The Diarian Miscellany: Consisting of All the Useful and Entertaining Parts, Both Mathematical and Poetical, Extracted from the Ladies' Diary, from the Beginning of that Work in the Year 1704, Down to the End of the Year 1773. With Many Additional Solutions and Improvements, Volum 4

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G. Robinson and R. Baldwin, 1775
 

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Pàgina 14 - Ohy woman! lovely woman! nature made thee .To temper man : we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you : There's in you all that we believe of Heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Pàgina 240 - Appease their rage, invite them to the hive, Unite their force, and teach them how to thrive : To rob the flowers, and to forbear the spoil...
Pàgina 169 - CRISPIS. Nee vir, nee mulier, nee androgyna, Nee puella, nee juvenis, nee anus, Nee casta, nee meretrix, nee pudica, Sed omnia ! Sublata...
Pàgina 228 - I'm now encreas'd in Strength, and Bulk, and Height; I can now raife my Hand above my Head; And now, at laft, I by my felf am fed.
Pàgina 130 - ... hard Gain'd but one trump and one plebeian card. With his broad sabre next, a chief in years, The hoary majesty of Spades appears, Puts forth one manly leg, to sight reveal'd, The rest, his many-colour'd robe conceal'd.
Pàgina 49 - She that pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers When they rake not up their embers : But if so they chance to feast her, In a shoe she drops a tester.
Pàgina 62 - Ere Adam was, my early days began; I ape each creature, and resemble man; I gently creep o'er tops of tender grass, Nor leave the least impression where I pass; Touch me you may, but I can ne'er be felt, Nor ever yet was tasted, heard, or smelt, lYet seen each day; if not, be sure at night You'll quickly find me out by candlelight.
Pàgina 63 - We have got tongues and eyes in vain And truth from us is sin. Men to new joys and conquests fly, And yet no hazard run; Poor we are left if we deny, And if we yield, undone. Then equal laws let custom find, And neither Sex oppress; More freedom give to Womankind Or give to Mankind less.
Pàgina 48 - Children like tender osiers take the bow, And as they first are fashion'd, always grow, For what we learn in youth, to that alone In age, we are by second nature, prone.
Pàgina 78 - That cordial-drop heaven in our cup has thrown, To make the naufeous draught of life go down ; On which one only bleffing God might raife, In lands of Atheifts...

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