Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1797 |
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Página xxii
... soul and body to the eternal and everlasting God who gave me my being : Deus es , instaura plasma tuum . This Will , written with my own hand , I sign and seal the 9th of August , An . Dom . 1721 . M. PRIOR . Signed , sealed , and ...
... soul and body to the eternal and everlasting God who gave me my being : Deus es , instaura plasma tuum . This Will , written with my own hand , I sign and seal the 9th of August , An . Dom . 1721 . M. PRIOR . Signed , sealed , and ...
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... and the perfection of my Lord Dorset's character , was that unbounded charity which ran through the whole tenour of his life , and sat as visibly predominant over the other faculties of his soul as she is said xl DEDICATION .
... and the perfection of my Lord Dorset's character , was that unbounded charity which ran through the whole tenour of his life , and sat as visibly predominant over the other faculties of his soul as she is said xl DEDICATION .
Página xli
... soul as she is said to do in heaven above her sister virtues . Crowds of poor daily thronged his gates , expecting thence their bread , and were still lessened by his send- ing the most proper objects of his bounty to appren- ticeships ...
... soul as she is said to do in heaven above her sister virtues . Crowds of poor daily thronged his gates , expecting thence their bread , and were still lessened by his send- ing the most proper objects of his bounty to appren- ticeships ...
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... soul shall see That all the volumes of philosophy , With all their comments , never could invent So politic an instrument To reach the heav'n of heav'ns , the high abode Where Moses places his mysterious God , As was that ladder which ...
... soul shall see That all the volumes of philosophy , With all their comments , never could invent So politic an instrument To reach the heav'n of heav'ns , the high abode Where Moses places his mysterious God , As was that ladder which ...
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... soul a loose to joys : Let millions of repeated blisses prove That thou all kindness art and I all love . VIII . Be mine , and only mine ; take care Thy looks , thy thoughts , thy dreams , to guide To me alone ; nor come so far As ...
... soul a loose to joys : Let millions of repeated blisses prove That thou all kindness art and I all love . VIII . Be mine , and only mine ; take care Thy looks , thy thoughts , thy dreams , to guide To me alone ; nor come so far As ...
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arms beauty Belgia beneath bless blest breast Britain charms Chloe command confest cruel cry'd Cupid dame darts dear Columbo death delight Derry destin'd dread dy'd e'er earth ev'ning ev'ry eyes fair fame Fate fear flame flow'rs France giv'n give glorious glory Goddess Gods grace grief hand happy hast heart Heav'n hero HINCHINBROKE Hippolytus honest honour Jove Katharine Philips kind king live look Lord LORD BUCKHURST lov'd lyre maid marry'd MATTHEW PRIOR mighty Muse Namur ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er pain peace Phillis pleas'd pleasure poet poor pow'r praise pray'r pride Protogenes Queen quoth rage receiv'd reign reply'd Sambre sav'd sigh sing soldiers food song soul tell thee things thou thought thro to-morrow truth twas Venus verse vex'd virtue ween weep Whilst wife William's wound youth
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Página 67 - 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 56 - She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even; And opens in each heart a little Heaven.
Página 71 - Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There, Thomas, did'st thou never see ('Tis but by way of Simile !) A squirrel spend his little rage, In jumping round a rolling cage ? The cage, as either side...
Página 56 - Shadrach's zeal my glowing breast inspire, To weary tortures, and rejoice in fire; Or had I faith like that which Israel saw, When Moses gave them miracles and law...
Página 8 - tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. " So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come; No matter what beauties I saw in my way, They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! " Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me.
Página 68 - On his death-bed poor Lubin lies, His spouse is in despair ; With frequent sobs and mutual cries, They both express their care. " ' A different cause,' says Parson Sly, ' The same effect may give ; Poor Lubin fears that he shall die, His wife that he may live.
Página 24 - Serenely pleasant, calmly fair; Soft fell her words as flew the air. With secret joy I heard her say, That she would never miss one day A walk so fine, a sight so gay.
Página 20 - Andrew; and, for once, I will. — Be of your patron's mind, whate'er he says ; Sleep very much ; think little ; and talk less ; Mind neither good nor bad, nor right nor wrong, But eat your pudding, slave; and hold your tongue.
Página xxxiii - I shall have little stomach to eat ; I should therefore esteem it great favour and grace, Would you be so kind as to go in my place.
Página 155 - For while she makes her silk-worms beds, With all the tender things, I swear, Whilst all the house my passion reads, In papers round her baby's hair. She may receive and own my flame, For though the strictest prudes should know it, She'll pass for a most virtuous dame, And I for an unhappy poet.