FablesHenry Skelton, 1816 - 193 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
address'd applause bear beasts beauty Beggar's Opera beneath bird blockhead boast bosom bus'ness clown conceit court courtiers Coxcombs creature cries crowd cry'd curs'd daily dare disgrac'd disgrace DUKE OF CUMBERLAND e'er employ'd envy Ev'n ev'ry eyes fable fame fate fav'rite favour fear feast flatt'ry flies flow'r fool friends gain gen'ral grew hand hate hath heard heart heav'n hoards honest honour hound hour int'rest JOHN GAY Jove kind kings knaves knew Lion lord mankind Mastiff merit mind ministers ne'er never o'er plain Plutus pow'r praise prey pride princess of Wales Proteus race rais'd RAT-CATCHER replies reply'd reward says scorn self-convicted sires Snail spleen spoke Squire stept supply'd Swift sycophants taste thee Think thou thought toil tongue trade train truth Turkey Twas vex'd vice virtue Wasp weigh'd what's Whene'er wise
Pasajes populares
Página 1 - REMOTE from cities liv'da swain, ./ . Unvex'd with all the cares of gain: /(', " His head was silver'd o'er with age, And long experience made him sage; In summer's heat and winter's cold, He fed his flock and penn'd the fold...
Página 128 - Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame. The child, whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known a father's care.
Página 130 - She now the trotting Calf addressed, To save from death a friend distressed. Shall I, says he, of tender age, In this important care engage? Older and abler passed you by; How strong are those, how weak am I! Should I presume to bear you hence, Those friends of mine may take offence.
Página ix - This was a good while before the first act was over, and so gave us ease soon ; for that Duke (besides his own good taste) has a particular knack, as any one now living, in discovering the taste of the public. He was quite right in this, as usual ; the good nature of the audience appeared stronger and stronger every act, and ended in a clamour of applause...
Página 50 - To bloom restor'd the faded maid ; He gave each muscle all its strength ; The mouth, the chin, the nose's length ; His honest pencil touch'd with truth, And mark'd the date of age and youth. He lost his friends, his practice fail'd ; Truth should not always be reveal'd : In dusty piles his pictures lay, For no one sent the second pay. Two bustos, fraught with every grace, A Venus...
Página 128 - And from the deep-mouth'd thunder flies: She starts, she stops, she pants for breath ; She hears the near advance of death ; She doubles to mislead the hound, And measures back her mazy round, Till, fainting in the public way, Half-dead with fear she gasping lay. What transport in her bosom grew, When first the Horse appear'd in view ! ' Let me, (says she) your back ascend, And owe my safety to a friend.
Página viii - He began on it, and when he first mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us; and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing.
Página ix - Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England ; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Página 6 - Discern you generous, mild, and kind; They see you grieve to hear distress, And pant already to redress. Go on, the height of good attain, Nor let a nation hope in vain: For hence we justly may presage The virtues of a riper age. True courage shall your bosom fire, And future actions own your sire. Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
Página 175 - Some the swift-sliding shuttle throw ; Some, studious of the wind and tide, From pole to pole our commerce guide ; Some (taught by Industry) impart With hands and feet the works of art ; While some, of genius more refined, With head and tongue assist mankind. Each aiming at one common end, Proves to the whole a needful friend.