The Works of the English Poets: Otway, Duke and DorsetSamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... flame : Defolation foon he made , And our new Sodom low in afhes laid . Distractions and diftrufts then did amongst us rife , When , in her pious old difguife , This witch with all her mischief - making train Began to fhew herself again ...
... flame : Defolation foon he made , And our new Sodom low in afhes laid . Distractions and diftrufts then did amongst us rife , When , in her pious old difguife , This witch with all her mischief - making train Began to fhew herself again ...
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... flame : Defolation foon he made , And our new Sodom low in ashes laid . Distractions and diftrufts then did amongst us rife , When , in her pious old disguise , This witch with all her mifchief - making train Began to fhew herself again ...
... flame : Defolation foon he made , And our new Sodom low in ashes laid . Distractions and diftrufts then did amongst us rife , When , in her pious old disguise , This witch with all her mifchief - making train Began to fhew herself again ...
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... flame like mine ! Oh Yet of my wedlock vows I ' ll lofe no care , Search back through all my fame , thou ' lt find it fair . But Love long breeding to worst pain does turn ; Outward unharm'd , within , within I burn ! As the young bull ...
... flame like mine ! Oh Yet of my wedlock vows I ' ll lofe no care , Search back through all my fame , thou ' lt find it fair . But Love long breeding to worst pain does turn ; Outward unharm'd , within , within I burn ! As the young bull ...
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... flames and all thy fears . HORACE , BOOK II . ODE VIII . F ever any IF injur❜d power , By which the false Bariné swore , Falfe , fair Bariné , on thy head Had the leaft mark of vengeance fhed ; If but a tooth or nail of thee Had fuffer ...
... flames and all thy fears . HORACE , BOOK II . ODE VIII . F ever any IF injur❜d power , By which the false Bariné swore , Falfe , fair Bariné , on thy head Had the leaft mark of vengeance fhed ; If but a tooth or nail of thee Had fuffer ...
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... flames of fierce defire ; For whom I twice would die , to fave His youth more precious from the grave . HORAC E. What if our former loves return , And our first fires again should burn ; If Chloe's banish'd , to make way For the ...
... flames of fierce defire ; For whom I twice would die , to fave His youth more precious from the grave . HORAC E. What if our former loves return , And our first fires again should burn ; If Chloe's banish'd , to make way For the ...
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Page 189 - And now we've told you all our loves, And likewise all our fears, In hopes this declaration moves Some pity from your tears ; Let's hear of no inconstancy, We have too much of that at sea. With a fa, la, la, la, la.
Page 26 - Twas far from any path, but where the Earth Was bare, and naked all as at her birth, When by the Word it first was made, Ere God had said, Let grass, and herds, and every green thing grow, With fruitful trees after their kind, and it was so.
Page 324 - Would soon finish his woes. When in rage he came there, Beholding how steep The sides did appear, And the bottom how deep; His torments projecting, And sadly reflecting, That a lover forsaken A new love may get, But a neck, when once broken, Can never be set: And, that he could die Whenever he would...
Page 43 - Thus, like Alcides in his lion's skin, He very dreadful grew. But, like that Hercules when love crept in, And th...
Page 187 - Should foggy Opdam chance to know Our sad and dismal story, The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe, And quit their fort at Goree: For what resistance can they find From men who've left their hearts behind ?With a fa, la, la, la, la.
Page 186 - For though the muses should prove kind, And fill our empty brain ; Yet if rough Neptune rouse the wind To wave the azure main, Our paper, pen, and ink, and we, Roll up and down our ships at sea.
Page 46 - But constant as the stars that never move ; Or as women would have love. The trembling genius of their state Look'd out, and straight shrunk back his head, To see our daring banners spread.
Page 301 - LET the dull merchant curse his angry fate, And from the winds and waves his fortune wait: Let the loud lawyer break his brains, and be A slave to wrangling coxcombs for a fee: Let the rough soldier fight his prince's foes, And for a livelihood his life expose: I wage no war, I plead no cause but love's, I fear no storms, but what Celinda moves.
Page 52 - Diana be ador'd alone ; Must she have all thy vows and Venus none ? That pleasure palls, if 'tis enjoy'd too long ; Love makes the weary firm, the feeble strong.
Page 321 - T' increase that wealth he wants the soul to spend. Poor Shifter does his whole contrivance set, To spend that wealth he wants the sense to get. How happy would appear to each his fate. Had Gripe his humour, or he Gripe's estate 1 Kind Fate and Fortune, blend them if you can, And of two wretches make one happy man!