Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poemsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... pretty rake , Dear mercenary beauty , What annual off'ring shall I make Expressive of my duty . My heart , a victim to thine eyes , Should I at once deliver , Say , would the angry fair - one prize The gift , who slights the giver ? A ...
... pretty rake , Dear mercenary beauty , What annual off'ring shall I make Expressive of my duty . My heart , a victim to thine eyes , Should I at once deliver , Say , would the angry fair - one prize The gift , who slights the giver ? A ...
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... pretty and small ; But your friend there , the doctor , eats nothing at all . " " O - ho ! " quoth my friend , " he'll come on in a trice , He's keeping a corner for something that's nice : There's a pasty " - " A pasty ! repeated the ...
... pretty and small ; But your friend there , the doctor , eats nothing at all . " " O - ho ! " quoth my friend , " he'll come on in a trice , He's keeping a corner for something that's nice : There's a pasty " - " A pasty ! repeated the ...
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... pretty Irish air , called " The Humours of Balamagairy , " to which , he told me , he found it very difficult to adapt words ; but he has succeeded very happily in these few lines . As I could sing the tune , and was fond of them , he ...
... pretty Irish air , called " The Humours of Balamagairy , " to which , he told me , he found it very difficult to adapt words ; but he has succeeded very happily in these few lines . As I could sing the tune , and was fond of them , he ...
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... pretty thing enough for our wives and daughters ; but not for us . Why now , here I stand that know nothing of books . I say , Madam , I know nothing of books ; and yet , I believe , upon a land carriage fishery , a stamp act , or a jag ...
... pretty thing enough for our wives and daughters ; but not for us . Why now , here I stand that know nothing of books . I say , Madam , I know nothing of books ; and yet , I believe , upon a land carriage fishery , a stamp act , or a jag ...
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... pretty certain . LEONTINE . Whatever it be , my dearest , I'm resolved to put it out of fortune's power to repeat our mortification . I'll haste and prepare for our journey to Scotland this very evening . My friend Honeywood has ...
... pretty certain . LEONTINE . Whatever it be , my dearest , I'm resolved to put it out of fortune's power to repeat our mortification . I'll haste and prepare for our journey to Scotland this very evening . My friend Honeywood has ...
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aunt BAILIFF bar-maid battle of Belgrade believe blessing breast BULKLEY CHALDEAN Charles Marlow charms daughter David Garrick dear DIGGORY e'en Ecod Enter Miss Epilogue Exeunt Exit eyes father favour fear fellow folly fool forgive fortune friendship GARNET girl give GOLDSMITH good-natur'd hand happiness HASTINGS hear heart Heaven honour hope horses hour humour impudence JARVIS jewels keep lady laugh leave LEONTINE letter LOFTY look Lord Madam maid MARLOW married mean mind Miss CATLEY Miss HARDCASTLE Miss NEVILLE Miss RICHLAND modest never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH OLIVIA pardon passion pleasure poor POSTBOY Pray pretty pride PROPHET pruin scarce scene SERVANT shew Sir CHARLES Sir William Honeywood smiling soul stept STOOPS TO CONQUER sure sweet SWEET AUBURN talk tell thee there's thing thou TONY undone wretch Zounds
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Страница 73 - Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all — her friends, her virtue fled — Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...
Страница 70 - To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested...
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Страница 65 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Страница 66 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Страница 49 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Страница 71 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells...
Страница 38 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his fo6d, And learn the luxury of doing good.
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