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 10
... tongue proves dainty Bacchus grofs in For valour , is not love a Hercules , [ tafte . Still climbing trees in the ... Tongues . The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen . As is the razor's edge invitible , Cutting a smaller hair than ...
... tongue proves dainty Bacchus grofs in For valour , is not love a Hercules , [ tafte . Still climbing trees in the ... Tongues . The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen . As is the razor's edge invitible , Cutting a smaller hair than ...
Page 62
... tongue's continual flanders ride , The which in every language I pronounce ; Stuffing the ears of men with falfe reports . I fpeak of peace , while covert enmity , Under the fmile of fafety , wounds the world ; And who but Rumour , who ...
... tongue's continual flanders ride , The which in every language I pronounce ; Stuffing the ears of men with falfe reports . I fpeak of peace , while covert enmity , Under the fmile of fafety , wounds the world ; And who but Rumour , who ...
Page 257
... tongue's more killing than your eyes . Your tongue's a traitor to your face , Your fame's by your own noife obfcur'd ; All are distracted while they gaze , But , if they liften , they are cur'd . Your filence would acquire more praise ...
... tongue's more killing than your eyes . Your tongue's a traitor to your face , Your fame's by your own noife obfcur'd ; All are distracted while they gaze , But , if they liften , they are cur'd . Your filence would acquire more praise ...
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