Poems Upon Several Occasions: With The British Enchanters, a Dramatick Poem. By the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Landsdowne [sic]. Lately Revis'd and Enlarg'd by the Author, Ausgabe 593S. Powell, 1732 - 166 Seiten |
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Seite 37 - So sweet's the charm, we make our fate our choice. Who most resembles her let next be nam'd, Villiers*, for wisdom and deep judgment fam'd, Of a high race, victorious Beauty brings To grace our courts, and captivate our kings.
Seite 90 - At vaft expence we labour to our ruin, And court your favour with our own undoing; A war of profit mitigates the evil, But to be tax'd-— and beaten— is the devil. How was...
Seite 58 - Mistake me not : no figures I exclude, And but forbid intemperance, not food. Who would with care...
Seite 53 - How, and with whom, the very Birds proclaim * Her black Pollution, and reveal my Shame. Hard Lot of Beauty! fatally beftow'd, Or given to the Falfe, or to the Proud ; By fev'ral Ways they bring us equal Pain, '• The Falfe betray us, and the Proud difdain.
Seite 60 - Become not parties in an impious deed : And by the tyrant's murder, we may find That Cato and the gods were of a mind. Thus forcing truth with...
Seite 91 - Earefàc'd devours, in gaudy colours deck'd; Then in a vizard, to avoid grimace, Allows all freedom, but to see the face. In pulpits and at bar she wears a gown, In camps a sword, in palaces a crown.
Seite 68 - Haste to Clarinda, and reveal Whatever pains poor lovers feel ; When that is done, then tell the fair That I endure much more for her : Who'd truly know Love's power or smart, Must view her eyes, and read my heart.
Seite 4 - Those radiant eyes, whose irresistless flame Strikes Envy dumb, and keeps Sedition tame : They can to gazing multitudes give law, Convert the factious, and the rebel awe ; They conquer for the duke ; where-e'er you tread, Millions of proselytes, behind are led ; Through crowds of new-made converts still you go, Pleas'd and triumphant at the glorious show.
Seite 15 - Tigers and wolves shall in the ocean breed, The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead, And every element exchange its kind, Ere thriving Honesty in courts we find.
Seite 18 - The painter must have search'd the skies, To match the lustre of her eyes. Comparing then,, while thus we view The ancient Venus, and the new ; In her we many mortals see, As many goddesses in thee.