The Works, Volume 13Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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Termos e frases comuns
Addison Æsop Ambrose Philips ancient appear Arbuthnot barrier treaty bathos beasts Blackmore called Cato character church court critics Curll Dennis Dick Doctor Double Falsehood Duke Dunciad Edmund Curll excellent eyes fear Fourth Doctor gentleman give hand hath head hear Homer honour humour Jane Wenham John Dennis king Kit-cat Club ladies learned letter Lintot live Lord mankind manner master Miscellany Mohocks nature neighbours never observed occasion person piece poem poet poetry poor Pope pray printed profund puns pyed horses Quadrille Queen reader reason remarkable ridicule Rule satire Scriblerus Scriblerus Club Second Doctor sense shew spirit sweet Molly Swift thee things Third Doctor thou thought tion Tom D'Urfey true turn unto verse WARTON whole wife woman women wonder words writ write
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Página 305 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 154 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Página 148 - And now (as oft in some distemper'd state) On one nice trick depends the gen'ral fate. An Ace of Hearts steps forth : the King unseen Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen : He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky ; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.
Página 152 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light, Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or...
Página 231 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Página 304 - Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 147 - With his broad sabre next, a chief in years, The hoary Majesty of Spades appears, Puts forth one manly leg, to sight reveal'd, The rest his many-colour'd robe conceal'd.
Página 63 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Página 146 - Warn'd by the sylph, oh pious maid, beware ! This to disclose is all thy guardian can : Beware of all, but most beware of man ! He said ; when Shock, who thought she slept too long, Leap'd up, and waked his mistress with his tongue.
Página 309 - 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!