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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... nymphs were seen Pleading before the Cyprian queen . The council for the fair began , Accufing the falfe creature man . The brief with weighty crimes was charg'd , On which the pleader much enlarg'd ; That Cupid now has loft his art ...
... nymphs were seen Pleading before the Cyprian queen . The council for the fair began , Accufing the falfe creature man . The brief with weighty crimes was charg'd , On which the pleader much enlarg'd ; That Cupid now has loft his art ...
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... nymphs with scorn beheld their foes : When the defendant's council rose , And , what no lawyer ever lack'd , With impudence own'd all the fact ; But , what the gentleft heart would vex , Laid all the fault on t'other fex . That modern ...
... nymphs with scorn beheld their foes : When the defendant's council rose , And , what no lawyer ever lack'd , With impudence own'd all the fact ; But , what the gentleft heart would vex , Laid all the fault on t'other fex . That modern ...
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... nymphs be plac'd , Grown fo corrupted in their taste . The pleader , having spoke his best , Had witness ready to atteft , Who fairly could on oath depofe , When questions on the fact arofe , That ev'ry article was true ; Nor further ...
... nymphs be plac'd , Grown fo corrupted in their taste . The pleader , having spoke his best , Had witness ready to atteft , Who fairly could on oath depofe , When questions on the fact arofe , That ev'ry article was true ; Nor further ...
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... nymphs and fwains ador'd , My pow'r fhall be again reftor'd , And happy lovers blefs my reign --- So Venus hop'd , but hop'd in vain . For , when in time the martial maid Found out the trick that Venus play'd , She shakes her helm , fhe ...
... nymphs and fwains ador'd , My pow'r fhall be again reftor'd , And happy lovers blefs my reign --- So Venus hop'd , but hop'd in vain . For , when in time the martial maid Found out the trick that Venus play'd , She shakes her helm , fhe ...
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... nymph ftood filent out of fpight , Nor wou'd vouchfafe to fet them right . Away the fair detractors went , And gave by turns their cenfures vent . She's not fo handfome in my eyes : For wit , I wonder where it lies . C She's She's fair ...
... nymph ftood filent out of fpight , Nor wou'd vouchfafe to fet them right . Away the fair detractors went , And gave by turns their cenfures vent . She's not fo handfome in my eyes : For wit , I wonder where it lies . C She's She's fair ...
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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.