Select epigrams, 1. kötetS. Low, 1797 |
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9. oldal
... . How happy would appear to each his fate , His Gripe his humour , or he Gripe's estate ! Kind Fate and Fortune blend ' em , if you can , And of two wretches make one happy man . EPIGRAM . BY LEONARD WELSTED . " IOWE , " [ 9 ]
... . How happy would appear to each his fate , His Gripe his humour , or he Gripe's estate ! Kind Fate and Fortune blend ' em , if you can , And of two wretches make one happy man . EPIGRAM . BY LEONARD WELSTED . " IOWE , " [ 9 ]
36. oldal
... kind To that dear felf he left behind , I dare believe that four in five Will think his better half alive . ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT . BY POPE . I KNOW the thing that's most uncommon ; ( Envy , be filent , and attend ! ) I know a ...
... kind To that dear felf he left behind , I dare believe that four in five Will think his better half alive . ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT . BY POPE . I KNOW the thing that's most uncommon ; ( Envy , be filent , and attend ! ) I know a ...
38. oldal
... kind as Love , And strong as Hercules . * When Pope wrote this epigram , I think he must have recollected a paffage from Sir William Temple's " Heads defigned for an Effay on Conversation : ❞— " Mr. Grantam's Fool's reply to a great ...
... kind as Love , And strong as Hercules . * When Pope wrote this epigram , I think he must have recollected a paffage from Sir William Temple's " Heads defigned for an Effay on Conversation : ❞— " Mr. Grantam's Fool's reply to a great ...
72. oldal
... kind , So fmooth her forehead , and her voice fo fweet , Her words fo tender , and her dress so neat , That would kind heav'n , whence man all good derives , In wondrous bounty , fend me three fuch wives , Dear happy husband ! take it ...
... kind , So fmooth her forehead , and her voice fo fweet , Her words fo tender , and her dress so neat , That would kind heav'n , whence man all good derives , In wondrous bounty , fend me three fuch wives , Dear happy husband ! take it ...
80. oldal
... 'd , of filly toasters proud , Fond of a train , and happy in a crowd ; On each poor fool bestowing fome kind glance , Each conquest owing to fome loose advance ; While vain coquettes affect to be purfued , And think [ 80 ]
... 'd , of filly toasters proud , Fond of a train , and happy in a crowd ; On each poor fool bestowing fome kind glance , Each conquest owing to fome loose advance ; While vain coquettes affect to be purfued , And think [ 80 ]
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71. oldal - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
30. oldal - EPIGRAM. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.
4. oldal - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
5. oldal - Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
19. oldal - Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, The son of Adam and of Eve ; Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? " But, in this case, the old prejudice got the better of the old joke.
115. oldal - ILov'd thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow ; So alter'd are thy face and mind, 'Twere perjury to love thee now.
88. oldal - In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, And born in bed, in bed we die; The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.
22. oldal - Radcliff ; was so ill, That other doctors gave me over : He felt my pulse, prescribed his pill, And I was likely to recover. " But when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warmed the politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
126. oldal - And rather than do such a naughty affair, She became a fine laurel to deck the God's hair. The nymph was, no doubt, of a cold constitution; For sure to turn tree was an odd resolution!
10. oldal - Affure yourfelf, was loudly rated : And madam, getting up again, With her own hand the moufe-trap baited. On little things, as fages write, Depends our human joy or forrow : If we don't catch a moufe to-night, Alas ! no eye-brows for to-morrow.