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... Lies there ne trap their necks to catch , Ne old black cat their steps to watch , Their fill they eat of fowl and fish ; Feast lyche as heart of mouse mote wish . As guefts fat jovial at the board , Forth leap'd our mice : eftfoons the ...
... Lies there ne trap their necks to catch , Ne old black cat their steps to watch , Their fill they eat of fowl and fish ; Feast lyche as heart of mouse mote wish . As guefts fat jovial at the board , Forth leap'd our mice : eftfoons the ...
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... lies what once was Matthew Prior ; The fon of Adam and of Eve , Can Bourbon or Naffau claim higher ? Το For my own TOMBSTONE . ' O me ' twas given to die : to thee ' tis given To live : alas ! one moment fets us even . Mark ! how ...
... lies what once was Matthew Prior ; The fon of Adam and of Eve , Can Bourbon or Naffau claim higher ? Το For my own TOMBSTONE . ' O me ' twas given to die : to thee ' tis given To live : alas ! one moment fets us even . Mark ! how ...
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... lie . III . Yet , counting as far as to fifty his years , His virtues and vices were as other men's are ; High hopes he conceiv'd , and he smother'd great fears , In a life party - colour'd , half pleasure , half care . IV . Nor to ...
... lie . III . Yet , counting as far as to fifty his years , His virtues and vices were as other men's are ; High hopes he conceiv'd , and he smother'd great fears , In a life party - colour'd , half pleasure , half care . IV . Nor to ...
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... lie here , And no mortal yet knows too if this may VII . be true . Fierce robbers there are that infest the highway , So Mat may be kill'd , and his bones never found ; Falfe witness at court , and fierce tempests at fea , So Mat may ...
... lie here , And no mortal yet knows too if this may VII . be true . Fierce robbers there are that infest the highway , So Mat may be kill'd , and his bones never found ; Falfe witness at court , and fierce tempests at fea , So Mat may ...
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... lie , No new hereafter , nor a future fky ; Yet bear thy lot content ; yet cease to grieve ; Why , ere death comes , doft thou forbear to live ? The little time thou haft , ' twixt instant now And Fate's approach , is all the Gods allow ...
... lie , No new hereafter , nor a future fky ; Yet bear thy lot content ; yet cease to grieve ; Why , ere death comes , doft thou forbear to live ? The little time thou haft , ' twixt instant now And Fate's approach , is all the Gods allow ...
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Page 128 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 128 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 100 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 100 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page 164 - Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices ; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
Page 215 - Thus talking and scolding, they forward did speed ; And Ralpho pac'd by, under Newman the Swede. Into an old inn did this equipage roll, At a town they call Hodson, the sign of the Bull, Near a nymph with an urn, that divides the highway, And into a puddle throws mother of tea.
Page 27 - DID sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue, Than ever man pronounc'd, or angels sung; Had I all knowledge, human and divine, That thought can reach, or science can define; And had I power to give that knowledge birth, In all the speeches of the babbling earth...
Page 14 - Then take Mat's word for it, the sculptor is paid ; That the figure is fine, pray believe your own eye ; Yet credit but lightly what more may be said, For we flatter ourselves, and teach marble to lie.
Page 43 - Spring from his influence darted thence. So from the middle of the world The sun's prolific rays are hurl'd : Tis from that seat he darts those beams, Which quicken earth with genial flames.
Page 227 - Of all the gifts the gods afford (If we may take old Tully's word) The greatest is a friend; whose love Knows how to praise, and when reprove : From such a treasure never part, But hang the jewel on your heart: And, pray, sir, (it delights me) tell; You know this author mighty well...