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... fortune for a compliment in a couplet , since even at this day he contrives to raise a certain interest in Ralph , Welsted , and Concanen , the grubs , and straws , and worms , ' who have been preserved in the amber ' of his verse ...
... fortune for a compliment in a couplet , since even at this day he contrives to raise a certain interest in Ralph , Welsted , and Concanen , the grubs , and straws , and worms , ' who have been preserved in the amber ' of his verse ...
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... Fortune to repent . On the other hand , the account which Tacitus gives of his unselfish behaviour on the eve of his suicide ( Hist . ii . 48 , 49 ) indicates that his general character had been really ele- vated by the change in his ...
... Fortune to repent . On the other hand , the account which Tacitus gives of his unselfish behaviour on the eve of his suicide ( Hist . ii . 48 , 49 ) indicates that his general character had been really ele- vated by the change in his ...
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... fortune or a mistress frowns , Some plunge in bus'ness , others shave their crowns : 2 To ease the soul of one oppressive weight , This quits an empire , that embroils a state : The same adust complexion has impelled Charles to the ...
... fortune or a mistress frowns , Some plunge in bus'ness , others shave their crowns : 2 To ease the soul of one oppressive weight , This quits an empire , that embroils a state : The same adust complexion has impelled Charles to the ...
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... fortunes , humours turn with climes , Tenets with books , and principles with times.3 160 165 170 6 III . Search then the ruling passion : there , alone , The wild are constant , and the cunning known ; The fool consistent , and the ...
... fortunes , humours turn with climes , Tenets with books , and principles with times.3 160 165 170 6 III . Search then the ruling passion : there , alone , The wild are constant , and the cunning known ; The fool consistent , and the ...
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... fortune shall prolong ? In vain his consort bribes for venal song . No son , nor grandson , shall the line sustain , The husband toils , the Adulterer sweats in vain : In vain a nation's zeal , a senate's cares . " Madness and Lust ...
... fortune shall prolong ? In vain his consort bribes for venal song . No son , nor grandson , shall the line sustain , The husband toils , the Adulterer sweats in vain : In vain a nation's zeal , a senate's cares . " Madness and Lust ...
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Page 254 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; "Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 537 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 151 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter...
Page 119 - Let no man say when he is tempted ; I am tempted of God ; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed : then, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin ; and sin, .when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Page 255 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 353 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool. But let them own, that greater faults than we They had, and greater virtues, I '11 agree.
Page 69 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Page 263 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys; So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 296 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 178 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.