Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose ...T. Longman, 1796 - 1008 Seiten |
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... Sighing like furnace , with a woeful ballad Made to his miftrefs eye - brow . Then , the foldier , Full of ftrange oaths , and bearded like the pard , Jealous in honour , sudden and quick in quarrel , Secking the bubble reputation Even ...
... Sighing like furnace , with a woeful ballad Made to his miftrefs eye - brow . Then , the foldier , Full of ftrange oaths , and bearded like the pard , Jealous in honour , sudden and quick in quarrel , Secking the bubble reputation Even ...
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... Sigh no more , ladies , figh no more , Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in fea , and one on fhore , To one thing conftant never . Then figh not so , But let them go , And be you blith and bonny , Converting all your founds of woe Into ...
... Sigh no more , ladies , figh no more , Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in fea , and one on fhore , To one thing conftant never . Then figh not so , But let them go , And be you blith and bonny , Converting all your founds of woe Into ...
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... Sigh'd truer breath ; but that I fee thee here , Thou noble thing ! more dances my rapt heart , Than when I first my wedded mistress faw Befride my threshold . Why , thou Mars ! I tell thee , We have a power on foot ; and I had purpose ...
... Sigh'd truer breath ; but that I fee thee here , Thou noble thing ! more dances my rapt heart , Than when I first my wedded mistress faw Befride my threshold . Why , thou Mars ! I tell thee , We have a power on foot ; and I had purpose ...
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... Sigh their own wrongs , and beg me to revenge ' em ? What hinders now , but that I mount the throne , And make , befides , this purple youth my footstool ? The armies court me : and my country's caufe , The injuries of Rome and Greece ...
... Sigh their own wrongs , and beg me to revenge ' em ? What hinders now , but that I mount the throne , And make , befides , this purple youth my footstool ? The armies court me : and my country's caufe , The injuries of Rome and Greece ...
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... Sigh to the winds , and rend th ' unpitying heavens With thy vain forrows ; fince relentless Thefeus , Thy hope , thy refuge , Thefeus will not hear thee . Thef . Not hear my Phedra ! not revenge her wrongs ! Speak , make thy proofs ...
... Sigh to the winds , and rend th ' unpitying heavens With thy vain forrows ; fince relentless Thefeus , Thy hope , thy refuge , Thefeus will not hear thee . Thef . Not hear my Phedra ! not revenge her wrongs ! Speak , make thy proofs ...
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Adam Bell bafe beft blefs blood bofom breaft Cæfar Cato caufe charms Childe Waters dear death doft doth elfe ev'ry eyes fafe faid fair falfe fame fate fatire fave fayd fcene fcorn fear feem feen fenfe feven fhade fhall fhew fhould fide figh filk fing firft flain fleep fmile foft fome foon forrow foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftill ftrange fuch fure fweet fword grace grief hand hath hear heart Heaven honour king Lady laft lefs live loft lord lov'd Lycon moft moſt Mufe mufic muft muſt ne'er never night nymph o'er paffion pallion Phad Phædra pleafe pleaſe pleaſure poor pow'r praife quoth reafon reft rife ſpeak ſtate Syphax tears tell thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thoufand thought thro Twas vex'd virtue whofe wife worfe youth
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Seite 715 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Seite 622 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Seite 714 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Seite 548 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 621 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Seite 619 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent...
Seite 620 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Seite 570 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Seite 683 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Seite 548 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.