Miscellaneous Works in Verse and ProseS. Powell, 1726 - 283 páginas |
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Página 93 - Butler and his friend attended accordingly ; the duke joined them ; but, as the...
Página 92 - Wycherley," says Major Packe, "had always laid hold of an opportunity which offered of representing to the Duke of Buckingham how well Mr. Butler had deserved of the royal family, \ by writing his inimitable Hudibras, and that it was a reproach to the Court that a person of hia loyalty and wit should suffer in obscurity, and under the wants he did.
Página 94 - Meetings was CANARY; and, among Other Compliments the GENTLEMEN paid their MISTRESSES, This it seems was always One , to take hold of the Bottom of their SMOCKS, and, pouring the WINE through That Filtre, feast their Imaginations with the Thought of What gave the Zesto, and so Drink a Health to the TOAST.
Página 238 - Your conquering eyes so partial are, Or mankind is so dull, That, while I languish in despair, Many proud senseless hearts declare, They find you not so killing fair, To wish you merciful. They an inglorious freedom boast ; I triumph in my chain ; Nor am I...
Página 93 - At last an appointment was made, and the place of meeting was agreed to be the Roebuck. Mr. Butler and his friend...
Página 237 - Give me ambrofia in a kifs, That I may rival Jove in blifs, That I may mix my foul with thine, And make the pleafure all divine. O ! hide thy bofom's killing white, (The milky way is not fo bright) ; Left you my ravifh'd foul opprefs, With beauty's pomp, and fweet excefs. Why draw'ft thou from the purple flood Of my kind heart the vital blood ? Thou art all over endlefs charms ; O ! take me dying to thy arms.
Página 98 - He laboured under the weight of thefe difficulties, till his father died ; and then too the eftate, that defcended to him, was left under very uneafy limitations, fince being only a tenant for life, he could not raife any money for the payment of his debts. However he took a method of doing it, that was in his power, though few fufpected it to be his choice ; and this was making a jointure.
Página 93 - ... brace of ladies, immediately quitted '" his engagement to follow another kind of bufinefs, " at which he was more ready than in doing good " offices to men of defert; though no one was better " qualified than he, both in regard to his fortune and...
Página 92 - Wycherly, in hopes to keep him fteady to his word, obtained of his Grace to name a day when he might introduce...