Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 pages |
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Page 34
... heart , Fop at the toilet , flatt'rer at the board , Now trips a lady , and now struts a lord . Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have exprest , A cherub's face , a reptile all the rest . Beauty that shocks you , parts that none will trust ...
... heart , Fop at the toilet , flatt'rer at the board , Now trips a lady , and now struts a lord . Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have exprest , A cherub's face , a reptile all the rest . Beauty that shocks you , parts that none will trust ...
Page 69
... heart . Let Ireland tell , how wit upheld her cause , Her trade supported , and supplied her laws ; And leave on Swift this grateful verse ingrav'd , The rights a court attack'd , a poet sav'd . ' Behold the hand that wrought a nation's ...
... heart . Let Ireland tell , how wit upheld her cause , Her trade supported , and supplied her laws ; And leave on Swift this grateful verse ingrav'd , The rights a court attack'd , a poet sav'd . ' Behold the hand that wrought a nation's ...
Page 83
... heart resolves this matter in a trice , ' Men only feel the smart , but not the vice . ' When golden angels cease to cure the evil , You give all royal witchcraft to the devil : When servile chaplains cry , that birth and place Indue a ...
... heart resolves this matter in a trice , ' Men only feel the smart , but not the vice . ' When golden angels cease to cure the evil , You give all royal witchcraft to the devil : When servile chaplains cry , that birth and place Indue a ...
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