Fables ancient and modern, tr. into verse: with original poems, Volume 21771 |
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... Dame Partlet was the fovereign of his heart : Ardent in love , outrageous in his play , He feather'd her a hundred times a day : And she that was not only paffing fair , But was withal difcreet , and debonnair , Wife , hardy , secret ...
... Dame Partlet was the fovereign of his heart : Ardent in love , outrageous in his play , He feather'd her a hundred times a day : And she that was not only paffing fair , But was withal difcreet , and debonnair , Wife , hardy , secret ...
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... dame thou art affer'd , Haft thou no manly heart , and hast a beard ? If ought from fearful dreams may be divin'd , They fignify a cock of dunghill - kind . All dreams , as in old Galen I have read , Are from repletion and complexion ...
... dame thou art affer'd , Haft thou no manly heart , and hast a beard ? If ought from fearful dreams may be divin'd , They fignify a cock of dunghill - kind . All dreams , as in old Galen I have read , Are from repletion and complexion ...
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... dames is idle stuff . Legends of lying wits together bound , The wife of Bath would throw ' em to the ground : These are the words of chanticleer , not mine , I honour dames , and think their fex divine . Now to continue what my tale ...
... dames is idle stuff . Legends of lying wits together bound , The wife of Bath would throw ' em to the ground : These are the words of chanticleer , not mine , I honour dames , and think their fex divine . Now to continue what my tale ...
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... dame , Of high degree , Honoria was her name : Fair as the fairest , but of haughty mind , And fiercer than became so soft a kind ; Proud of her birth ; ( for equal she had none ; ) The reft she scorn'd ; but hated him alone . His gifts ...
... dame , Of high degree , Honoria was her name : Fair as the fairest , but of haughty mind , And fiercer than became so soft a kind ; Proud of her birth ; ( for equal she had none ; ) The reft she scorn'd ; but hated him alone . His gifts ...
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... dame diftrefs'd , who cry'd for aid , And fill'd with loud laments the fecret fhade . A thicket close beside the grove there stood With briers , and brambles choak'd , and dwarfish wood : From thence the noife : which now approaching ...
... dame diftrefs'd , who cry'd for aid , And fill'd with loud laments the fecret fhade . A thicket close beside the grove there stood With briers , and brambles choak'd , and dwarfish wood : From thence the noife : which now approaching ...
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Achilles againſt Ajax ANDREW FOULIS arms becauſe beſt betwixt blood breaſt Caeneus caft call'd caſt cauſe Centaur Ceyx chanticleer cloſe Corythus cou'd crown'd cry'd Cymon Daedalion dame death defcended defire deſpair dream durft Eurytus ev'n ev'ry eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate fear feas feaſt feek feem'd feen feiz'd fent fhall fide fight fince fire firſt flain fleep fome foon forc'd fought foul freſh ftill fuch fword gueſt hand heav'n himſelf Hippodame houſe huſband join'd juſt laft laſt lefs loft look'd lov'd maid mind mix'd moſt muſt night pleaſe pleaſure pow'r prefs'd prey Priam purfu'd purſue rais'd receiv'd refolv'd reft reſt Reynard rifing ſaid ſcarce ſeen ſhades ſhall ſhe ſhield ſhip ſhore ſhould ſide ſkies ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtill ſtood ſtrange ſtrength ſweet thee thefe theſe thoſe thou try'd turn'd Twas waves whoſe wife winds wou'd wound
Popular passages
Page 65 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Page 153 - Smear'd over with an Oil of wond'rous Might, That adds new Pinions to their airy Flight But this by fure Experiment we know, That living Creatures from Corruption grow: Hide in a hollow Pit a flaughter'd Steer, Bees from his putrid Bowels will appear ; Who like their Parents haunt the Fields, and bring Their Hony-Harveft home, and hope another Spring.
Page 61 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Page 60 - Joys inspire. The Song began from Jove ; Who left his blissful Seats above, (Such is the Pow'r of mighty Love.) A Dragon's fiery Form bely'd the God : Sublime on Radiant Spires He rode, When He to fair Olympia...
Page 167 - Her limbs were form'd with such harmonious grace : So faultless was the frame, as if the whole Had been an emanation of the soul...
Page 34 - He cheer'd the dogs to follow her who fled, And vow'd revenge on her devoted head. As Theodore was born of noble kind, The brutal...
Page 3 - And two Ghosts join their Packs to hunt her o'er the Plain. This dreadful Image so possess'd her Mind, That desp'rate any Succour else to find, She ceas'd all farther hope; and now began To make reflection on th...
Page 62 - And welt'ring in his blood ; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed : On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.