A Select Collection of Poems:: With Notes, Biographical and Historical, Том 3

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John Nichols
J. Nichols, 1780
 

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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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!
Страница 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
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.

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