Tinsley's Magazine, Volume 32

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Página 21 - If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them, should be, — to forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack.
Página 256 - It lies not in our power to love, or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stript, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows; let it suffice, What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Página 341 - ... strews dust, And overhead strange weathers burn and bite ; And where the red was, lo the bloodless white, And where truth was, the likeness of a liar, And where day was, the likeness of the night ; This is the end of every man's desire.
Página 424 - The Lady Jane was tall and slim, The Lady Jane was fair, Alas, for Sir Thomas! — she grieved for him. As she saw two...
Página 249 - I know of nothing that will be so interesting to you at present as some circumstances of the last act of that eminent comic poet and our friend, Wycherley. He had often told me...
Página 265 - These lovers parleyed by the touch of hands; True love is mute, and oft amazed stands. Thus while dumb signs their yielding hearts entangled, The air with sparks of living fire was spangled, And night, deep drenched in misty Acheron, Heaved up her head, and half the world upon Breathed darkness forth (dark night is Cupid's day).
Página 242 - Yet, perhaps, my enviers of your favour will suggest 'twas in Lent, and therefore for your mortification. Then, as a jealous author, I am concerned not to have your Grace's favours lessened, or rather my reputation ; and to let them know, you were pleased, after that, to command a copy from me of this play ; — the only way, without beauty and wit, to win a poor poet's heart...
Página 52 - Fair-seeming shows, and feed on vain delight, Transported with celestial desire Of those fair forms, may lift themselves up higher, And learn to love, with zealous humble duty. The eternal fountain of that Heavenly Beauty.
Página 249 - ... receive ; for, if you observe, matrimony is placed after extreme unction in our catechism, as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken. The old man then lay down, satisfied in the consciousness of having, by this one act, obliged a woman who (he was told) had merit, and shown an heroic resentment of the ill-usage of his next heir.
Página 321 - X, spoke also a prologue on the same occasion, written by himself, the concluding lines of which are as follows : — But when this busy mimic scene is o'er, All shall resume the worth they had before ; Lockit himself his knavery shall resign, And lose the Gaoler in the dull Divine...

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