The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory, Volumen6C. Bathurst, 1754 |
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... kind ; Where not one careless thought intrudes Less modeft than the speech of prudes ; Where never blush was call'd in aid , That fpurious virtue in a maid , A virtue but at fecond - hand ; They blush , because they understand . The ...
... kind ; Where not one careless thought intrudes Less modeft than the speech of prudes ; Where never blush was call'd in aid , That fpurious virtue in a maid , A virtue but at fecond - hand ; They blush , because they understand . The ...
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... ev'ry common beau ; Who , though he cannot fpell , is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes , And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance . But But what fuccefs Vanessa met , Is to the world 32 CADENUS and VANESSA .
... ev'ry common beau ; Who , though he cannot fpell , is wise Enough to read a lady's eyes , And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance . But But what fuccefs Vanessa met , Is to the world 32 CADENUS and VANESSA .
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... kind ; 110 And * Parvifol discounts arrears By bills for taxes and repairs † . E 3 107. Oves furto , morbo periere capella ; Spem mentita feges , bos eft enectus arando ; * The dean's agent , Frenchman . + " Upon his arrival in Ire- a ...
... kind ; 110 And * Parvifol discounts arrears By bills for taxes and repairs † . E 3 107. Oves furto , morbo periere capella ; Spem mentita feges , bos eft enectus arando ; * The dean's agent , Frenchman . + " Upon his arrival in Ire- a ...
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... d the edifice , and fmil'd , Vow'd it was pretty for a child : It was fo perfect in its kind , He kept the model in his mind . G 2 But 1 84 THE HISTORY OF But , when he found VANBRUGH's HOUSE . 83 The biftory of Vanbrugh's houfe.
... d the edifice , and fmil'd , Vow'd it was pretty for a child : It was fo perfect in its kind , He kept the model in his mind . G 2 But 1 84 THE HISTORY OF But , when he found VANBRUGH's HOUSE . 83 The biftory of Vanbrugh's houfe.
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... kind , With gaudy coat , and fhining train ; But loathfome fpots his body ftain : Out from fome hole obfcure he flies , When rains defcend , and tempefts rife , Till the fun clears the air ; and then Crawls back neglected to his den ...
... kind , With gaudy coat , and fhining train ; But loathfome fpots his body ftain : Out from fome hole obfcure he flies , When rains defcend , and tempefts rife , Till the fun clears the air ; and then Crawls back neglected to his den ...
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Página 146 - Tis but the funeral of the former year. Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face. Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear...
Página 263 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE, Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY : His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Página 30 - Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Página 43 - A sable cloud athwart the welkin flings, That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again.
Página 196 - To raise the lumber from the earth. But view him in another scene, When all his drink is Hippocrene, His money...
Página 300 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Página 45 - Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within...
Página 301 - tis a shocking sight, And he's engaged to-morrow night; My Lady Club will take it ill, If he should fail her at quadrille. He loved the Dean— (I lead a heart,) But dearest friends, they say, must part. His time was come: he ran his race; We hope he's in a better place.
Página 146 - See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot, Alive, ridiculous; and dead, forgot!
Página 299 - He'll treat me as he does my betters, Publish my will, my life, my letters ; Revive the libels born to die : Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament.