Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose ...T. Longman, 1796 - 1008 Seiten |
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... best thing in him Is his complexion : and faster than his tongue Did make offence , his eye did heal it up . He is not very tall , yet for his years he ' s tall ; His leg is but so so ; and yet ' tis well : There was a pretty redness in ...
... best thing in him Is his complexion : and faster than his tongue Did make offence , his eye did heal it up . He is not very tall , yet for his years he ' s tall ; His leg is but so so ; and yet ' tis well : There was a pretty redness in ...
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... best enamelled Will lofe its beauty and tho ' gold bides still , That others touch ; yet often touching will Wear gold . And fo no man that hath a name , But falfehood and corruption doth it shame . Wife's Exbortation on a Husband's ...
... best enamelled Will lofe its beauty and tho ' gold bides still , That others touch ; yet often touching will Wear gold . And fo no man that hath a name , But falfehood and corruption doth it shame . Wife's Exbortation on a Husband's ...
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... best of reft is fleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'ft Thy death , which is no more . Thou ' rt not thyfelf ; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains , That iffue out of dust . Happy thou art not ; For what thou ...
... best of reft is fleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'ft Thy death , which is no more . Thou ' rt not thyfelf ; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains , That iffue out of dust . Happy thou art not ; For what thou ...
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... best thou diest quickly ! Virtue and Goodness . Virtue is bold , and goodness never fearful . A Barwd . Fie , firrah ! a bawd - a wicked bawd ! The evil that thou causeft to be done , That is thy means to live . Doft thou but think What ...
... best thou diest quickly ! Virtue and Goodness . Virtue is bold , and goodness never fearful . A Barwd . Fie , firrah ! a bawd - a wicked bawd ! The evil that thou causeft to be done , That is thy means to live . Doft thou but think What ...
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... best men are moulded out of faults ; And , for the most , become much more the better For being a little bad ; so may my husband . Intents more excufable than Acts . His act did not o'ertake his bad intent ; And must be buried but as an ...
... best men are moulded out of faults ; And , for the most , become much more the better For being a little bad ; so may my husband . Intents more excufable than Acts . His act did not o'ertake his bad intent ; And must be buried but as an ...
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Seite 715 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Seite 622 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Seite 714 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Seite 548 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 621 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Seite 619 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent...
Seite 620 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Seite 570 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Seite 683 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Seite 548 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.