The Works of the Most Celebrated Minor Poets: Containing the Works of George Stepney, William Walsh, Thomas Tickell, Never Before Collected and Publish'd Together. Volume the second, Том 1

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Страница 6 - Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense.
Страница 128 - To pass our tedious hours away We throw a merry main, Or else at serious ombre play; But why should we in vain Each other's ruin thus pursue ? We were undone when we left you — With a fa, la, la, la, la.
Страница 128 - 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.
Страница 128 - 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.
Страница 15 - Apocrypha; And such as can believe them, freely may. But did that God (so little understood) Whose darling attribute is being good, From the dark womb of the rude chaos bring Such various creatures, and make man their king: Yet leave his favourite man, his chiefest care, More wretched than the vilest insects are ? O ! how much happier and more safe are they?
Страница 278 - It is uncertain who have the greatest obligation to him, the dead or the living. " With all these wondrous talents he was libelled, in his lifetime, by the very men who had no other excellencies but as they were his imitators. Where he was allowed to have sentiments superior to all others, they charged him with theft. But how did he steal? no otherwise than like those who steal beggars' children, only to clothe them the better.
Страница 133 - But to those that have had my dear Bess in their arms, She's gentle and knows how to soften her charms ^ And to every beauty can add a new grace, Having learn'd how to lisp, and to trip in her pace; And with head on one side, and a languishing eye, To kill us by looking as if she would die.
Страница 303 - Cippus, ftarting at th' event, Spoke in thefe words his pious difcontent. Far hence, ye gods, this execration fend, And the great race of Romulus defend. Better that I in exile live abhorr'd, Than e'er the capitol fhou'd ftile me lord.
Страница 16 - If helplefs millions muft be doom'da prey To yelling furies, and for ever burn In that fad place from whence is no return, For unbelief in one they never knew, Or for not doing what they could not do...
Страница 10 - But what a thoughtless animal is man ! (How very active in his own trepan ! ) For, greedy of physicians...

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