Miscellanies in Prose and VerseDodsley, 1750 - 405 Seiten |
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... half the boafted things we do , And praife , or profit is the point in view . From thefe , what crops of virtue blefs the land ! With thefe , how oft the mower fills his hand ! Prompted by these the knave we oft regard , While fuff'ring ...
... half the boafted things we do , And praife , or profit is the point in view . From thefe , what crops of virtue blefs the land ! With thefe , how oft the mower fills his hand ! Prompted by these the knave we oft regard , While fuff'ring ...
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... half our pains arise , Say , Mafham , what avails it to be wife ? The greatest good proud Science can bestow , But learn'd the latest , is - Our felves to know . Yet after all their search , the wise complain , This very knowledge ...
... half our pains arise , Say , Mafham , what avails it to be wife ? The greatest good proud Science can bestow , But learn'd the latest , is - Our felves to know . Yet after all their search , the wise complain , This very knowledge ...
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... half this envy'd man you've seen , 175 The outfide's fair indeed , but look within ; Perhaps there's fomething there corrodes his breast , That cruel fomething , common to the rest : Some fav'rite wifh too wild , or weak to own , Some ...
... half this envy'd man you've seen , 175 The outfide's fair indeed , but look within ; Perhaps there's fomething there corrodes his breast , That cruel fomething , common to the rest : Some fav'rite wifh too wild , or weak to own , Some ...
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... half the wretched feel , And where it strikes , the hardest wound to heal . Yet why repine at what my neighbours tafte ? 215 Since I in fomething else am just as bleft . To me perhaps kind heav'n indulgent grants The fpirits , health ...
... half the wretched feel , And where it strikes , the hardest wound to heal . Yet why repine at what my neighbours tafte ? 215 Since I in fomething else am just as bleft . To me perhaps kind heav'n indulgent grants The fpirits , health ...
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... half thy limbs , and more than half was lost Of life , thy valour still maintain'd it's post : Gave the last fignal * for thy country's good , And , dying , feal'd it with thy pureft blood . Say , what is Life ? and wherefore was it giv ...
... half thy limbs , and more than half was lost Of life , thy valour still maintain'd it's post : Gave the last fignal * for thy country's good , And , dying , feal'd it with thy pureft blood . Say , what is Life ? and wherefore was it giv ...
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Seite 372 - Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it : and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me : for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
Seite 89 - ... beau, Had many times tried o'er her heart to prevail. And would rest on his pitchfork to tell her his tale With his winning behaviour he melted her heart; For quite artless herself, she suspected no art.
Seite 80 - What tho' some envious folks have said, That Stella now must hide her head, That all her stock of beauty's gone, And ev'n the very sign took down: Yet grieve not at the fatal blow; For if you break a while, we know, 'Tis bankrupt like, more rich to grow. A fairer sign you'll soon hang up, And with fresh credit open shop...
Seite 1 - W much of paper's fpoil'd ! what floods of ink ! And yet how few, how very few can think ! The knack of writing is an eafy trade...
Seite 2 - Nothing but weeds and moss, and shrubs are found : Cut, cut them down, why cumber they the ground ? And yet you'd have me write ? For what ? for whom ? To curl a favourite in a dressing room...
Seite 2 - Glorious ambition ! noble thirft of fame !— - , No, but you'd have me write to get a name. Alas ! I'd live unknown, unenvy'd too ; 'Tis more than Pope with all his wit can do 'Tis more than you with wit and beauty join'd, A pleafing form, and a difcerning mind. The world and I are no fuch cordial friends ; I have my purpofe, they their various ends. I fay my pray'rs, and lead a fober life, Nor laugh at 'Gormis, or at Camus
Seite 88 - twas better to earn, ere she ate her brown bread ; That to rise with the lark was conducive to health, And, to folks in a cottage, contentment was wealth.
Seite 341 - But let me tell Mr. Pope, that Letters, like Beauties, may be over-dreft. There is a becoming Neg,ligence in both ; and if Mr. Pope could only contrive to write without a Genius, I don't know any one fo likely to hit off my Manner as himfelf. But he infifts upon it, that a Genius is as...
Seite 342 - tis notorious that the Ifraelites made Bricks without that Material as well as with. The Conclufion of the whole Matter is this, I never had more Inclination to write to you, and never fewer Materials at Hand to write with : Therefore have fled for Refuge to my old Companion, Dullnefs, who is ever at Hand to...
Seite 3 - The pension'd beggar, or the titled poor. These are the thriving breed, the tiny great ! Slaves ! wretched slaves ! the journeymen of state ! Philosophers ! who calmly bear disgrace, Patriots who sell their country for a place ! Shall I for these...