Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poemsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... stress of all my proofs on him I lay , And now proceed we to our simile . Imprimis , pray observe his hat , Wings upon either side - mark that . Well ! what is it from thence we gather ? New Simile in the manner of Swift.
... stress of all my proofs on him I lay , And now proceed we to our simile . Imprimis , pray observe his hat , Wings upon either side - mark that . Well ! what is it from thence we gather ? New Simile in the manner of Swift.
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... pray . A kind and gentle heart he had , To comfort friends and foes ; The naked ev'ry day he clad , When he put on his clothes . And in that town a dog was found , As many dogs there be , Both mungrel , puppy , whelp , and hound , And ...
... pray . A kind and gentle heart he had , To comfort friends and foes ; The naked ev'ry day he clad , When he put on his clothes . And in that town a dog was found , As many dogs there be , Both mungrel , puppy , whelp , and hound , And ...
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... pray'd and felt for all ; And , as a bird each fond endearment tries , To tempt its new - fledg'd offspring to the skies , He tried each art , reprov'd each dull delay , Allur'd to brighter worlds , and led the way . Beside the bed ...
... pray'd and felt for all ; And , as a bird each fond endearment tries , To tempt its new - fledg'd offspring to the skies , He tried each art , reprov'd each dull delay , Allur'd to brighter worlds , and led the way . Beside the bed ...
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... pray , in this woful attack ; For sure I don't wrong you , you seldom are slack , When the ladies are calling , to blush , and hang back . For you're always polite and attentive , Still to amuse us inventive , And death is your only ...
... pray , in this woful attack ; For sure I don't wrong you , you seldom are slack , When the ladies are calling , to blush , and hang back . For you're always polite and attentive , Still to amuse us inventive , And death is your only ...
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... Pray a slice of your liver , tho ' may I be curst , But I've eat of your tripe , till I'm ready to burst . " " The tripe , " quoth the Jew , with his chocolate cheek , " I could dine on this tripe seven days in a week : I like these ...
... Pray a slice of your liver , tho ' may I be curst , But I've eat of your tripe , till I'm ready to burst . " " The tripe , " quoth the Jew , with his chocolate cheek , " I could dine on this tripe seven days in a week : I like these ...
Términos y frases comunes
aunt BAILIFF bar-maid battle of Belgrade believe blessing breast BULKLEY CHALDEAN Charles Marlow charms daughter David Garrick dear DIGGORY e'en Ecod Enter Miss Epilogue Exeunt Exit eyes father favour fear fellow folly fool forgive fortune friendship GARNET girl give GOLDSMITH good-natur'd hand happiness HASTINGS hear heart Heaven honour hope horses hour humour impudence JARVIS jewels keep lady laugh leave LEONTINE letter LOFTY look Lord Madam maid MARLOW married mean mind Miss CATLEY Miss HARDCASTLE Miss NEVILLE Miss RICHLAND modest never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVIA pardon passion pleasure poor POSTBOY Pray pretty pride PROPHET pruin scarce scene SERVANT shew Sir CHARLES Sir William Honeywood smiling soul stept STOOPS TO CONQUER sure sweet SWEET AUBURN talk tell thee there's thing thou TONY undone wretch Zounds
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Página 113 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Página 73 - Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all — her friends, her virtue fled — Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...
Página 70 - To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested...
Página 45 - That first excites desire, and then supplies. Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, \ Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame : Their level life is but a...
Página 65 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Página 66 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Página 49 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Página 71 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells...
Página 38 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his fo6d, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Página 107 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade f Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...