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Seite 66 - Methinks, we need not our short beings shun, And, thought to fly, contend to be undone. We need not buy our ruin with our crime, And give eternity to murder time. The love of gaming is the worst of ills ; With ceaseless storms the blacken'd soul it fills ; 1 Shakespeare VOL.
Seite 41 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Seite 198 - Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleas'd her. O! when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour join'd...
Seite 73 - O faireft of creation, laft and beft Of all God's works, Creature in whom excell'd Whatever can to fight or thought be form'd, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or fweet! How art thou loft, how on a...
Seite 111 - Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear : Safe in the hand of one difpofing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Seite 19 - Too ftrong for feeble women to fuftain ; Of thofe who claim it, more than half have none, And half of thofe who have it, are undone. Be ftill fuperior to your fex's arts, Nor think...
Seite 198 - d by her fair tendence gladlier grew. Yet went fhe not, as not with fuch difcourfe Delighted, or not capable her ear Of what was high : fuch pleafure...
Seite 66 - With ceaseless storms the blacken'd soul it fills ; Inveighs at heaven, neglects the ties of blood ; Destroys the power and will of doing good ; Kills health, pawns honour, plunges in disgrace, And, what is still more dreadful — spoils your face.
Seite 121 - All fame is foreign, but of true defert ; Plays round the head,, but comes not to the heart...
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| Titel | The History of Portia: Written by a Lady. ... Eighteenth Century English short title catalogue Eighteenth Century collection The History of Portia: Written by a Lady, Lady |
| Autor/in | Lady |
| Verlag | R. Withy; J. Pottinger; J. Wilkie; and J. Cooke, 1759 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 24. Juli 2006 |
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