Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poemsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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... half - alive , oppress'd with many a year , What in the name of dotage drives me here ? A time there was , when glory was my guide , Nor force nor fraud could turn my steps aside ; Unaw'd by power , and unappall'd by fear , With honest ...
... half - alive , oppress'd with many a year , What in the name of dotage drives me here ? A time there was , when glory was my guide , Nor force nor fraud could turn my steps aside ; Unaw'd by power , and unappall'd by fear , With honest ...
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... half the charms that deck'd her face Arose from powder , shreds , or lace ; But still the worst remain'd behind , That very face had robb'd her mind . Skill'd in no other arts was she , But dressing , patching , repartee ; And , just as ...
... half the charms that deck'd her face Arose from powder , shreds , or lace ; But still the worst remain'd behind , That very face had robb'd her mind . Skill'd in no other arts was she , But dressing , patching , repartee ; And , just as ...
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... Half naked at a ball or race ; But when at home , at board or bed , Five greasy night - caps wrapp'd her head . Could so much beauty condescend To be a dull domestic friend ? Could any curtain lectures bring To decency so fine a thing ...
... Half naked at a ball or race ; But when at home , at board or bed , Five greasy night - caps wrapp'd her head . Could so much beauty condescend To be a dull domestic friend ? Could any curtain lectures bring To decency so fine a thing ...
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... half so good ; For let folks only get a touch , Its soporific virtue ' s such , Though ne'er so much awake before , That quickly they begin to snore . Add too , what certain writers tell , With this he drives men's souls to hell . Now ...
... half so good ; For let folks only get a touch , Its soporific virtue ' s such , Though ne'er so much awake before , That quickly they begin to snore . Add too , what certain writers tell , With this he drives men's souls to hell . Now ...
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... appetite with calumny , makes , ever after , the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputation . Such readers generally admire some half - witted thing , who wants to be wise one . thought a bold man , having lost 34 DEDICATION .
... appetite with calumny , makes , ever after , the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputation . Such readers generally admire some half - witted thing , who wants to be wise one . thought a bold man , having lost 34 DEDICATION .
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Page 113 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 73 - Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all — her friends, her virtue fled — Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...
Page 70 - To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested...
Page 45 - That first excites desire, and then supplies. Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, \ Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame : Their level life is but a...
Page 65 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Page 66 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Page 49 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 71 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells...
Page 38 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his fo6d, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Page 107 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade f Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...