Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse: Of the Late James Smith, Esq. ...

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Henry Colburn, 1840
 

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37 ページ - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
261 ページ - I found myself then as incapable of writing such an epilogue as I should be now of speaking it. The jingle of rhyme and the language of fiction would but ill suit my present feelings.
70 ページ - Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day — And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday...
82 ページ - I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.
253 ページ - With all the native vigour of sixteen, Among the merry troop conspicuous seen, See lively Pope advance in jig, and trip Corinna, Cherry, Honeycomb, and Snip ; Not without art, but yet to Nature true, She charms the Town with humour just yet new ; Cheer'd by her promise, we the less deplore The fatal time when Clive shall be no more.
112 ページ - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month; and Gay A week ; and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry I'm sorry; but we all must die.
92 ページ - Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. For after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name.
81 ページ - The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.
73 ページ - Our fate is accomplished, nephew. Hand me yonder volume ; — I shall die as a student in my vocation. Do you then hasten to take refuge on board the fleet at Misenum.
27 ページ - How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain ; Why then beneath the water Do hideous rocks remain? No eyes those rocks discover, That lurk beneath the deep, *To wreck the wandering lover, And leave the maid to weep...

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