Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2C. Dilly, 1791 - English poetry |
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Page 110
... comes not : his Numidian genius Is well difpos'd to mifchief , were he prompt And eager on it ; but he must be fpurr'd , And ev'ry moment quicken'd to the course . -Cato has us'd me ill : he has refus'd His daughter Marcia to my ardent ...
... comes not : his Numidian genius Is well difpos'd to mifchief , were he prompt And eager on it ; but he must be fpurr'd , And ev'ry moment quicken'd to the course . -Cato has us'd me ill : he has refus'd His daughter Marcia to my ardent ...
Page 135
... comes , the beauteous Phædra comes . Enter Phedra and four Ladies . How her eyes fparkle ! how their radiant beams Confels their fhining ancestor the fun ! Your charms to - day will wound defpairing crowds , [ litus , And give the pains ...
... comes , the beauteous Phædra comes . Enter Phedra and four Ladies . How her eyes fparkle ! how their radiant beams Confels their fhining ancestor the fun ! Your charms to - day will wound defpairing crowds , [ litus , And give the pains ...
Page 341
... comes to my heart with a twang , twang , And it comes to my heart with a twang . I am a rock to the handsome and pretty , Can only be touch'd by the witty ; And beauty will ogle in vain : The way to my heart's thro ' my brain . Let all ...
... comes to my heart with a twang , twang , And it comes to my heart with a twang . I am a rock to the handsome and pretty , Can only be touch'd by the witty ; And beauty will ogle in vain : The way to my heart's thro ' my brain . Let all ...
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