Poems on Several Occasions..Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's-Head over against Katharine-Street in the Strand, and John Barber upon Lambert Hill., 1718 - 506 pàgines |
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... it . Coming very Young to the Poffeffion of two Plenti- ful Estates , and in an Age when Pleasure was more in Fashion than Bufinefs ; He turned his Parts rather to a Books Books and Converfation , than to Politicks , and what DEDICATION .
... it . Coming very Young to the Poffeffion of two Plenti- ful Estates , and in an Age when Pleasure was more in Fashion than Bufinefs ; He turned his Parts rather to a Books Books and Converfation , than to Politicks , and what DEDICATION .
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... Pleasure of Society , and the Happiness of Life depend : and He exercised them with the great- eft Decency , and best Manners . As good Nature is faid , by a great * Author , to belong more particularly to the ENGLISH , than any other ...
... Pleasure of Society , and the Happiness of Life depend : and He exercised them with the great- eft Decency , and best Manners . As good Nature is faid , by a great * Author , to belong more particularly to the ENGLISH , than any other ...
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... Pleasures find , To combat against Real Cares . II . Fancies and Notions He purfues , Which ne'er had Being but in Thought : Each , like the GRACIAN Artist , woo's The Image He himself has wrought . 1. III . Against III . Against ...
... Pleasures find , To combat against Real Cares . II . Fancies and Notions He purfues , Which ne'er had Being but in Thought : Each , like the GRACIAN Artist , woo's The Image He himself has wrought . 1. III . Against III . Against ...
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... Pleasure of the Game Is from afar to view the Flight . VII . Our anxious Pains We , all the Day , In fearch of what We like , employ : Scorning at Night the worthlefs Prey , We find the Labour gave the Joy . VIII . At Distance thro ' an ...
... Pleasure of the Game Is from afar to view the Flight . VII . Our anxious Pains We , all the Day , In fearch of what We like , employ : Scorning at Night the worthlefs Prey , We find the Labour gave the Joy . VIII . At Distance thro ' an ...
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... beftow . As the folemn Hours advance , Mingled fend into the Dance Many fraught with all the Treasures , Which Thy Eaftern Travel views ; Many Many wing'd with all the Pleasures , Man can ask 28 POEM 8 on feveral OCCASION S.
... beftow . As the folemn Hours advance , Mingled fend into the Dance Many fraught with all the Treasures , Which Thy Eaftern Travel views ; Many Many wing'd with all the Pleasures , Man can ask 28 POEM 8 on feveral OCCASION S.
Frases i termes més freqüents
ABRA againſt ALMA Arms BELGIA blefs bleft Bofom Books Breaft Charms CLOE confefs Courſe crown'd CUPID DÆMON Darts Death Defire deftin'd Delight DICK diff'rent dreft e'er Earth Eſq ev'ry fafe faid fair Fame Fate Fear felf fhall fhould fhow fing firft firſt flain Flame fome Friend ftand ftill fuch fure Grief happy Heart Heav'n Hero himſelf Honorable John juft juſt King laft laſt leaſt lefs loft Lord Love LUCRETIUS Lyre Mafter Maid moſt muft muſt Namur ne'er Numbers Nut-brown Maid Nymph o'er Paffion Pain paſs pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r Praiſe prefent Pride Profe purſue Rage raiſe Reaſon Reft Reverend rifing ſaid Senfe Senſe ſhall Sorrow Soul ſpeak ſtill Thee thefe theſe thofe Thoſe Thou Thought thouſand thro VENUS Verfe Verſe vex'd Virtue whilft whofe Whoſe Wife William Wiſdom Wiſhes wou'd Youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 423 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Pàgina 90 - Pointing, the lovely moralist said : See, friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made. Ah me! the blooming pride of May, And that of beauty are but one: At morn both...
Pàgina 352 - To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.
Pàgina 95 - The god of us verse-men (you know Child) the sun, How after his journeys he sets up his rest : If at morning o'er earth 'tis his fancy to run ; At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast.
Pàgina 465 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Pàgina 465 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Pàgina 22 - IN vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas ! what winds can happy prove, That bear me far from what I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain?
Pàgina 465 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Pàgina 474 - And apter utensils their place supply. These things and thou must share one equal lot: Die, and be lost, corrupt, and be forgot; While still another, and another race Shall now supply, and now give up the place: From earth all came, to earth must all return; Frail as the cord, and brittle as the urn.
Pàgina 465 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.