The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...G. Hamilton, J. Balfour, & L. Hunter, 1757 |
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... skill nor force , Leave all things to their natʼral course . THE goddess thus pronounc'd her doom : When lo ! Vanessa in her bloom 305 Advanc'd , like Atalanta's star , But rarely feen , and feen from får : In a new world with caution ...
... skill nor force , Leave all things to their natʼral course . THE goddess thus pronounc'd her doom : When lo ! Vanessa in her bloom 305 Advanc'd , like Atalanta's star , But rarely feen , and feen from får : In a new world with caution ...
Page 34
... skill ; For nature must be nature still . If he was bolder than became A fcholar to a courtly dame , She might excuse a man of letters Thus tutors often treat their betters : And , fince his talk offenfive grew , He came to take his ...
... skill ; For nature must be nature still . If he was bolder than became A fcholar to a courtly dame , She might excuse a man of letters Thus tutors often treat their betters : And , fince his talk offenfive grew , He came to take his ...
Page 42
... skill of ev'ry common beau : Who , tho ' he cannot spell , is wife Enough to read a lady's eyes , And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance . 800 805 810 815 Bur what fuccefs Vaneffa met , Is to the world a secret yet ...
... skill of ev'ry common beau : Who , tho ' he cannot spell , is wife Enough to read a lady's eyes , And will each accidental glance Interpret for a kind advance . 800 805 810 815 Bur what fuccefs Vaneffa met , Is to the world a secret yet ...
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... skill'd in nocks , Nor , like your capons , ferve your cocks . 30 VERSES written in a Lady's ivory table book . Written in the year 1706 . PERUSE my leaves thro ' ev'ry part , And think thou seeft my owner's heart , Scrawl'd o'er with ...
... skill'd in nocks , Nor , like your capons , ferve your cocks . 30 VERSES written in a Lady's ivory table book . Written in the year 1706 . PERUSE my leaves thro ' ev'ry part , And think thou seeft my owner's heart , Scrawl'd o'er with ...
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... skill'd In both capacities to build.- As herald , he can in a day * Repair a house gone to decay ; Or by atchievement , arms , device , Erect a new one in a trice ; 15 20 25 % 3.0 35 40 And as a poet , he has skill To build in ...
... skill'd In both capacities to build.- As herald , he can in a day * Repair a house gone to decay ; Or by atchievement , arms , device , Erect a new one in a trice ; 15 20 25 % 3.0 35 40 And as a poet , he has skill To build in ...
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