Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 pages |
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Page 50
... keep me from myself ; and still delay Life's instant business to a future day : That task , which as we follow , or despise , The eldest is a fool , the youngest wise : Which done , the poorest can no wants endure ; And which not done ...
... keep me from myself ; and still delay Life's instant business to a future day : That task , which as we follow , or despise , The eldest is a fool , the youngest wise : Which done , the poorest can no wants endure ; And which not done ...
Page 53
... keep assemblies , and would keep the stews ; Some with fat bucks on childless dotards fawn ; Some win rich widows by their chine and brawn ; While with the silent growth of ten per cent , In dirt and darkness , hundreds stink content ...
... keep assemblies , and would keep the stews ; Some with fat bucks on childless dotards fawn ; Some win rich widows by their chine and brawn ; While with the silent growth of ten per cent , In dirt and darkness , hundreds stink content ...
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... keep the equal measure of my soul . The contrast intended seems to be that between the staid sobriety of prose , and the afflatus of the poet , which hurries him he knows not whither . But if so , the couplet , I'll e'en leave verses to ...
... keep the equal measure of my soul . The contrast intended seems to be that between the staid sobriety of prose , and the afflatus of the poet , which hurries him he knows not whither . But if so , the couplet , I'll e'en leave verses to ...
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