The Works of the English Poets: Congreve and FentonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... please , With one commanding nod appease . III . Seek not to know to - morrow's doom ; That is not ours , which is to come . The prefent moment's all our store : The next , fhould heaven allow , Then this will be no more : So all our ...
... please , With one commanding nod appease . III . Seek not to know to - morrow's doom ; That is not ours , which is to come . The prefent moment's all our store : The next , fhould heaven allow , Then this will be no more : So all our ...
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... please . A BS E N C E. ALAS ! what pains , what racking thoughts he proves , Who lives remov'd from her he deareft loves ! In cruel abfence doom'd past joys to mourn , And think on hours that will no more return ! Oh let me ne'er the ...
... please . A BS E N C E. ALAS ! what pains , what racking thoughts he proves , Who lives remov'd from her he deareft loves ! In cruel abfence doom'd past joys to mourn , And think on hours that will no more return ! Oh let me ne'er the ...
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... please ; And he whofe thin tranfparent rags declare How much his tatter'd fortune wants repair , Would ranfack every element for choice Of every fish and fowl at any price ; If , brought from far , it very dear has cost , It has a ...
... please ; And he whofe thin tranfparent rags declare How much his tatter'd fortune wants repair , Would ranfack every element for choice Of every fish and fowl at any price ; If , brought from far , it very dear has cost , It has a ...
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... please us now but from Japan . Invite my lord to dine , and let him have The nicest dish his appetite can crave ; But let it on an oaken board be fet , His lordship will grow fick , and cannot eat : Something's amifs , he knows not what ...
... please us now but from Japan . Invite my lord to dine , and let him have The nicest dish his appetite can crave ; But let it on an oaken board be fet , His lordship will grow fick , and cannot eat : Something's amifs , he knows not what ...
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... please , Since born without the bounds of your four feas . For if you grant no favour as ' tis new , Yet as a stranger , there is fomething due : From Rome ( to try its fate ) this play was fent ; Start not at Rome ! for there's no ...
... please , Since born without the bounds of your four feas . For if you grant no favour as ' tis new , Yet as a stranger , there is fomething due : From Rome ( to try its fate ) this play was fent ; Start not at Rome ! for there's no ...
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Amyntas arms beauteous beauty blefs breaſt bright caufe charms cry'd Dæmon dear defire deſpair earth eaſe Epode Ev'n eyes face facred fafe faid fair fame fate fear feas feek feems feen fhade fhall fhining fhould fighs fight fing fire firft firſt fix'd flain flowers flowing tears foft fome fong foon forrow foul fpring freſh ftill ftrains ftreams fuch fudden fung fure fwain fweet goddeſs gods grace grief grove heart heaven himſelf honour huſband Jove laft laſt lefs light lov'd lyre maid moft moſt mourn Mufe muft Muſe muſt ne'er numbers nymph o'er Otreus paffion Phaon Phoebus Pindar plain pleafing pleaſe praiſe Priam Procris purſue rage raiſe reft rife Sappho ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhow ſkies ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill ſweet taſte tender thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou verfe weeping Whilft whofe whoſe youth
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Página 63 - Notes afcend the Skies; Perpetual Breath the fwelling Notes fupplies, And lafting as her Name, Who form'd the tuneful Frame, Th
Página 52 - Adieu \ Since Women prove ungrateful, As oft as Men prove true. The Pains they caufe are many, And long and hard to bear, The Joys they give (if any) Few,fhort, and unjincere.
Página 234 - But sometimes stoop'd to please a barbarous age : When his immortal bays began to grow Rude was the language, and the humour low ; He, like the God of day, was always bright, But rolling in its course, his orb of light Was sullied, and obscur'd, though soaring high, With spots contracted from the nether sky. But whither is the...
Página 29 - Let all be hushed, each softest motion cease, Be ev'ry loud tumultuous thought at peace ; And ev'ry ruder gasp of breath Be calm as in the arms of death : And thou, most fickle, most uneasy part, Thou restless wanderer, my heart, Be still ; gently, ah ! gently leave, Thou busy, idle thing, to heave : Stir not a pulse; and let my blood, That turbulent, unruly flood, Be softly staid : Let me be all, but my attention, dead.
Página 62 - Viftory and Peace reftore Her faithful Lover to her tender Breaft, Within her folding Arms to reft, Thence never to be parted more > No never to be parted more.
Página 82 - Whofe wit is beft, we'll not prefume to tell ; But this we know, our audience will excel: For never was in Rome, nor Athens, feen So fair a circle, and fo bright a Queen. .». Long has the Mufes...
Página 105 - As one she ne'er had known. So well she can the truth disguise, Such artful wonder frame, The lover or distrusts his eyes, Or thinks 'twas all a dream. Some...
Página 88 - J-adies and all, i'faith, now get astride. Contriving characters, and scenes, and plots, Is grown as common now, as knitting knots : With the same ease, and negligence of thought, The charming play is writ, and fringe is wrought.
Página 36 - Gods, Achilles ; and on me With Pity look, think you your Father fee; Such as I am, he is; alone in this, I can no Equal have in...
Página 22 - Of bafer Brafs, the next denotes the Times, An impious Page deform'd with deadly Crimes. The Fourth yet wears a worfe and browner Face, And adds to Gloomy Days an Iron Race. He turns the Book, and ev'ry Age reviews, Then all the Kingly Line his Eye purfues: The Firft of Men, and Lords of Earth defign'd, Who under him fhould rule the reft of Human-kind.