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... force of wit , which made even anger agreeable while it lafted , he said and forgot a thousand things , which other men would have been glad to have studied and wrote ; but the impe- tuofity was corrected upon a moment's reflection ...
... force of wit , which made even anger agreeable while it lafted , he said and forgot a thousand things , which other men would have been glad to have studied and wrote ; but the impe- tuofity was corrected upon a moment's reflection ...
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... force of harmony , that thus controuls Our thoughts , and.turns and fanctifies our fouls : While with its utmost art your fex could move Our wonder only , or at best our love : You You far above both these your God did place , 28 ...
... force of harmony , that thus controuls Our thoughts , and.turns and fanctifies our fouls : While with its utmost art your fex could move Our wonder only , or at best our love : You You far above both these your God did place , 28 ...
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... force dilate , And thoughts grow up to wit's estate ; In verfe or profe , we write or chat , Not fix - pence matter upon what . ' Tis not how well an author fays ; But ' tis how much , that gathers praife . Tonfon , who is himself a wit ...
... force dilate , And thoughts grow up to wit's estate ; In verfe or profe , we write or chat , Not fix - pence matter upon what . ' Tis not how well an author fays ; But ' tis how much , that gathers praife . Tonfon , who is himself a wit ...
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... force of guilty charms , Has long enthrall'd him in her wither'd arms , Shall o'er the plains , from diftant towers on high , Caft around her mournful eye , And with prophetic forrow cry : " Why does my ruin❜d lord retard his flight ...
... force of guilty charms , Has long enthrall'd him in her wither'd arms , Shall o'er the plains , from diftant towers on high , Caft around her mournful eye , And with prophetic forrow cry : " Why does my ruin❜d lord retard his flight ...
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... force with Beauty's join'd ? Could I their prevalence deny , I must at once be deaf and blind . V. Alas ! not hoping to fubdue , I only to the fight afpir'd : To keep the beauteous foe in view Was all the glory I defir'd . VI . But fhe ...
... force with Beauty's join'd ? Could I their prevalence deny , I must at once be deaf and blind . V. Alas ! not hoping to fubdue , I only to the fight afpir'd : To keep the beauteous foe in view Was all the glory I defir'd . VI . But fhe ...
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Page 121 - To be vexed at a trifle or two that I writ, Your judgment at once and my passion you wrong: You take that for fact which will scarce be found wit: Od's life!
Page 128 - Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfin'd; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Page 122 - Thetis's breast. So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me.
Page 100 - Or on Meander's bank, or Latmus' peak. But in this nymph, my friend, my sister know : She draws my arrows, and she bends my bow : Fair Thames she haunts, and every neighb'ring grove, Sacred to soft recess, and gentle love.
Page 122 - tis his fancy to run ; At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way; They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
Page 191 - Or if it be his fate to meet With folks who have more wealth than wit. He loves cheap port, and double bub, And settles in the Humdrum Club; He learns how stocks will fall or rise; Holds poverty the greatest vice ; Thinks wit the bane of conversation ; And says that learning spoils a nation.
Page 98 - To Me pertains not, She replies, To know or care where CUPID flies ; What are his Haunts, or which his Way ; Where He would dwell, or whither stray : Yet will I never set Thee free : For Harm was meant, and Harm to Me.
Page 33 - Till, patience vex'd, and legs grown weary, I thought it was in vain to tarry: But did opine it might be better, By penny-post to send a letter; Now if you miss of this epistle, I'm balk'd again, and may go whistle.
Page 130 - The Change, the City, or the Play, As each was proper for the day : A turn in summer to Hyde Park, When it grew tolerably dark.
Page 84 - S'en va tomber sous la foudre Qui dompta Lille, Courtrai; Gand, la superbe espagnole, Saint-Omer, Besançon, Dole, Ypres, Mastricht et Cambrai. Mes présages s'accomplissent : 11 commence à chanceler. Sous les coups qui retentissent Ses murs s'en vont s'écrouler.