect a short and dubious bliss " On the declining of a precipice , " Where ...
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... rules , " To make himself the deity of fools : " Him dully they adore , him blindly serve ; [ starve ; " Some while they're sots , and others while they " For those who under his wild conduct go , " Either come coxcombs , or he makes ...
... rules , " To make himself the deity of fools : " Him dully they adore , him blindly serve ; [ starve ; " Some while they're sots , and others while they " For those who under his wild conduct go , " Either come coxcombs , or he makes ...
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23 ページ - Baboons and apes ridiculous we find; For what ? for ill refembling humankind. " None are for being what they are in fault, " But for not being what they would be thought." Thus I, dear Friend! to you my thoughts impart, As to one perfect in the Pleafing art;
145 ページ - Let not her years exceed, if equal thine, For women past their vigour soon decline. Her fortune competent; and if thy sight Can reach so far, take care 'tis gather'd right. If thine's enough, then her's may be the less: Do not aspire to riches in excess; For that which makes our lives delightful prove,
13 ページ - Give life an edge so keen, no surly care Would venture to assault my soul, or dare Near my retreat, to hide one secret snare. But so divine, so noble, a repast I'd seldom, and with moderation taste; 135
67 ページ - all that heav'n of beauty come! And muft Paftora moulder in the tomb! Ah, Death! more fierce and unrelenting far Than wildeft wolves or favage tigers are; With lambs and flieep their hungers are appeas'd, But ravenous Death the
37 ページ - he fits upon, Whofe memory of found is long fince gone, And purpofely annihilated for his throne; Beneath two foft tranfparent clouds do meet, In which he feems to fink his fofter feet; A melancholy thought, condens'd to air, Stol'n from a lover in defpair, Like a thin mantle
109 ページ - and laid his paffion ; The fhepherd ceas'd reviling, And fung this recantation. PALINODE. " How engaging, how endearing, '* Is a lover's pain and care! ** And what joy the nymph's appearing " After abfence or defpair! " Women wife increafe defiring, •* By contriving kind delays, " And advancing or retiring, " All they mean is more to pleafe.
140 ページ - A thorny bramble pricks her tender breast; In warbling melody she spends the night, And moves at once compassion and delight. No choice had e'er so happy an event But he that made it did that choice repent. So weak's our judgment, and so short's our
13 ページ - Courage to look bold Danger in the face; No fear, but only to be proud or base ; Quick to advise, by an emergence prest, 115 To give good counsel, or to take the best: I'd have th'expression of her thoughts be such, She might not seem reserv'd, nor talk too much ; That shews a want of judgment and of sense ; More than enough is but impertinence:
91 ページ - authors, too, by their fuccefs of late, Begin to think third days are out of date. What can the caufe be that our plays wont keep, Unlefs they have a rot fome years, like fheep.' For our parts, we confefs we're quite afham'd To read fuch weekly bills of poets damn'd.
112 ページ - In whom there are the least remains Of piety or fear, His tribute brings of joyful sacrifice, For pardon prays, and for protection flies: Nay, the inanimate creation give, By prompt obedience to his word, Instinctive honour to their Lord, And shame the thinking world who in