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... Fortune is frequently favourable in the arrange- ment of events : an escape from the enthusiasm of his politics might have rendered the great MILTON an uncouth Historian , and an unsuc- cessful Dramatist . The extent of his attainments ...
... Fortune is frequently favourable in the arrange- ment of events : an escape from the enthusiasm of his politics might have rendered the great MILTON an uncouth Historian , and an unsuc- cessful Dramatist . The extent of his attainments ...
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... Fortune blind , " To the best she's oft ' unkind , " And the worst her favour find . 250 E. Bro . " By her own sentence Virtue stands ab- solv'd , " Nor asks an echo from the tongues of men " To tell what hourly to herself she proves ...
... Fortune blind , " To the best she's oft ' unkind , " And the worst her favour find . 250 E. Bro . " By her own sentence Virtue stands ab- solv'd , " Nor asks an echo from the tongues of men " To tell what hourly to herself she proves ...
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John Bell. DUET . Let the great enjoy the blessings By indulgent fortune sent : What can wealth , can grandeur offer More than plenty and content . 10 Fai . Well done , well done ; ' tis a sure sign work goes on merrily when folks sing ...
John Bell. DUET . Let the great enjoy the blessings By indulgent fortune sent : What can wealth , can grandeur offer More than plenty and content . 10 Fai . Well done , well done ; ' tis a sure sign work goes on merrily when folks sing ...
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... fortune : master Goodman tells me a matter of twenty or thirty thousand pounds . 117 Pat . If it was a million , father , it would not be more than my lord Aimworth deserves ; I suppose the wed- ding will be celebrated here at the ...
... fortune : master Goodman tells me a matter of twenty or thirty thousand pounds . 117 Pat . If it was a million , father , it would not be more than my lord Aimworth deserves ; I suppose the wed- ding will be celebrated here at the ...
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... fortune , as this farmer is to me ; and under what pretence can I refuse the husband my father has found for me ! Shall I say that I have dared to raise my inclinations above my condition , and presumed to love , where my duty taught me ...
... fortune , as this farmer is to me ; and under what pretence can I refuse the husband my father has found for me ! Shall I say that I have dared to raise my inclinations above my condition , and presumed to love , where my duty taught me ...
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affair beauty believe better bless bliss brother charms Clar CLARISSA Colonel OLDBOY Comus COVENT GARDEN dare daugh daughter dear Dian DIANA Dibdin ev'ry FANNY farmer father favour fear Flowerdale's fortune garden gentleman Giles gipsies girl give happy Harman hear heart Heaven hither honour hope ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Jenny JESSAMY joys justice of peace LADY SYCAMORE Lion Lionel live look Lord AIMWORTH Lord Harry lordship Madam marry Master Fairfield master Jenkins MERVIN mind Miss Naiads never night nymph Oldboy's papa Patty pleasure pow'r pray Ralph SCENE VIII SCENE XI servant shew Sir Harry Sir John Flowerdale SONG soul speak Spirit sure sweet talk tell thee THEODOSIA there's thing thou thought thro told vex'd vext virtue what's wish word young lady youth Zounds
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Seite 47 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Seite 48 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Seite 17 - But their way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger...
Seite 31 - Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Seite 60 - Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence...
Seite 23 - My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss.
Seite 48 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come,- and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Seite 56 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...
Seite 34 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...