A commonplace book of epigrams analytically arranged, Issue 426 |
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... LADIES . MYRTILLA , rising with the dawn , Steals roses from the blushing morn ; But when Myrtilla sleeps till ten , Aurora steals them back again . ON ST . PAUL'S CATHEDRAL . THIS is God's House ; but ' tis to be deplored More come to ...
... LADIES . MYRTILLA , rising with the dawn , Steals roses from the blushing morn ; But when Myrtilla sleeps till ten , Aurora steals them back again . ON ST . PAUL'S CATHEDRAL . THIS is God's House ; but ' tis to be deplored More come to ...
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... LADY WITH FINE EYES AND A BAD VOICE . LUCETTA'S charms our hearts surprise , At once , with love and wonder : She bears Jove's lightning in her eyes . But in her voice his thunder . CELIA ALTOGETHER . YES , I'm in love , I feel it now ...
... LADY WITH FINE EYES AND A BAD VOICE . LUCETTA'S charms our hearts surprise , At once , with love and wonder : She bears Jove's lightning in her eyes . But in her voice his thunder . CELIA ALTOGETHER . YES , I'm in love , I feel it now ...
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... Lady , this I know you'll say , Better look the roses red When with white commingled . Black your hairs are , mine are white ; This begets the more delight When things meet most opposite ; As in pictures we descry Venus standing Vulcan ...
... Lady , this I know you'll say , Better look the roses red When with white commingled . Black your hairs are , mine are white ; This begets the more delight When things meet most opposite ; As in pictures we descry Venus standing Vulcan ...
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... LADY . FORGIVE , fair creature , form'd to please ; Forgive a wandering youth's desire : Those charms , those virtues , when he sees , How can he see , and not admire ? While each the other still improves , The fairest face , the ...
... LADY . FORGIVE , fair creature , form'd to please ; Forgive a wandering youth's desire : Those charms , those virtues , when he sees , How can he see , and not admire ? While each the other still improves , The fairest face , the ...
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... LADY OF A CHANGEFUL TEMPER . From Rabutin . I WOULD rather , dear girl , fewer claspings and kisses Receive , and less mutable fondness obtain , Than be one day o'erwhelm'd with your lavishing blisses , And the next overwhelm'd by your ...
... LADY OF A CHANGEFUL TEMPER . From Rabutin . I WOULD rather , dear girl , fewer claspings and kisses Receive , and less mutable fondness obtain , Than be one day o'erwhelm'd with your lavishing blisses , And the next overwhelm'd by your ...
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Page 73 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 65 - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 212 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 73 - Shakspearc and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope. Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, \ and will beat forty more...
Page 138 - But now, her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut short all; The doctors found, when she was dead, — Her last disorder mortal. Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent Street well may say, That had she lived a twelvemonth more — She had not died to-day.
Page 53 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen, about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Page 148 - What can the cause be, when the king hath given His poet sack, the household will not pay? Are they so scanted in their store? — or driven For want of knowing the poet, to say him nay? Well, they should know him, would the king but grant His poet leave to sing his household true...
Page 89 - King George in a fright, Lest Gibbon should write The story of Britain's disgrace, Thought no means more sure His pen to secure, Than to give the historian a place.