The Parasite, Volums 1-2

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P. Wilson, 1765 - 228 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 220 - Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste...
Pàgina 89 - From fix i' th' hundred, to fix hundred more ? Indulge, and to thy genius freely give ; For, not to live at eafe, is not to live ; Death ftalks behind thee, and each flying hour Does fome loofe remnant of thy life devour. Live, while thou liv'ft ; for death will make us all A name, a nothing but an old wife's tale. Speak ; wilt thou Avarice, or Pleafure, chufe To be thy lord ? Take one, and one refufe.
Pàgina 5 - There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war, A thief and justice, fool and knave, A huffing officer and a slave, A crafty lawyer and pick-pocket, A great philosopher and a block-head, A formal preacher and a player, A learn'd...
Pàgina 220 - The herds would over-multitude their lords, The fea o'erfraught would fwell, and th' unfought diamonds Would fo imblaze the forehead of the deep, And fo beftud with ftars, that they below Would grow inur'd to light, and come at laft 735 To gaze upon the fun with fhamelefs brows.
Pàgina 220 - She. hutch'd th' all-worshipp'd ore and precious gems, To store her children with : if all the world Should in a fit of temp'rance feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th...
Pàgina 148 - What mifery th' inabftinence of Eve Shall bring on men. Immediately a place Before his eyes appear'd, fad, noifome, dark,.
Pàgina 2 - Kingdom consists of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, the principality of Wales and the province of Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is a separate country. Confusion arises, not least because of the popular usage of the term 'country' to mean 'a land' as well as 'a sovereign, self governing state'.

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