Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poemsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... married . Need we expose to vulgar sight The raptures of the bridal night ? Need we intrude on hallow'd ground , Or draw the curtains clos'd around ? Let it suffice , that each had charms ; He clasp'd a goddess in his arms ; And ...
... married . Need we expose to vulgar sight The raptures of the bridal night ? Need we intrude on hallow'd ground , Or draw the curtains clos'd around ? Let it suffice , that each had charms ; He clasp'd a goddess in his arms ; And ...
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... marry me ? Lovers are plenty ; but fail to relieve me . He , fond youth , that could carry me , Offers to love , but means to deceive me . * Sir , I send you a small production of the late Dr. Goldsmith , which has never been published ...
... marry me ? Lovers are plenty ; but fail to relieve me . He , fond youth , that could carry me , Offers to love , but means to deceive me . * Sir , I send you a small production of the late Dr. Goldsmith , which has never been published ...
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... marriage that would set all things to rights again . HONEYWOOD . Love me ! Sure , Jarvis , you dream . No , no ; her intimacy with me never amounted to more than friendship - mere friendship . That she is the most lovely woman that ever ...
... marriage that would set all things to rights again . HONEYWOOD . Love me ! Sure , Jarvis , you dream . No , no ; her intimacy with me never amounted to more than friendship - mere friendship . That she is the most lovely woman that ever ...
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... marry her ; it may be possible , she has no inclination to me . CROAKER . I'll tell you once for all how it stands . A good part of Miss Richland's large fortune consists in a claim upon government , which my good friend , Mr. Lofty ...
... marry her ; it may be possible , she has no inclination to me . CROAKER . I'll tell you once for all how it stands . A good part of Miss Richland's large fortune consists in a claim upon government , which my good friend , Mr. Lofty ...
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... marry you , or lose half her fortune ; and you have your choice - to marry her , or pack out of doors without any fortune at all . LEONTINE . An only son , Sir , might expect more indulgence . CROAKER . An only father , Sir , might ...
... marry you , or lose half her fortune ; and you have your choice - to marry her , or pack out of doors without any fortune at all . LEONTINE . An only son , Sir , might expect more indulgence . CROAKER . An only father , Sir , might ...
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...