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... thee I come , To hail my father , and to feek my home . Nor refuge could I find , nor friend abroad , Straying in vice , and deftitute of God . O let thy terrors , and my anguifh end ! Be thou my refuge and be thou my friend : Receive ...
... thee I come , To hail my father , and to feek my home . Nor refuge could I find , nor friend abroad , Straying in vice , and deftitute of God . O let thy terrors , and my anguifh end ! Be thou my refuge and be thou my friend : Receive ...
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... chide my cares ! And rather pity than reftrain my tears ; Thofe tears , my Damon , which I justly fhed , To think how great my joys ; how foon they fled ; I told I told thee , friend , ( now bless the 26 PRIOR'S POEM S.
... chide my cares ! And rather pity than reftrain my tears ; Thofe tears , my Damon , which I justly fhed , To think how great my joys ; how foon they fled ; I told I told thee , friend , ( now bless the 26 PRIOR'S POEM S.
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Samuel Johnson. I told thee , friend , ( now bless the fhepherd's name , From whofe dear care the kind occafion came , ) That I , even I , might happily receive The facred wealth , which Heaven and Daphnis give That I might see the ...
Samuel Johnson. I told thee , friend , ( now bless the fhepherd's name , From whofe dear care the kind occafion came , ) That I , even I , might happily receive The facred wealth , which Heaven and Daphnis give That I might see the ...
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... thee , as atheists heaven , adore ; Not fee thy mercy , and yet dread thy power ? III . Take heed , my dear : youth flies apace ; As well as Cupid , Time is blind : Soon must those glories of thy face The fate of vulgar beauty find ...
... thee , as atheists heaven , adore ; Not fee thy mercy , and yet dread thy power ? III . Take heed , my dear : youth flies apace ; As well as Cupid , Time is blind : Soon must those glories of thy face The fate of vulgar beauty find ...
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... thee , fly them , and believe They're ferpents all , and thou the tempted Eve . IX . So fhall I court thy dearest truth , When beauty ceases to engage ; So , thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age : So Time ...
... thee , fly them , and believe They're ferpents all , and thou the tempted Eve . IX . So fhall I court thy dearest truth , When beauty ceases to engage ; So , thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age : So Time ...
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againſt arms banyſhed beauteous beauty Belgia blefs bleft bofom breaſt charms Cloe conqueft Cupid Danube darts dear defire Derry eaſe Emma Emma's eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate fear fecret feven fhall fhew fhort fhould fighs fight fing firſt flame fmile fome fong foon forrow ftand ftill fubject fuch fure fword Gaul glorious Goddeſs grene wode go grief happy heart Heaven Henry himſelf Hippolytus honour houſe Jove juft laft laſt leaſt lefs loft lyre mankynde I love Mufe muft Muſe muſt mynde Namur ne'er numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er paffion pleaſure praife praiſe prefent profe purſue rage raiſe reſt rife rove ſay ſhall ſhe ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand Venus verfe verſe vext virtue vows ween weep Whilft whofe William's wiſhes worfe wyll youth
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Página 136 - Let her behold the frantic scene, The women wretched, false the men: And when, these certain ills to shun, She would to thy embraces run; Receive her with extended arms: Seem more delighted with her charms: Wait on her to the park and play: Put on good humour; make her gay: Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfin'd; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Página 129 - To be vexed at a trifle or two that I writ, Your judgment at once and my passion you wrong: You take that for fact which will scarce be found wit: Od's life!
Página 220 - He made his wish with his estate comply, Joyful to live, yet not afraid to die. One child he had, a daughter chaste and fair, His age's comfort, and his fortune's heir. They call'd her Emma ; for the beauteous dame, Who gave the virgin birth, had borne the name ; The name th' indulgent father doubly lov'd ; For in the child the mother's charms improv'd.
Página 237 - The least inclin'd to play the wanton's part ? Did e'er my eye one inward thought reveal, Which angels might not hear, and virgins tell...
Página 199 - Or if it be his fate to meet With folks who have more wealth than wit. He loves cheap port, and double bub, And settles in the Humdrum Club; He learns how stocks will fall or rise; Holds poverty the greatest vice ; Thinks wit the bane of conversation ; And says that learning spoils a nation.
Página 67 - Victor, spare the slave, Who did unequal war pursue; That more than triumph he might have, In being overcome by you. In the dispute whate'er I said, My heart was by my tongue belied; And in my looks you might have read How much I argued on your side. You, far from danger as from fear. Might have sustained an open fight: For seldom your opinions err; Your eyes are always in the right.
Página 44 - IN vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas ! what winds can happy prove, That bear me far from what I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain?
Página 237 - Vows made to last, or promises to bind. By nature prompted, and for empire made, Alike by strength or cunning we invade : When arm'd with rage we march against the...
Página 4 - Nor was this nicety of his judgment confined only to books and literature, but was the same in statuary, painting, and all other parts of art. Bernini would have taken his opinion upon the beauty and attitude of a figure ; and King Charles did not agree with Lely, that my Lady Cleveland's picture was finished, till it had the approbation of my Lord Buckhurst.
Página 126 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see.