Miscellany poems concluded. Miscellaneous poems published from more correct copies. Hero and Leander in burlesque. The posthumous worksNonesuch Press, 1924 |
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6. oldal
... Things went in Town , fince Her Departure . I. HE Town is , like the Season , fad , TH Since you , and your Bright Brother Sun , Are at fuch Distance , with us , made , We Chill'd , for want of Heat , are grown ; So , Nought but your ...
... Things went in Town , fince Her Departure . I. HE Town is , like the Season , fad , TH Since you , and your Bright Brother Sun , Are at fuch Distance , with us , made , We Chill'd , for want of Heat , are grown ; So , Nought but your ...
7. oldal
... Things here , must pass , The Wit , who fcorns Examples , proves an Afs ; For , fince Dull Custom is too hard for Wit , He shows most Senfe , who leaft depends on it ; So none now , Fops for Want of Sense appear , Made , as most of ...
... Things here , must pass , The Wit , who fcorns Examples , proves an Afs ; For , fince Dull Custom is too hard for Wit , He shows most Senfe , who leaft depends on it ; So none now , Fops for Want of Sense appear , Made , as most of ...
12. oldal
... Thing , that the Sight , That it did , from me , take my Seeing quite ; Fixing my Eyes upon its Snow ( I find ) Like other Snow gaz'd on , it made me Blind ; So Blind , that I , my Way to Bliss , no more Can find , by Groping , as I did ...
... Thing , that the Sight , That it did , from me , take my Seeing quite ; Fixing my Eyes upon its Snow ( I find ) Like other Snow gaz'd on , it made me Blind ; So Blind , that I , my Way to Bliss , no more Can find , by Groping , as I did ...
14. oldal
... ; When Univerfal Ruine , wou'd attend Its standing still , to all things put an End ; So Motion we but neceffary find , To the Support , as making Human Kind ; Nature's preferv'd by that , as Man , is made ( 14 ) MISCELLANY POEMS.
... ; When Univerfal Ruine , wou'd attend Its standing still , to all things put an End ; So Motion we but neceffary find , To the Support , as making Human Kind ; Nature's preferv'd by that , as Man , is made ( 14 ) MISCELLANY POEMS.
15. oldal
... things had , ( If Motion had not quicken'd them ) lain dead ; Increase of Life , Health , Wealth , Felicity , ( You fee ) depends on Active Industry ; Then why must only you , and I , ( my Dear ! ) Lie ftill , when all things elfe in ...
... things had , ( If Motion had not quicken'd them ) lain dead ; Increase of Life , Health , Wealth , Felicity , ( You fee ) depends on Active Industry ; Then why must only you , and I , ( my Dear ! ) Lie ftill , when all things elfe in ...
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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.