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Waller's verses on fickness . Mr. Prior's funeral . X. From the fame . His love of the
country . A paljage in Tully . Of Shakespear , and the publication of Mr. Addison's
works . XI . To the Bishop of Rochester . XII . From the Bishop . On a character ...
Waller's verses on fickness . Mr. Prior's funeral . X. From the fame . His love of the
country . A paljage in Tully . Of Shakespear , and the publication of Mr. Addison's
works . XI . To the Bishop of Rochester . XII . From the Bishop . On a character ...
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Poetically speaking , I should lament the loss Windsor - forest and you sustain of
each other , but that , methinks , one can't say you are parted , because you will
live by and in one another , while verse is verse . This consideration hardens me
...
Poetically speaking , I should lament the loss Windsor - forest and you sustain of
each other , but that , methinks , one can't say you are parted , because you will
live by and in one another , while verse is verse . This consideration hardens me
...
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And thơ your Lordship's reasons for not writing in Latin , might be stronger than
mine for not writing in Verse , yet I may plead Two good ones , for this conduct :
the one that I want the Talent of spinning a thousand lines in a Day + ( which , I ...
And thơ your Lordship's reasons for not writing in Latin , might be stronger than
mine for not writing in Verse , yet I may plead Two good ones , for this conduct :
the one that I want the Talent of spinning a thousand lines in a Day + ( which , I ...
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Did I ever do you so great an injury as to put off my own Verses for yours ,
especially on those Persons whom they might ... one syllable of , or to either of
you ; never hitch'd your names in a Verse , or trifled with your good names in
company .
Did I ever do you so great an injury as to put off my own Verses for yours ,
especially on those Persons whom they might ... one syllable of , or to either of
you ; never hitch'd your names in a Verse , or trifled with your good names in
company .
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In regard to the right honourable Lady , your Lordship's friend , I was far from
designing a person of her condition by a name so derogatory to her , as that of
Sappho ; a name prostituted to every infamous Creature that ever wrote Verses
or ...
In regard to the right honourable Lady , your Lordship's friend , I was far from
designing a person of her condition by a name so derogatory to her , as that of
Sappho ; a name prostituted to every infamous Creature that ever wrote Verses
or ...
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Seite 111 - Parnell is in an ill state of health. " Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way.
Seite 8 - Catechism, as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken. The old man then lay down...
Seite 98 - I look upon you as a spirit entered into another life ', as one just upon the edge of immortality; where the passions and affections must be much more exalted, and where you ought to despise all little views, and all mean retrospects. Nothing is worth your looking back ; and therefore look forward, and make (as you can) the world look after you. But take care that it be not with pity, but with esteem and admiration.
Seite 67 - I faid to you in mine about the Monument, was intended only to quicken, not to alarm you. It is not worth your while to know what I meant by it : but when I fee you, you mall.
Seite 180 - Horace their companion, though he had been in arms on the side of Brutus ; and allow me to remark, it was out of the suffering party too that they favoured and distinguished Virgil.
Seite 26 - ... radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is...
Seite 97 - ... our declining years, the drums and rattles of ambition, and the dirt and bubbles of avarice.
Seite 75 - Spencer ; and I will take care to make good in every respect what I said to him when living ; particularly as to the triplet he wrote for his own epitaph ; which, while we were in good terms, I promised him should never appear on his tomb while I was dean of Westminster.
Seite 97 - Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.