Poetical Miscellanies: Consisting of Original Poems and TranslationsSir Richard Steele J. Tonson, 1727 - 346 páginas |
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... Heart . " Wou'd I vouchsafe to fell what Nature gave , " You little think what Custom I cou'd have ? " But fee ! I'm all your own --- nay hold --- for Shame ! " What means my Dear --- indeed --- you are to blame . Thus with my first ...
... Heart . " Wou'd I vouchsafe to fell what Nature gave , " You little think what Custom I cou'd have ? " But fee ! I'm all your own --- nay hold --- for Shame ! " What means my Dear --- indeed --- you are to blame . Thus with my first ...
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... Heart . This wicked World was once my dear Delight , Now all my Conquefts , all my Charms , good night ! The Flour confum'd , the beft that now I can Is e'en to make my Markets of the Bran . My fourth dear Spouse was not exceeding true ...
... Heart . This wicked World was once my dear Delight , Now all my Conquefts , all my Charms , good night ! The Flour confum'd , the beft that now I can Is e'en to make my Markets of the Bran . My fourth dear Spouse was not exceeding true ...
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... Heart he cou'd have won , While yet the Smart was shooting in the Bone . How quaint an Appetite in Women reigns ! Free Gifts we fcorn , and love what cofts us Pains a Let Men avoid us , and on them we leap ; A glutted Market makes ...
... Heart he cou'd have won , While yet the Smart was shooting in the Bone . How quaint an Appetite in Women reigns ! Free Gifts we fcorn , and love what cofts us Pains a Let Men avoid us , and on them we leap ; A glutted Market makes ...
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... Heart falfe Dalilah did move , His Strength , his Sight , his Life , were loft for Love , Then how Alcides dy'd , whom Dejanire Wrapt in th'envenom'd Shirt , and fet on Fire . How curft Eryphile her Lord betray'd , And the dire Ambush ...
... Heart falfe Dalilah did move , His Strength , his Sight , his Life , were loft for Love , Then how Alcides dy'd , whom Dejanire Wrapt in th'envenom'd Shirt , and fet on Fire . How curft Eryphile her Lord betray'd , And the dire Ambush ...
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Consisting of Original Poems and Translations Sir Richard Steele. He had by Heart the whole Detail of Woe Xantippe made her good Man undergo ; How oft fhe fcolded in a Day , he knew , How many Pifs - pots on the Sage fhe threw ; Who took ...
Consisting of Original Poems and Translations Sir Richard Steele. He had by Heart the whole Detail of Woe Xantippe made her good Man undergo ; How oft fhe fcolded in a Day , he knew , How many Pifs - pots on the Sage fhe threw ; Who took ...
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Página 38 - The stars that gild the gloomy night; The seas that roll unnumber'd waves; The wood that spreads its shady leaves; The field whose ears conceal the grain, The yellow treasure of the plain; All of these, and all I see, Should be sung, and sung by me : They speak their maker as they can, But want and ask the tongue of man.
Página 35 - LOVELY, lasting peace of mind ! Sweet delight of human kind ! Heavenly born, and bred on high, To crown the favourites of the sky With more of happiness below, Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither, O whither art thou fled, To lay thy meek contented head ? What happy region dost thou please To make the seat of calms and ease ? " Ambition searches all its sphere Of pomp and state to meet thee there.
Página 97 - ... pomegranate glows, The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year. The balmy spirit of the western gale Eternal breathes on fruits untaught to fail: Each dropping pear a following pear supplies, On apples apples, figs on figs arise: The same mild season gives the blooms to blow, The buds to harden, and the fruits to grow. Here ordered vines in equal ranks appear With all th...
Página 132 - His flat, wide nostrils snuff the savoury steam, And from his eyes he shoots pernicious gleam ; Middling his head, and prone to earth his view, With ears and chest that dash the morning dew : He best to stem the...
Página 330 - Nor mean the taflc, each breathing buft explore, Line after line with painful patience trace, This Roman grandeur, that Athenian grace : Vain care of parts ; if, impotent of foul, Th...
Página 331 - And place the faireft in the faireft light; Ere yet thy pencil tries her nicer toils, Or on thy palette lie the blended oils, Thy carelefs chalk has half atchiev':i thy art, And her juft image makes Cleora ftart.
Página 36 - No real happiness is found In trailing purple o'er the ground; Or in a soul exalted high To range the circuit of the sky, Converse with stars above, and know All Nature in its forms below — The rest it seeks, in seeking dies, And doubts at last, for knowledge, rise.
Página 96 - Four acres was the allotted space of ground, Fenced with a green enclosure all around. Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould : The reddening apple ripens here to gold. Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate glows : The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year.
Página 39 - I lent one sigh to them ? But now my former days retire, And I'm by beauty caught, The tender chains of sweet desire Are fix'd upon my thought.
Página 136 - Thou wert; and when the subterraneous flame Shall burst its prison, and devour this frame, From angry...