The Works of the English Poets: SwiftH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... glass you fill , What is this but to inftill ? To conclude this long effay ; Pardon , if I disobey ; Nor , against my natural vein , Treat you in heroic ftrain . · I , C 3 I , as all the parish knows , Hardly can TO A LA D Y.
... glass you fill , What is this but to inftill ? To conclude this long effay ; Pardon , if I disobey ; Nor , against my natural vein , Treat you in heroic ftrain . · I , C 3 I , as all the parish knows , Hardly can TO A LA D Y.
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... against my will ? Is this your juftice , when I ' m come Above two hundred miles from home ? O'er mountains steep , o'er dufty plains , Half choak'd with duft , half drown'd with rains ; Only your Godship to implore , To let me kifs ...
... against my will ? Is this your juftice , when I ' m come Above two hundred miles from home ? O'er mountains steep , o'er dufty plains , Half choak'd with duft , half drown'd with rains ; Only your Godship to implore , To let me kifs ...
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... breakfast once a week ; To cry the bread was ftale , and mutter Complaints against the royal butter . But now I fear it will be faid , No butter flicks upon his bread . We We foon fhall find him full of spleen , For 42 POEMS . SWIFT'S.
... breakfast once a week ; To cry the bread was ftale , and mutter Complaints against the royal butter . But now I fear it will be faid , No butter flicks upon his bread . We We foon fhall find him full of spleen , For 42 POEMS . SWIFT'S.
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... ; Her arguments directly tend Against the side she would defend ; Will prove herself a Tory plain , From principles the Whigs maintain ; VOL . II . E And , And , to defend the Whiggish caufe , Her topicks FURNITURE OF A WOMAN'S MIND . 49.
... ; Her arguments directly tend Against the side she would defend ; Will prove herself a Tory plain , From principles the Whigs maintain ; VOL . II . E And , And , to defend the Whiggish caufe , Her topicks FURNITURE OF A WOMAN'S MIND . 49.
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... against the stump , And difmally was heard to whine , All as the fcrubb'd her meazly rump . The nymph who dwells in every tree , ( If all be true that poets chant ) Condemn'd by Fate's fupreme decree , Muft die with her expiring plant ...
... against the stump , And difmally was heard to whine , All as the fcrubb'd her meazly rump . The nymph who dwells in every tree , ( If all be true that poets chant ) Condemn'd by Fate's fupreme decree , Muft die with her expiring plant ...
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Страница 1 - THIS day, whate'er the Fates decree, Shall still be kept with joy by me : This day, then, let us not be told That you are sick and I grown old, Nor think on our approaching ills, And talk of spectacles and pills : To-morrow will be time enough To hear such mortifying stuff.
Страница 21 - Give no more to every guest, Than he's able to digest; Give him always of the prime; And but little at a time. Carve to all but just enough: Let them neither starve nor stuff: And, that you may have your due, Let your neighbours carve for you.
Страница 258 - em? To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts; but never to my friend: I tamely can endure the first; But this with envy makes me burst.