Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse and ProseJ. Dodsley, 1770 - 452 strán (strany) |
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Strana 16
... looks , and wanton pride , Stare all around , and skip from fide to fide . True dancing , like true wit , is best exprest By nature only to advantage dreft ; ' Tis not a nimble bound , or caper high , That can pretend to please a ...
... looks , and wanton pride , Stare all around , and skip from fide to fide . True dancing , like true wit , is best exprest By nature only to advantage dreft ; ' Tis not a nimble bound , or caper high , That can pretend to please a ...
Strana 39
... looks down , And his eternal law is only this , That all contribute to the general blifs . Nature fo plain this primal law difplays , شده لان et Each living creature fees it , and obeys ; Each , form'd for all , promotes thro ' private ...
... looks down , And his eternal law is only this , That all contribute to the general blifs . Nature fo plain this primal law difplays , شده لان et Each living creature fees it , and obeys ; Each , form'd for all , promotes thro ' private ...
Strana 73
... look with envious hate on all in place o But had the patriots of thofe ancient days , on Play'd the fame game for profit , or for praise Su The trade , tho ' now fo flourishing and new , Had long been ruin'd and the nation too ...
... look with envious hate on all in place o But had the patriots of thofe ancient days , on Play'd the fame game for profit , or for praise Su The trade , tho ' now fo flourishing and new , Had long been ruin'd and the nation too ...
Strana 92
... and thaw'd the froft of age , Το gaze at her , ev'n DONNS were feen to And leave unfinish'd pipes , and authors - fcarce bir bak edT begun . * ba tod do 501 769d * So so * So HELEN look'd , and mov'd with such 92 POEM s.
... and thaw'd the froft of age , Το gaze at her , ev'n DONNS were feen to And leave unfinish'd pipes , and authors - fcarce bir bak edT begun . * ba tod do 501 769d * So so * So HELEN look'd , and mov'd with such 92 POEM s.
Strana 93
Soame Jenyns. so * So HELEN look'd , and mov'd with such a graces When the grave feniors of the Trojan racefied g Were forc'd thofe fatal beauties to admire , no stor . T That all their youth confum'd , and fet their town on fire ...
Soame Jenyns. so * So HELEN look'd , and mov'd with such a graces When the grave feniors of the Trojan racefied g Were forc'd thofe fatal beauties to admire , no stor . T That all their youth confum'd , and fet their town on fire ...
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Strana 266 - Ignorance, or the want of knowledge and literature, the appointed lot of all born to poverty, and the drudgeries of life, is the only opiate capable of infusing that insensibility which can enable them to endure the miseries of the one and the fatigues of the other. It is a cordial administered by the gracious hand of Providence ; of which they ought never to be deprived by an ill-judged and improper education.
Strana 20 - Quick bufy hands, and bridling heads declare, The fond impatience of the ftarting fair. And fee, the fprightly dance is now begun ! Now here, now there the giddy maze they run, Now with flow fteps they pace the circling ring, Now all confus'd, too fwift for fight they fpring : So, in a wheel with rapid fury tofs'd, Tho undiftinguim'd fpokes are in the motion loft.
Strana 52 - He digs no longer in th' exhaufted mine, But feeks preferment, as the laft refort, Cringes each morn at levees, bows at court, And, from the hand he hates, implores fupport...
Strana 30 - fquires: Attorneys, for a barley-ftraw, Whole ages hamper folks in law; And every neighbour's in a flame About their rates, or tythes, or game : Some quarrel for their hares and pigeons, And fome for difference in religions...
Strana 279 - Evil ever so great, it could not be remedied but by one much greater, which is by living for ever ; by which means our...
Strana 44 - ... us here, To guide our views to a fublimer fphere, In more exalted joys to fix our tafte, And wean us from delights that cannot laft. Our prefent good the eafy tafk is made, To earn fuperior blifs, when this...
Strana 40 - Hence youth good-humour, frugal craft old-age, Warm politicians term It party-rage, True churchmen zeal right orthodox ; and hence Fools think it gravity, and wits pretence ; To conftancy alone fond lovers join it, And maids unafk'd to chaftity confine it. But have we then no law befides our will ? No juft criterion fix'd to good and ill ? As well at noon we may...
Strana 218 - ... and a great room is added behind to dine in, which, was it ever inhabited, would make all the little ones appear ftill lefs : but having never yet been...
Strana 34 - O'er all the rolling orbs on high, Vifit new worlds, and for a minute This old one fcorn...
Strana 23 - Ah, thoughtlefs fair ! the tempting draught refufe, When thus fore-warn'd by my experienc'd Mufe ; Let the fad confequence your thoughts employ, Nor hazard future pains, for prefent joy, Deftruftion lurks within the pois'nous dofe, A fatal fever, or a pimpled nofe. Thus thro...