The Works of the English Poets, Volume 20J. Nichols, 1779 - 432 pages |
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Page 21
... looks impetuous rage proclaim , 45 And why chill virgins redden into flame ; Why envy oft ' transforms with wan disguise , And why gay mith fits fmiling in the eyes ; All ice why Lucrece ; or Sempronia , fire ; Why Scarfdale rages to ...
... looks impetuous rage proclaim , 45 And why chill virgins redden into flame ; Why envy oft ' transforms with wan disguise , And why gay mith fits fmiling in the eyes ; All ice why Lucrece ; or Sempronia , fire ; Why Scarfdale rages to ...
Page 22
... looks are found , Nor eyes in rheum , through midnight - watching , drown'd ; The lonely edifice in fweats complains That nothing there but fullen filence reigns . This place , fo fit for undisturb'd repose , The God of Sloth for his ...
... looks are found , Nor eyes in rheum , through midnight - watching , drown'd ; The lonely edifice in fweats complains That nothing there but fullen filence reigns . This place , fo fit for undisturb'd repose , The God of Sloth for his ...
Page 24
... looks , how goodly is their mien , When big thy ftrut behind a double chin ! Each faculty in blandifhments they lull , Afpiring to be venerably dull ; No learn'd debates moleft their downy trance , Or difcompofe their pompous ignorance ...
... looks , how goodly is their mien , When big thy ftrut behind a double chin ! Each faculty in blandifhments they lull , Afpiring to be venerably dull ; No learn'd debates moleft their downy trance , Or difcompofe their pompous ignorance ...
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... look ; A bald and bloated toad - ftool rais'd her head ; The plumes of boding ravens were her bed : From her chapp'd noftrils fcalding torrents fall , And her funk eyes boil o'er in floods of gall . Volcanos labour thus with inward ...
... look ; A bald and bloated toad - ftool rais'd her head ; The plumes of boding ravens were her bed : From her chapp'd noftrils fcalding torrents fall , And her funk eyes boil o'er in floods of gall . Volcanos labour thus with inward ...
Page 31
... look . VARIATIONS . Worth in diftrefs is rais'd by Montague ; Auguftus liftens if Mæcenas fue ; And Vernon's vigilance no flumber takes , Whilft faction peep's abroad , and anarchy awakes . * Lee , an apothecary . 80 Black Black ...
... look . VARIATIONS . Worth in diftrefs is rais'd by Montague ; Auguftus liftens if Mæcenas fue ; And Vernon's vigilance no flumber takes , Whilft faction peep's abroad , and anarchy awakes . * Lee , an apothecary . 80 Black Black ...
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