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Delightful Abs - court , if its fields afford Their fruits to you , confesses you its lord :
All * Worldly's hens , nay , partridge , sold to town . His Ven'son too , a guinea
makes your own : 235 He bought at thousands , what with better wit You
purchase ...
Delightful Abs - court , if its fields afford Their fruits to you , confesses you its lord :
All * Worldly's hens , nay , partridge , sold to town . His Ven'son too , a guinea
makes your own : 235 He bought at thousands , what with better wit You
purchase ...
Seite 194
My mind , neither with pride's itch , nor hath been Poyson'd with love to fee or to
be seen , I had no suit there , nor new fuit to show , Yet went to Court ; but as
Glare which did go To.Mass in jest , catch'd , was fain to disburse Two hundred ...
My mind , neither with pride's itch , nor hath been Poyson'd with love to fee or to
be seen , I had no suit there , nor new fuit to show , Yet went to Court ; but as
Glare which did go To.Mass in jest , catch'd , was fain to disburse Two hundred ...
Seite 208
But he is gone , thanks to his needy want , And the Prerogative of my Crown ;
fcant His thanks were ended , when I ( which did see All the Court filld with more
strange things than he ) Ran from thence with such , or more haft than one Who ...
But he is gone , thanks to his needy want , And the Prerogative of my Crown ;
fcant His thanks were ended , when I ( which did see All the Court filld with more
strange things than he ) Ran from thence with such , or more haft than one Who ...
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Thou , who fince yesterday haft rollid o'er all The busy , idle blockheads of the
ball , Hast thou , oh Sun ! beheld an emptier fort , Than such as swell this bladder
of a court ? 205 Now pox on those who shew a Court in wax ! It ought to bring all
...
Thou , who fince yesterday haft rollid o'er all The busy , idle blockheads of the
ball , Hast thou , oh Sun ! beheld an emptier fort , Than such as swell this bladder
of a court ? 205 Now pox on those who shew a Court in wax ! It ought to bring all
...
Seite 237
But does the Court a worthy Man remove ? That inftant I declare , he has my Love
: 75 I shun his Zenith , court his mild Decline ; Thus SOMMERS once , and
HALIFAX , were mine . whose personal attachments to the king appeared from
his ...
But does the Court a worthy Man remove ? That inftant I declare , he has my Love
: 75 I shun his Zenith , court his mild Decline ; Thus SOMMERS once , and
HALIFAX , were mine . whose personal attachments to the king appeared from
his ...
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Seite 21 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Seite 12 - 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.
Seite 17 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Seite 49 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Seite 45 - Slander or Poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge be Page.
Seite 17 - And those they left me; for they left me Gay; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and 'tell it on his tomb: Of all thy blameless...
Seite 27 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Seite 182 - Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate Perfectly all this town, yet there's one state In all ill things so excellently best, That hate towards them breeds pity towards the rest.
Seite 6 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Seite 24 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...