A Collection of Scarce, Curious and Valuable Pieces: Both in Verse and Prose |
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A Collection of Scarce, Curious and Valuable Pieces: Both in Verse and Prose Walter Ruddiman No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 217 - Whofe active elbows fwelling winds command, The fwelling winds harmonious pipes infpire, And blow in ev'ry breaft a gen'rous fire. Thus taught, at firft the Country-dance began. And hence to cities and to courts it ran ; Succeeding ages did in time impart...
Page 209 - Say from what caufe it fir(t deriv'd its birth, How form'd in heav'n, how thence deduc'd to earth. Once in Arcadia, that fam'd feat of love, There liv'da nymph, the pride of all the grove, A lovely nymph, adorn'd with ev'ry grace, An eafy fhape, and fweetly-blooming face...
Page 208 - Tho' long fince moulder'd in the dufky tomb, Still thy loft Garter is thy fovereign's care, And what each royal breaft is proud to wear. But let me now my lovely charge remind ; Left they forgetful leave their fans behind ; Lay not, ye fair, the pretty toy afide, A toy at once difplay'd, for ufe and pride, A wond'rous engine, that by magic charms, Cools your own breafts, and ev'ry other's warms.
Page 397 - I'd live. I would with jockeys from Newmarket dine, And to rough-riders give my choiceft wine j I would carefs fome ftableman of note, And imitate his language and his coat. My ev'nings all I would with fharpers fpend, And make the thief-catcher my bofom friend.
Page 211 - Now let the youth, to whofe fuperior place It firft belongs the fplendid ball to grace, With humble bow, and ready hand prepare, Forth from the crowd to lead his chofen fair; The fair fhall not his kind requeft deny, But to the pleafing toil with equal ardour fly.
Page 210 - But ftill he fighs, and ftill he wooes in vain ; The cruel nymph, regardlefs of his moan, Minds not his flame, uneafy with her own ; But ftill complains, that he who rul'd the air Would not command one Zephyr to repair Around her face, nor gentle breeze to play Through the dark glade, to cool the fultry day ; By love incited, and the hopes of joy, Th...
Page 390 - I'is charming reading in Ophelia's life, So oft a mother, and not once a wife : She could with juft propriety behave, Alive with peers, with monarchs in her grave : Her lot how oft have envious harlots wept, By prebends bury'd, and by generals kept. T...
Page 401 - Their wormips, and honours, and lordfhips, and graces : From long dedications to patrons unworthy, Who hear and receive, but will do nothing for thee : From being carefs'd to be left in the lurch, The tool of a party, in ftate or in church...
Page 222 - Ah, thoughtlefs fair ! the tempting draught refufe, When thus fore-warn'd by my experienc'd Mufe ; Let the fad confequence your thoughts employ, Nor hazard future pains, for prefent joy, Deftruftion lurks within the pois'nous dofe, A fatal fever, or a pimpled nofe. Thus thro...
Page 216 - And flies like her thro' crowds of heroes flain. Now when the Minuet oft repeated o'er, (Like all terreftrial joys) can pleafe no more, And ev'ry nymph, refufing to expand Her charms, declines the circulating hand ; Then let the jovial Country-dance begin, And the loud fiddles call each ftraggler in : But ere they come, permit me to difclofe, How firft, as legends tell, this paftime rofe.