A Select Collection of Poems:: With Notes, Biographical and Historical, Volumen3John Nichols J. Nichols, 1780 |
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Página 205 - LOVE IN DISGUISE. To stifle passion, is no easy thing; A heart in love is always on the wing; The bold betrayer flutters still, And fans the breath prepar'd to tell : It melts the tongue, and tunes the throat, And moves the lips to form the note; And when the speech is lost, It then sends out its ghost, A little sigh. To say we die.
Página 71 - Twill make a pudding far exceeding rice; And you may fafely feed on it like farmers, For the receipt is learned Dr. Harmer's.
Página 103 - Bitter, oh tell me whence comes my content ? Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain, Or grieve at my Fate, when I know 'tis in vain...
Página 218 - Fair hope displays its pinions to the wind, And flutters in the lines, and lifts the mind. Brisk joy with transport fills the rising strain, Breaks in the notes, and bounds in every vein. Stern courage, glittering in the sparks of ire, Inflames those lays that set...
Página 213 - Ye sacred Virgins, in my thoughts ador'd, Ah, be for ever in my lines deplor'd, If tricks on words acquire an endless name, And trifles merit in the court of Fame!
Página 162 - Till fome wife ftatefman into method draws The parts, and animates the frame with laws ; Such was the cafe when Chaucer's early toil Founded the Mufes
Página 225 - I've seen the book forsake the virgin's hand, And in her eyes the tears but hardly stand. 480 I've known her blush at soft Corinna's name, And in red characters confess a flame: Or wish success had more adorn'd his arms, Who gave the world for Cleopatra's charms. Ye Sons of Glory, be my first appeal, If here the power of lines these lines reveal.
Página 164 - Or a fit offering to her altars bring ? In joys, in grief, in triumphs, in retreat, Great always, without aiming to be great.. True Roman majefty adorns her face ; And every gefture 's form'd by every Grace.
Página 215 - In which weak Nature dresses here below, Stands the great palace of the Bright and Fine, Where fair ideas in full glory shine ; Eternal models of exalted parts, The pride of minds, and conquerors of hearts. " Upon the first arrival here, are seen...
Página 270 - Politics," in order to fatirize and expofe the whigs. This comedy was by many intrigues of the partymen hindered from appearing upon the ftage, till the king himfelf laid his abfolute commands on the lord chamberlain to have it acted immediately.