Shaksperian Sketches: By James Wallace, ...Hookham and Carpenter, 1795 - 92 pages |
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Page 33 - The tender leaves of hope ; to morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, nips his root, And then he falls — as I do.
Page 28 - Canft thou not minifter to a mind difeas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted forrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with fome fweet oblivious antidote, Cleanfe the ftuff'd bofom of that perilous ftuff. Which weighs upon the heart ? DOCT.
Page 33 - And bears his blufhing honours thick upon him, The third day comes a froft, a killing froft, And when he thinks, good eafy man, full furely His greatnefs is a ripening, 4 nips his root ; And then he falls, as I do.
Page 45 - And keep his only fon, myfelf at home. For I had heard of battles, and I long'd To follow to the field fome warlike lord ; And Heaven foon granted what my fire denied. This moon which rofe...
Page ii - Soeak of them as they are ; nothing extenuate Nor fet down aught in Malice.