The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. With a Copious Index, Том 2

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Walker and Edwards, 1816

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Страница 26 - Tis now full time my Ode should end : And now I tell Thee, like a friend, Howe'er the World may scout Thee ; Thy ways are all so wondrous winning, And folks so very fond of sinning, They cannot do without Thee.
Страница 399 - GREAT MAN, BUT WHICH MISSED HIM. Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unluckily thrown— I think very different, with thousands indeed, 'T was a lucky escape for the stone.
Страница 80 - For human happiness, by gracious Heav'n, And that we came not into life to cry : To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of Goodness, was an undertaker, Well pleas'd to wrap the soul's unlucky mien In sorrow's dismal crape, or bombasine.
Страница 199 - I should make this coat my coat of arms, In fancy glittering with a thousand charms; And show my children's children o'er and o'er ;
Страница 200 - ve said it often, and I think so still; Doctrine to make the million stare ! Know then, each mortal is an actual Jove ; Can brew what weather he shall most approve, Or wind, or calm, or foul, or Cur.
Страница 15 - Almighty to reform, If in his goodness only once, once more, He'll suffer them to clap a foot on shore. In calms indeed, or gentle airs, They ne'er on week-days pester Heaven with prayers ; For 'tis amongst the Jacks a common saying, " Where there's no danger, there's no need of praying.
Страница 134 - Till penury stares them in the face ; And when they find an empty purse, Grown calmer, wiser, how the fault they curse, And, limping, look with such a sneaking grace! Job's war-horse fierce, his neck with thunder hung, Sunk to an humble hack that carries dung.
Страница 79 - Macaulay turns on Kings her tail, "With great respect the sacred names I hail; That is, of Monarchs who respect themselves. But should they act with meanness, or like Fools, The Muse shall place a Fool's-cap on their sculls.
Страница 383 - Who gave, perhaps, the wide-resounding scream, And now sits groaning for thy precious life. Yes,' go and carry comfort to thy friends, And wisely tell them thy imprudence ends. Let buns and sugar for the future charm; These will delight, and feed, and work no harm — While Punch, the grinning, merry imp of sin, Invites th...
Страница 43 - I'm de moder of de poor Chew lad, Dat meet mishfarten here so bad ; Sher, I muss haf de shilling back, you know, Ass Moses haf nat sec de show.

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