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If poor ( you say ) The drains her husband's purse ; If rich , she keeps her priest ,
or something worse ; If highly born ... pride by turns possess her brain , Now
gayly mad , now sourly splenetic ; Freakish when well , and fretful when she's
sick .
If poor ( you say ) The drains her husband's purse ; If rich , she keeps her priest ,
or something worse ; If highly born ... pride by turns possess her brain , Now
gayly mad , now sourly splenetic ; Freakish when well , and fretful when she's
sick .
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Lotis the nymph ( if rural tales be true ) As from Priapus ' lawless luft she flew ,
Forsook her form ; and fixing here became A flowery plant , which still preserves
her name . This change unknown , astonish'd at the fight , 35 My trembling sister
...
Lotis the nymph ( if rural tales be true ) As from Priapus ' lawless luft she flew ,
Forsook her form ; and fixing here became A flowery plant , which still preserves
her name . This change unknown , astonish'd at the fight , 35 My trembling sister
...
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She wants a Heart . She speaks , behaves , and acts just as she ought ; But never
, never , reach'd one generous Thought . Virtue she finds too painful an
endeavour , Content to dwell in Decencies for ever . So very reasonable , so
unmov'd ...
She wants a Heart . She speaks , behaves , and acts just as she ought ; But never
, never , reach'd one generous Thought . Virtue she finds too painful an
endeavour , Content to dwell in Decencies for ever . So very reasonable , so
unmov'd ...
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An awkward Thing , when first she came to Town ; Her Shape unfashion'd , and
her Face unknown : 60 She was my friend ; I taught her first to spread Upon her
sallow cheeks enlivening red : I introduç'd her to the Park and Plays ; And by my ...
An awkward Thing , when first she came to Town ; Her Shape unfashion'd , and
her Face unknown : 60 She was my friend ; I taught her first to spread Upon her
sallow cheeks enlivening red : I introduç'd her to the Park and Plays ; And by my ...
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Much to the inindful Queen the feast recalls 95 What City Swans once fung within
the walls ; Much she revolves their arts , their ancient praise , And sure
succession down from Heywood's days . She saw , with joy , the line immortal run
, Each ...
Much to the inindful Queen the feast recalls 95 What City Swans once fung within
the walls ; Much she revolves their arts , their ancient praise , And sure
succession down from Heywood's days . She saw , with joy , the line immortal run
, Each ...
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Page 46 - Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 81 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 145 - How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 18 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Page 107 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 174 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 101 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 353 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 122 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 32-34 The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, 1779 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2005 |
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