 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1758 - 478 pages
...B 2 perhaps, perhaps, wear an appearance too contem* ptible to excite defire : • Weary d wefoould lie down in death, * This cheat of life would take...PRIOR. • In a word, this enthufiafm for which I am pleadiing, is a beneficent enchantrefs, who never exerts her magic but to our advantage, and only deals... | |
 | William Melmoth - English prose literature - 1758 - 474 pages
...objects of our purfuit ; if fancy did not give them their brighteft colors, they would generally, • B a perhaps, perhaps, wear an appearance too contemptible...in death, This cheat of life -would take no more, Jf you thought fame an empty breath, I Phillis but a perjur'd whore. PRIOR. In a word, this enthufiafm... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 316 pages
...From ignorance oxir comfort flows : The only wretched are the wife. 5 . X. We 4» X. We wearied Qiould lie down in death : This cheat of life would take no more, If you thought fame but empty breath, I, Philliibuta perjur'd wbore. cum Thefes de Iftero pro G'radu Do&oris. defenderet,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 478 pages
...have eyes ? From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wife. X. We weary'd mould lye down in death : This cheat of life would take no more ; If you thought fame but empty breath ; I, Phillis but a perjur'd whore. HYMN TO THE SUN. SET BY DR. PURGE L. AND INTENDED... | |
 | John Nichols - English poetry - 1780 - 434 pages
...eyes? From -ignorance our comfert flows,, •/ The only wretched are tie *,f'e, ,,; We wearied fliottKl lie down in death, This cheat of life would take no more ; If you thought fame but ftinking breath, And Phjllis but a perjur'd whore. * See the five firft flanzas of this poem in... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...it to have eyes ? From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wife. We wearied mould lie down in death, This cheat of life would take no more; If you theught fame but flinking breath, And Phyllis but a perjur'd whore. AD V1RUM DOCTISSIMUM DOMINUM SAMUELEM... | |
 | English poetry - 1797 - 454 pages
...have eyes ? From ignorance our comfort flows : The only wretched are the wise. x. We weary'd should lie down in death : This cheat of life would take no more, If you thought fame but empty breath, I Phillu but a perjur'd whore. TO DR. SHERLOCK, On Ms Practical DISCOURSE CONCERNING... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 520 pages
...to have eyes ? From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. We wearied should lie down in death, This cheat of life would take no more; TO DR. SHERLOCK, On his Practical Discourse concerning Death. ToRcn'E the Muse, who, in nnhallow'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...have eyes •? From ignorance our comfort flows : The only wretched are the wise. We wearied should lie down in death : This cheat of life would take no more, If you thought fame but empty breath, I, Phillis but a perjur'd whore. TARIATIONJ lit A COPY, PRINTED 1695. Oil. hopes,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...ignorance our comfort flows : The only wretched are the wise, WP wearied should lie down in death i This cheat of life would take no more, If you thought fame but empty breath, I, PhillU but a perjur'd whore. VARIATION« IN A COPY, PRINTED 1692, Ou» hopes,... | |
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If we see right, we see our woes: Then what avails it to have eyes? From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise. We wearied should lie down in death: This cheat of life would take no more; If you thought fame but empty breath; I,... 
