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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... please them , and improve her own . A modeft youth faid fomething new ; She plac'd it in the ftrongest view . All humble worth the ftrove to raife ; Wou'd not be prais'd , yet lov'd to praife . The learned met with free approach ...
... please them , and improve her own . A modeft youth faid fomething new ; She plac'd it in the ftrongest view . All humble worth the ftrove to raife ; Wou'd not be prais'd , yet lov'd to praife . The learned met with free approach ...
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... please her swain , Talks in a high romantick strain ; Or whether he at last descends To like with lefs feraphick ends ; Or , to compound the bus'nefs , whether They temper love and books together ; Muft never to mankind be told , Nor ...
... please her swain , Talks in a high romantick strain ; Or whether he at last descends To like with lefs feraphick ends ; Or , to compound the bus'nefs , whether They temper love and books together ; Muft never to mankind be told , Nor ...
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... please . } He spoke ; and prefently he feels His grazier's coat fall down his heels ; He fees , yet hardly can believe , About each arm a pudding - fleeve ; His waistcoat to a caffock grew , And both affum'd a fable hue ; But , being ...
... please . } He spoke ; and prefently he feels His grazier's coat fall down his heels ; He fees , yet hardly can believe , About each arm a pudding - fleeve ; His waistcoat to a caffock grew , And both affum'd a fable hue ; But , being ...
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... please ; 60 “ I doubt not , if his lordship knew “ And , mr . dean , one word from you ” . ' Tis ( let me fee ) three years and more ( October next it will be four ) Since Harley bid me first attend , And chofe me for an humble friend ...
... please ; 60 “ I doubt not , if his lordship knew “ And , mr . dean , one word from you ” . ' Tis ( let me fee ) three years and more ( October next it will be four ) Since Harley bid me first attend , And chofe me for an humble friend ...
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... please , to blot it out ; And then , to heighten the difgrace , Clap his own nonfenfe in the place . Whoe'er expects to hold his part In fuch a book , and fuch a heart , VERSES ON A LADY's TABLE - BOOK . 69 If I If VERSES Verfes wrote ...
... please , to blot it out ; And then , to heighten the difgrace , Clap his own nonfenfe in the place . Whoe'er expects to hold his part In fuch a book , and fuch a heart , VERSES ON A LADY's TABLE - BOOK . 69 If I If VERSES Verfes wrote ...
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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.