New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1824 |
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... face . As Hannibal did to the altars come , Swore by his sire a mortal foe to Rome ; So Shadwell swore , nor should his vow be vain , That he till death true Dulness would maintain ; And , in his father's right and realm's defence , Ne ...
... face . As Hannibal did to the altars come , Swore by his sire a mortal foe to Rome ; So Shadwell swore , nor should his vow be vain , That he till death true Dulness would maintain ; And , in his father's right and realm's defence , Ne ...
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... face with patches soil , with paint repair , Dress with gay gowns , and shade with foreign hair : * Translation of all the Psalms . + Canticles and Ecclesiastes . Paraphrase of the Canticles of Moses and Deborah , & c . The Lamentations ...
... face with patches soil , with paint repair , Dress with gay gowns , and shade with foreign hair : * Translation of all the Psalms . + Canticles and Ecclesiastes . Paraphrase of the Canticles of Moses and Deborah , & c . The Lamentations ...
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... face . Though splendour gives the fairest mark To poison'd arrows from the dark , Yet in yourself when smooth and round They glance aside without a wound . 2 ' Tis said the gods tried all their art How Pain they might from Pleasure part ...
... face . Though splendour gives the fairest mark To poison'd arrows from the dark , Yet in yourself when smooth and round They glance aside without a wound . 2 ' Tis said the gods tried all their art How Pain they might from Pleasure part ...
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... face will fly . When Jove was from his teeming head Of Wit's fair goddess brought to bed , There follow'd at his lying - in , For afterbirth , a sooterkin , Which , as the nurse pursued to kill , Attain'd by flight the Muses ' hill ...
... face will fly . When Jove was from his teeming head Of Wit's fair goddess brought to bed , There follow'd at his lying - in , For afterbirth , a sooterkin , Which , as the nurse pursued to kill , Attain'd by flight the Muses ' hill ...
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... face and size , And only wants to want his eyes . Make some provision for the younker , Find him a kingdom out to conquer ; Prepare a fleet to waft him o'er , Make Gulliver his Commodore , Into whose pocket valiant Willy put , Will soon ...
... face and size , And only wants to want his eyes . Make some provision for the younker , Find him a kingdom out to conquer ; Prepare a fleet to waft him o'er , Make Gulliver his Commodore , Into whose pocket valiant Willy put , Will soon ...
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Página 2 - A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Página 1 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 363 - Much wonder'd that the silly sheep had found Such cause of terror in an empty sound, So sweet to huntsman, gentleman, and hound. MORAL. Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.
Página 336 - When, pop! she starts before their nose; As eager runs the market-crowd, When 'Catch the thief!' resounds aloud; So Maggie runs, the witches follow, Wi' mony an eldritch skreech and hollow.
Página 87 - He, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning: And He, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not Poetry, but prose run mad: All these, my modest Satire bade translate, And own'd that nine such Poets made a late.
Página 331 - The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious: The Souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy: As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,...
Página 333 - And thro' the whins, and by the cairn, Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; And near the thorn, aboon the well, Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel. Before him Doon pours all his floods; The doubling storm roars thro' the woods; The lightnings flash from pole to pole; Near and more near the thunders roll: When, glimmering thro' the groaning trees, Kirk-Alloway seemed in a bleeze, Thro' ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers...
Página 331 - That ilka melder, wi' the miller, Thou sat as lang as thou had siller ; That ev'ry naig was ca'da shoe on, The smith and thee gat roaring fou on ; That at the Lord's house, ev'n on Sunday, Thou drank wi
Página 82 - Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my dainn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 2 - In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...