The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 40Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... things below , Nor prize your life for other ends Than merely to oblige your friends ; Your former actions claim their part , And join to fortify your heart . For Virtue in her daily race , Like Janus , bears a double face ; Looks back ...
... things below , Nor prize your life for other ends Than merely to oblige your friends ; Your former actions claim their part , And join to fortify your heart . For Virtue in her daily race , Like Janus , bears a double face ; Looks back ...
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... Clear your looks , and smooth your style ; Load our plates from every dish ; This is not the thing we wish . Colonel may be your debtor ; We expect employment better . You You must learn , if you would gain us , $ 20 POEMS . SWIFT'S.
... Clear your looks , and smooth your style ; Load our plates from every dish ; This is not the thing we wish . Colonel may be your debtor ; We expect employment better . You You must learn , if you would gain us , $ 20 POEMS . SWIFT'S.
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... thing lies . EPIGRAMS ON WINDOWS . Most of them written in 1726 . I. On a Window at an INN . WE fly from luxury and wealth , To hardships in pursuit of health ; From generous wines and costly fare , And dozing in an easy - chair ...
... thing lies . EPIGRAMS ON WINDOWS . Most of them written in 1726 . I. On a Window at an INN . WE fly from luxury and wealth , To hardships in pursuit of health ; From generous wines and costly fare , And dozing in an easy - chair ...
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... thing , For he ' ll be poor as any king : And by his crown will nothing get , But like a king to run in debt . MARBLE - HILL . No more the Dean , that grave divine , Shall keep the key of my no - wine ; My ice - house rob , as ...
... thing , For he ' ll be poor as any king : And by his crown will nothing get , But like a king to run in debt . MARBLE - HILL . No more the Dean , that grave divine , Shall keep the key of my no - wine ; My ice - house rob , as ...
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... thing : So , halloo , boys ; God fave the king ! CLEVER TOM CLINCH t AS GOING TO BE HANGED . 1727 . S clever Tom Clinch , while the rabble was bawling , Rode ftately through Holbourn to die in his calling , He ftopt at The George for a ...
... thing : So , halloo , boys ; God fave the king ! CLEVER TOM CLINCH t AS GOING TO BE HANGED . 1727 . S clever Tom Clinch , while the rabble was bawling , Rode ftately through Holbourn to die in his calling , He ftopt at The George for a ...
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Страница 250 - dead, Than all the fnivelers round my bed. My good companions, never fear; ' For though you may miftake a year, Though your prognoftics run too faft, 145 They mu'ft be verify'd at laft. Behold the fatal day arrive ! *' How is the Dean ?''—" He 's juft alive." Now the departing prayer is read ; He hardly breathes — The Dean is dead.
Страница 276 - And, when his medicines do no good, Supports their minds with heavenly food, At which, however well intended, He hears the clergy are offended ; And grown fo bold behind his back, To call him hypocrite and quack. In his own church he keeps a feat ; Says grace before and after meat; And calls, without affefting airs, His
Страница 221 - Untwifts a wire, and from her gums A fet of teeth completely comes. Pulls out the rags contriv'd to prop Her flabby dugs, and down they drop. Proceeding on, the lovely Goddefs Unlaces next her fteel-ribb'd bodice, Which, by the operator's fkill, Prefs down the lumps, the hollows fill. Up goes her hand, and off
Страница 72 - four o'clock." The chairmen are not to be found, " Come, let us play the other round." Now all in hafte they huddle on Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone ; But, firft, the winner muft invite The company to-morrow night. Unlucky madam, left in tears ..(Who now again quadrille forfwears), With empty
Страница 254 - To fancy they could live a year ! " I find you 're but a ftranger here. " The Dean was famous in his time, " And had a kind of knack at rhyme. " His way of writing now is paft
Страница 149 - Do but hear on the Clergy how glib his tongue ran ; " And, madam, fays he, if fuch dinners you give, " You'll ne'er want for Parfons as long as you live. " I ne'er knew a Parfon without a good nofe;
Страница 14 - to wrap up fpice. Get all your verfes printed fair, Then let them well be dried ; And Curll muft have a fpecial care To leave the margin wide. Lend thefe to paper-fparing* Pope; And when he fits to write, No letter with an envelope Could give him more delight. When Pope has fill'd the margins round, Why then recall your loan
Страница 145 - And not among ladies to give themfelves airs." .? Thus argued my Lady, but argued in vain ; The Knight his opinion refolved to maintain. But Hannah f, who liften'd to all that was paft, . ] And could not endure fo vulgar a tafte, * A cant word in Ireland for a poor country clergyman. F.
Страница 145 - But a rabble of tenants, and rufty dull * Rums. " With Parfons what lady can keep herfelf clean ? . " I 'm all over daub'd when I fit by the Dean. ; " But if you will give us a barrack, my dear, , ! " The Captain, I 'm fure, will always come here; ,
Страница 64 - for not a line Of all the fatire fliall be mine. Compell'd by you to tag in rhymes The common flanders of the times, Of modern times, the guilt is yours. And me my innocence fecures. Unwilling Mufe, begin thy lay, The annals of a female day. By nature turn'd to play the rake