A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Band 1 |
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Thus we at once solicit sense , And charge them not to break the fence . Now , if
untir ' d , consider friend , What I avoid to gain my end . I never am at Meeting
seen , Meeting , that region of the Spleen ; The broken heart , the busy fiend , The
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Thus we at once solicit sense , And charge them not to break the fence . Now , if
untir ' d , consider friend , What I avoid to gain my end . I never am at Meeting
seen , Meeting , that region of the Spleen ; The broken heart , the busy fiend , The
...
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A transient calm the happy scenes bestow , And for a moment lull the sense of
woe . At length awaking with contemptuous frown , Indignant THALES eyes the
neighb ' ring town . Since worth , he cries , in these degen ' rate days Wants ev ' n
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A transient calm the happy scenes bestow , And for a moment lull the sense of
woe . At length awaking with contemptuous frown , Indignant THALES eyes the
neighb ' ring town . Since worth , he cries , in these degen ' rate days Wants ev ' n
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... quam pravo vivere nafo , Spectandum nigris oculis nigroque capillo . Sooner
Sooner than thus my want of sense expose , I ( 296 )
... quam pravo vivere nafo , Spectandum nigris oculis nigroque capillo . Sooner
Sooner than thus my want of sense expose , I ( 296 )
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Sooner than thus my want of sense expose , I ' ll deck out bandy - legs with gold -
clock ' d hose , Or wear a toupet - wig without a nose . Nay , I would sooner have
thy phyz , I swear , Surintendant des plaisirs d ' Angleterre * . Ye weekly writers ...
Sooner than thus my want of sense expose , I ' ll deck out bandy - legs with gold -
clock ' d hose , Or wear a toupet - wig without a nose . Nay , I would sooner have
thy phyz , I swear , Surintendant des plaisirs d ' Angleterre * . Ye weekly writers ...
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Unless you talk good English , downright sense , Can you be understood by
ferjeant Spence ? " New stories always should with truth agree , Or truth ' s half
sister , probability : . : . Scarce could Toft ' s rabbits and pretended throes On half
the ...
Unless you talk good English , downright sense , Can you be understood by
ferjeant Spence ? " New stories always should with truth agree , Or truth ' s half
sister , probability : . : . Scarce could Toft ' s rabbits and pretended throes On half
the ...
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appear arms bear beauty beneath blood breaſt charms court crowd death dreadful eyes face fair fall fame fate fear fields fire firſt flow foes give grace grave half hand head hear heart heav'n hill honour hope hour joys juſt kings land laws leave leſs light live look mind moſt move Muſe muſt nature never night o'er once pain paſſion peace plain play pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe pride proud Queen rage raiſe reign riſe roll round ſcene ſecret ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmile ſome ſoul ſpeak ſtands ſtate ſtill ſuch ſweet tears thee theſe things thoſe thou thought thouſand true truth turn uſe vain virtue whoſe wild wind youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 260 - While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprize...
Seite 30 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Seite 215 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.
Seite 231 - Grongar Hill Silent nymph! with curious eye Who the purple evening lie On the mountain's lonely van Beyond the noise of busy man, Painting fair the form of things...
Seite 209 - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Seite 261 - ... green, On which the tribe their gambols do display ; And at the door...
Seite 217 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Seite 131 - To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling-green ; Some, hilly walks ; all, exercise ; Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Monkeys have been Extreme good doctors for the Spleen ; And kitten, if the humour hit, Has harlequin'd away the fit.
Seite 234 - That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now th...
Seite 265 - On thee she calls, on thee her parent dear! . . (Ah ! too remote to ward the shameful blow!) She sees no kind domestic visage near, And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Band 1 A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Robert Dodsley |
| Autor/in | Robert Dodsley |
| Verlag | J. Hughs, 1765 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 4. Okt. 2006 |
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