Miscellany poems concluded. Miscellaneous poems published from more correct copies. Hero and Leander in burlesque. The posthumous worksNonesuch Press, 1924 |
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3. oldal
... prove , for Bragging most , less stout , Hypocrites leaft Saints , feeming most devout ; Falle Courtiers least Friends , by most Courtefie , Lovers lefs true , for open Vanity , And great Profeffions , which true Faith belie ; Both Men ...
... prove , for Bragging most , less stout , Hypocrites leaft Saints , feeming most devout ; Falle Courtiers least Friends , by most Courtefie , Lovers lefs true , for open Vanity , And great Profeffions , which true Faith belie ; Both Men ...
4. oldal
... prove less still in effect ; Thus , out of Int'reft , Custom , Vanity , Most Men profeffing most Truth , most will lie , Whose Oaths , their Words , Affertions most deny ; Have , know , think least , of what they talk of most , Vain ...
... prove less still in effect ; Thus , out of Int'reft , Custom , Vanity , Most Men profeffing most Truth , most will lie , Whose Oaths , their Words , Affertions most deny ; Have , know , think least , of what they talk of most , Vain ...
8. oldal
... prove Impertinence ; To make his Foes more , than they were before , Friends Trust him less , but as his Wit is more ; More Folly , but by more Wit , so to show , Since for most Fools , the most Wise ought to go , When they have most ...
... prove Impertinence ; To make his Foes more , than they were before , Friends Trust him less , but as his Wit is more ; More Folly , but by more Wit , so to show , Since for most Fools , the most Wise ought to go , When they have most ...
9. oldal
... prove ; VII . For Truth to one Old Mistress , were , To the whole Sex more falfe to grow ; And Faith to one Particular , But Wrong to all the reft wou'd do ; The Dues of all , to pay to one , Were most Injuftice cou'd be done ; VIII ...
... prove ; VII . For Truth to one Old Mistress , were , To the whole Sex more falfe to grow ; And Faith to one Particular , But Wrong to all the reft wou'd do ; The Dues of all , to pay to one , Were most Injuftice cou'd be done ; VIII ...
11. oldal
... prove , Of Invitations , but the Checks to Love ; Thus , us , to love them , greatest Beauties move Lefs , by their Good Looks , Multiplicity , Which Pride and Affectations multiply , To make the Best Looks , look moft Uglily ; For when ...
... prove , Of Invitations , but the Checks to Love ; Thus , us , to love them , greatest Beauties move Lefs , by their Good Looks , Multiplicity , Which Pride and Affectations multiply , To make the Best Looks , look moft Uglily ; For when ...
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againſt Beauty becauſe beft beſt boaſt Cauſe cou'd Courſe Defire deſtroy Difgrace Diſappointment e'er Eaſe elſe ev'n ev'ry faid Faith falſe Fame Fate fave Fear feem felf felves fhew fhou'd fince firſt Foes fome Fools foon forc'd fpight Friends Friendſhip ftill fuch fure gain give greateſt grow Happineſs Heav'n Hero Hero and Leander himſelf Honour Induſtry juft juſt Kindneſs laſt Leander leaſt lefs leſs lofe loſe Love Love's Lovers Man's Mind Miſtreſs Modefty moft moſt Muft muſt Nature Art ne'er Numbers omits this couplet Paffion Pain paſs pleaſe Pleaſure Poor Pow'r Praiſe Pride prove publick raiſe Reaſon Satyr ſay ſee ſeem ſelf Senfe Senſe ſhall Shame ſhe ſhould ſhow ſpeak ſtill thee themſelves theſe things thoſe thou thought true Uſe Virtue Want Weakneſs Whilft whofe Whoſe Wife WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Wiſdom World worſe worſt wou'd
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270. oldal - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new; Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Tricked in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
264. oldal - Just like the manhood of nine tailors. So a wild Tartar, when he spies A man that's handsome, valiant, wise, If he can kill him, thinks t...
263. oldal - Than burnish'd armour of her knight -, A bold virago, stout and tall, As Joan of France, or English...
263. oldal - Cittern. Or Cithern, an instrument of the guitar kind, but strung with wire, and played with a plectrum or quill. It was commonly kept in barbers' shops for the use of customers, and often had a grotesquely carved head. The Tyrolese form of the instrument, which is known of recent years, in England is generally called the Zither.
274. oldal - Tunbridge is the same distance from London, that Fontainebleau is from Paris, and is, at the season, the general rendezvous of all the gay and handsome of both sexes. The company, though...
268. oldal - A sort of jacket called zjustacorps came into fashion in Paris about 1650. M. Quicherat informs us that a pretty Parisienne, the wife of a maltre de comptes named Belot, was the first who appeared in it. In a ballad called The New-made Gentlewoman, written in the reign of Charles II, occurs the line "My justice and black patches I wear".
265. oldal - Sheart, sir, but there is, and much offence. A pox, is this your inns o' court breeding, not to know your friends and your relations, your elders, and your betters?
267. oldal - Now all my fresh colour deserted my face, And let a pale greenness succeed in the place, I pine and grow faint, and refuse all my meat, And nothing but Chalk, Lime, or Oatmeal, can eat : But in my despair I'le die if I can, And languish no longer for want of a man.
273. oldal - Almah. That love which you can hope, and I can pay, May be received and given in open day : My praise and my esteem you had before ; And you have bound yourself to ask no more.
271. oldal - Not Whigs, nor Tories they; nor this, nor that; Not birds, nor beasts; but just a kind of bat: A twilight animal, true to neither cause, With Tory wiiigs, but Whiggish teeth and claws.