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... church is free , Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath - day to me : Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme , Happy to catch me , just at dinner - time . Is there a parson , much be - mus'd in beer , A maudlin poetess , a rhyming peer ...
... church is free , Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath - day to me : Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme , Happy to catch me , just at dinner - time . Is there a parson , much be - mus'd in beer , A maudlin poetess , a rhyming peer ...
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... Church , or guardians of the laws ? Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest strain Flatt'rers and bigots ev'n in Louis ' reign ? Could Laureate Dryden pimp and fry'r engage , Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage ? And I not strip ...
... Church , or guardians of the laws ? Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest strain Flatt'rers and bigots ev'n in Louis ' reign ? Could Laureate Dryden pimp and fry'r engage , Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage ? And I not strip ...
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... churches round thee fall ? Make keys , build bridges , or repair White - hall : Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind , Prepares a dreadful ...
... churches round thee fall ? Make keys , build bridges , or repair White - hall : Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind , Prepares a dreadful ...
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... Church alike disowns , 60 Thinks that but words , and this but brick and stones ? Fly then , on all the wings of wild desire , Admire whate'er the maddest can admire : Is wealth thy passion ? Hence ! from pole to pole , Where winds can ...
... Church alike disowns , 60 Thinks that but words , and this but brick and stones ? Fly then , on all the wings of wild desire , Admire whate'er the maddest can admire : Is wealth thy passion ? Hence ! from pole to pole , Where winds can ...
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... Church and State ; Now for prerogative , and now for laws ; Effects unhappy ! from a noble cause . Time was , a sober Englishman wou'd knock His servants up , and rise by five o'clock , Instruct his family in ev'ry rule , And send his ...
... Church and State ; Now for prerogative , and now for laws ; Effects unhappy ! from a noble cause . Time was , a sober Englishman wou'd knock His servants up , and rise by five o'clock , Instruct his family in ev'ry rule , And send his ...
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Page 30 - 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 33 - 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 30 - 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 52 - Who counsels best ? who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Page 145 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 27 - Say, for my comfort, languishing in bed, 'Just so immortal Maro held his head'; And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 144 - whispers through the trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep": Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 29 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 28 - Commas and points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite.
Page 64 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.