Miscellaneous Correspondence, Band 2W. Owen., 1759 Containing a variety of subjects, relative to natural and civil history, geography, mathematics, poetry, memoirs of monthly occurrences, catalogues of new books, &c... |
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Seite 700 - Not, Celia, that I juster am, Or better than the rest; For I would change each hour like them Were not my heart at rest. But I am tied to very thee, By every thought I have; Thy face I only care to see, Thy heart I only crave. All that in woman is adored In thy dear self I find; ™ For the whole sex can but afford The handsome and the kind. Why then should I seek further store And still make love anew? When change itself can give no more, * 'Tis easy to be true.
Seite 478 - An Act to prohibit for a limited time the exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, Malt, Flour, Bread, Biscuit...
Seite 637 - Upon account, to enable his majefty to defray any extraordinary expences of the war, incurred, or to be incurred, for the fervice of...
Seite 513 - These were his words ; void of delusive art I felt them ; for he spoke them from his heart. Nor will I now attempt with witty folly To chase away celestial melancholy...
Seite 451 - Yet tho' we fhudder at their deeds, Ev'n Nero charms us here. VIII. Thus did the blooming Titus look, Delight of human kind ; Great Hadrian thus, whofe death befpoke His firm yet gentle mind. IX. Aurelius too ! thy ftoic face Indignant we compare With young Fauftina's wanton grace, And meretricious air.
Seite 875 - I've lost — alas! I've lost my way." Mov'd with this little tale of fate, I took a lamp, and op'd the gate; When see ! a naked boy before The threshold ; at his back he wore A pair of wings, and by his side A crooked bow and quiver ty'd. " My pretty angel ! come," said I, " Come to the fire, and do not cry...
Seite 498 - An Act to continue for a further time the prohibition of the making of low wines and spirits from wheat, barley, malt, or any other sort...
Seite 497 - He was drefTed in a light-grey coat, white waiftcoat, and white flocking*, and a large white wig, and had in each hand a white handkerchief. He threw his hat on the deck, kneeled on a...
Seite 558 - Byng ; nor any greater reinforcement than the regiment which was sent, and the detachment, equal to a battalion, which was ordered to the relief of Fort St. Philip...
Seite 756 - No glory I covet, no riches I want, Ambition is nothing to me ; The one thing I beg of kind heaven to grant, Is a mind independent and free.