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... ftill the hardest part remains . Strephon had long perplex'd his brains , † A veil which the Roman brides covered themselves with when they were going to be married . A marriage - fong . Diana goddess of midwives . How with fo high a ...
... ftill the hardest part remains . Strephon had long perplex'd his brains , † A veil which the Roman brides covered themselves with when they were going to be married . A marriage - fong . Diana goddess of midwives . How with fo high a ...
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... ftill , And make him fancy what the will . In bed we left the married pair : 145 ' Tis time to fhew how things went there . Strephon , who had been often told That fortune ftill affifts the bold , Refolv'd to make the firft attack But ...
... ftill , And make him fancy what the will . In bed we left the married pair : 145 ' Tis time to fhew how things went there . Strephon , who had been often told That fortune ftill affifts the bold , Refolv'd to make the firft attack But ...
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... ftill must practise to maintain it . WHAT various ways our females take To pafs for wits before a rake ! And in the fruitless fearch purfue All other methods but the true . SOME try to learn polite behaviour By reading books against ...
... ftill must practise to maintain it . WHAT various ways our females take To pafs for wits before a rake ! And in the fruitless fearch purfue All other methods but the true . SOME try to learn polite behaviour By reading books against ...
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... ftill : And thus a mutual gentle fire Shall never but with life expire . APOLLO ; or , A PROBLEM solved . Written in the year 1731 . APOLLO , god of light and wit , Could verfe inspire , but seldom writ ; Refin'd all metals with his ...
... ftill : And thus a mutual gentle fire Shall never but with life expire . APOLLO ; or , A PROBLEM solved . Written in the year 1731 . APOLLO , god of light and wit , Could verfe inspire , but seldom writ ; Refin'd all metals with his ...
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... ftill St Stephen's chapel open lies For Will to enter what fhall I advise ? 5 10 E'en quit the HOUSE , for thou too long has fat in't , Produce at last thy dormant ducal patent ; There , near thy master's throne in fhelter plac'd , Let ...
... ftill St Stephen's chapel open lies For Will to enter what fhall I advise ? 5 10 E'en quit the HOUSE , for thou too long has fat in't , Produce at last thy dormant ducal patent ; There , near thy master's throne in fhelter plac'd , Let ...
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Page 203 - ... durable qualities. You have but a very few years to be young and handsome in the eyes of the world, and as few months to be so in the eyes of a husband who is not a fool ; for I hope you do not still dream of charms and raptures, which marriage ever did, and ever will, put a sudden end to.
Page 169 - Simplicity, without which no human Performance can arrive to any great Perfection, is no where more eminently useful than in this.
Page 36 - In bulk there are not more degrees, From elephants to mites in cheese, Than what a curious eye may trace In creatures of the rhyming race. From bad to worse, and worse, they fall ; But who can reach the...
Page 85 - When beasts could speak, (the learned say They still can do so every day,) It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men. It happen'd, when a plague broke out, (Which therefore made them more devout,) The king of brutes (to make it plain, Of quadrupeds I only mean) By proclamation gave command, That every...
Page 40 - Let them rave at making laws ; While they never hold their tongue, Let them dabble in their dung : Let them form a grand committee, How to plague and starve the city ; Let them...
Page 31 - Then, poet, if you mean to thrive, Employ your Muse on kings alive ; With prudence gathering up a cluster Of all the virtues you can muster, Which, form'd into a garland sweet, Lay humbly at your monarch's feet :. Who, as the odours reach his throne, Will smile, and think them all his own...
Page 197 - ... and, although they may be, and too often are, drawn by the temptations of youth, and the opportunities of a large fortune, into some irregularities when they come forward into the great world, it is ever with reluctance and compunction of mind, because their bias to virtue still continues.
Page 178 - I have been better entertained, and more informed by a few pages in the Pilgrim's Progress, than by a long discourse upon the will and the intellect, and simple or complex ideas.
Page 375 - Your good behaviour on this article will concern your whole community: deny the fact with all solemnity of imprecations: a hundred of your brethren, if they can be admitted^, will attend about the bar, and be ready upon demand to give you a...
Page 204 - ... so your sex employs more thought, memory, and application to be fools, than would serve to make them wise and useful. When I reflect on this, I cannot conceive you ' to" be human creatures, but a sort of species hardly a degree above a monkey/ who...