Miscellany poems. By mr. Pope (By several hands). |
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... or widows weep , The tender lettuce brings no fofter fleep : Eat beef or pye - cruft , if you'd ferious be 3 . Your fhell - fish raifes Venus from the fea : A 5 For For nature that inclines to ill or good , Still The ART of COOKERY . 11.
... or widows weep , The tender lettuce brings no fofter fleep : Eat beef or pye - cruft , if you'd ferious be 3 . Your fhell - fish raifes Venus from the fea : A 5 For For nature that inclines to ill or good , Still The ART of COOKERY . 11.
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... , And that alone , wou'd it not move your spleen ? ' Tis true , in a long work foft flumbers And gently fink the artist into fleep . creep , } Ev'n Lamb himself , at the most folemn feaft , Ev'a 24 The ART of COOKERY .
... , And that alone , wou'd it not move your spleen ? ' Tis true , in a long work foft flumbers And gently fink the artist into fleep . creep , } Ev'n Lamb himself , at the most folemn feaft , Ev'a 24 The ART of COOKERY .
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... fleep reign in that precedent night , Whofe joyful hours lead on the glorious light , Sacred to British worth in Blenheim's fight . The bleffings of good fortune feem refus'd , Unless fometimes with gen'rous freedom us'd . Tis madness ...
... fleep reign in that precedent night , Whofe joyful hours lead on the glorious light , Sacred to British worth in Blenheim's fight . The bleffings of good fortune feem refus'd , Unless fometimes with gen'rous freedom us'd . Tis madness ...
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... fleep prepare . In comes the family , but he fits ftill , Thinks , let them take the other chairs that will . The mafter thus accosts him , " Sir , you're wet Pray have a cushion underneath your feet . Thinks he , if I do fpoil it ...
... fleep prepare . In comes the family , but he fits ftill , Thinks , let them take the other chairs that will . The mafter thus accosts him , " Sir , you're wet Pray have a cushion underneath your feet . Thinks he , if I do fpoil it ...
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... fleep , he fays , I'll up and dance , while this choice mufick plays . He cries , What means my brother ? I mean to steal into the daughter's bed . } Allen faid , ' Tis " Tis faid , the man who in one point The MILLER of Trompington . 97 .
... fleep , he fays , I'll up and dance , while this choice mufick plays . He cries , What means my brother ? I mean to steal into the daughter's bed . } Allen faid , ' Tis " Tis faid , the man who in one point The MILLER of Trompington . 97 .
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Page 197 - To find if books, or swains, report it right (For yet by swains alone the world he knew...
Page 204 - The Maker justly claims that world he made, In this the right of Providence is laid; Its sacred majesty through all depends On using second means to work his ends...
Page 198 - And hail, my son," the reverend sire replied ; Words follow'd words, from question answer flow'd, And talk of various kind deceiv'd the road ; Till each with other pleas'd, and loth to part, While in their age they differ, join in heart : Thus stands an aged elm in ivy bound, Thus youthful ivy clasps an elm around.
Page 205 - With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver...
Page 203 - His robe turn'd white, and flow'd upon his feet ; Fair rounds of radiant points...
Page 200 - Unkind and griping, caus'da desert there. As near the miser's heavy doors they drew, Fierce rising gusts with sudden fury blew ; The nimble lightning mix'd with showers began, And o'er their heads loud rolling thunder ran.
Page 196 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 219 - SONG. WHEN thy beauty appears, In its graces and airs, All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky ; At distance I gaze, and am aw'd by my fears, So strangely you dazzle my eye ! But when without art, Your kind thoughts you impart, When your love runs in blushes through every vein; When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart, Then I know you're a woman again. There's a passion and pride In our sex...
Page 198 - The table groans with costly piles of food, And all Is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day Along the wide canals the zephyrs play ; Fresh o'er the gay parterres the breezes creep.
Page 210 - For which, an eloquence, that aims to vex, With native tropes of anger, arms the sex.