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Strana 64 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Strana 77 - I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Strana 172 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Strana 159 - Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child...
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Strana 236 - Howard Castle, or a Romance from the Mountains, by a North Briton, 5 vols 1...
Strana 243 - I have purchas'd with my own? Lay it before me then ; it is my due. Unkind Alonzo! though I might demand it, Behold I kneel ! See, Leonora kneels...
Strana 108 - He hastened, and beheld the mouldering walls, Black with the rust of age, and all within, Silence and waste ; while not a sound was heard, But the wind moaning, not a form beheld, Save one that fancy imaged to his mind— 250 The spirit of Destruction.
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