Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose ...T. Longman, 1796 - 1008 pagini |
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Pagina 549
... play , Prefents more woeful pageants than the scene Jaques . All the world's a stage , And all the men and women merely players ; They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts , His acts being ...
... play , Prefents more woeful pageants than the scene Jaques . All the world's a stage , And all the men and women merely players ; They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts , His acts being ...
Pagina 553
... play truant at his tales , And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So fweet and voluble is hi , difcourfe . A ... Playing in the wanton air : Thro ' the velvet leaves the wind , All unfeen , ' gan paffage find ; That the lover , fick ...
... play truant at his tales , And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So fweet and voluble is hi , difcourfe . A ... Playing in the wanton air : Thro ' the velvet leaves the wind , All unfeen , ' gan paffage find ; That the lover , fick ...
Pagina 554
... plays at tables , chides the dice In honourable terms : nay , he can fing A mean most meanly ; and in ufhering Mend ... play with our oaths ; your beauty , ladies , [ mours Hath much deform'd us , fashioning our hu- Even to the oppofed ...
... plays at tables , chides the dice In honourable terms : nay , he can fing A mean most meanly ; and in ufhering Mend ... play with our oaths ; your beauty , ladies , [ mours Hath much deform'd us , fashioning our hu- Even to the oppofed ...
Pagina 558
... play the foolish throngs with one that fwoons ; Come all to help him , and thus ftop the air By which he fhould revive and even fo The gen'ral , fubject to a well - wish'd king , Quit their own part , and in obfequious fondness Crowd to ...
... play the foolish throngs with one that fwoons ; Come all to help him , and thus ftop the air By which he fhould revive and even fo The gen'ral , fubject to a well - wish'd king , Quit their own part , and in obfequious fondness Crowd to ...
Pagina 561
... play his part ; And mine a fad one ! Cheerfulness and affected Gravity contrafted . Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine , Than my heart cool with mortifying ...
... play his part ; And mine a fad one ! Cheerfulness and affected Gravity contrafted . Let me play the fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine , Than my heart cool with mortifying ...
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Pagina 715 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Pagina 622 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Pagina 714 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Pagina 548 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Pagina 621 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Pagina 619 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent...
Pagina 620 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Pagina 570 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Pagina 683 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Pagina 548 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.