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... arms could over - run the country , yet nobody could ever find out his head quarters . Tatt . Close , dog ! a good whoremaster , I warrant him ! The time draws nigh , Jeremy , Angelica will be veiled like a nun ; and I must be hooded ...
... arms could over - run the country , yet nobody could ever find out his head quarters . Tatt . Close , dog ! a good whoremaster , I warrant him ! The time draws nigh , Jeremy , Angelica will be veiled like a nun ; and I must be hooded ...
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... arms he now depends , Nor fears he odds if they but prove his friends ; For as he once a little handful chose The numerous armies of the world t ' oppose : So back'd by you who understands the rules , He hopes to rout the mighty host of ...
... arms he now depends , Nor fears he odds if they but prove his friends ; For as he once a little handful chose The numerous armies of the world t ' oppose : So back'd by you who understands the rules , He hopes to rout the mighty host of ...
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... arm ! Lend it , old Clytus . to redeem my fame ; Lysimachus is brave , snd else will scorn me . Lys . There , take thy sword ; and since thou ' rt bent on death , Know ' t is thy glory that thou dy'st by me . 1 Clyt . Stay thee ...
... arm ! Lend it , old Clytus . to redeem my fame ; Lysimachus is brave , snd else will scorn me . Lys . There , take thy sword ; and since thou ' rt bent on death , Know ' t is thy glory that thou dy'st by me . 1 Clyt . Stay thee ...
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... arms . Clyt . Yes , Troy they tell us by a woman fell ; Curse on the sex , they are the bane of virtue ! Death ! I'd rather this right arm were lost Than that the king should hear of your imprudence- What , on a day thus set apart for ...
... arms . Clyt . Yes , Troy they tell us by a woman fell ; Curse on the sex , they are the bane of virtue ! Death ! I'd rather this right arm were lost Than that the king should hear of your imprudence- What , on a day thus set apart for ...
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... arms , Dotes on my conq'ror , my dear lord , my king ! Oh , ' t is too much ! by Heaven I cannot bear it ! She clasps him all - she , the curst happy she- I'll die , or rid me of the burning torture ! Hear me bright god of day ! hear ev ...
... arms , Dotes on my conq'ror , my dear lord , my king ! Oh , ' t is too much ! by Heaven I cannot bear it ! She clasps him all - she , the curst happy she- I'll die , or rid me of the burning torture ! Hear me bright god of day ! hear ev ...
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Page viii - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 37 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Page 44 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page ix - But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page xl - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page i - My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss.
Page 43 - All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring; The Graces and the rosy-bosom'd Hours Thither all their bounties bring...
Page 32 - Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.
Page 15 - Lungs ! — my only care is, Where to get stuff enough now, to project on ; This town will not half serve me. Face. No, sir ! buy The covering off o
Page ix - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.