Sylvae, Or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies |
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... lose the Fruit of all your former Care , For the fad Profpect of a Just Despair . A Quack ( too fcandalously mean to Name ) Had , by Man - Midwifry , got Wealth , and Fame ; As if Lucina had forgot her Trade , The Lab'ring Wife invokes ...
... lose the Fruit of all your former Care , For the fad Profpect of a Just Despair . A Quack ( too fcandalously mean to Name ) Had , by Man - Midwifry , got Wealth , and Fame ; As if Lucina had forgot her Trade , The Lab'ring Wife invokes ...
Page 138
... Lose a great Patron , and a Mistress too . Next have a care , what Men you recommend To th ' service or esteem of your rich Friend ; Left for his Service or Efteem unfit , They load you with the faults which they commit , But as the ...
... Lose a great Patron , and a Mistress too . Next have a care , what Men you recommend To th ' service or esteem of your rich Friend ; Left for his Service or Efteem unfit , They load you with the faults which they commit , But as the ...
Page 139
... lose more Pleasure than they hop'd to gain . See you , that while your Veffel's under Sail , You make your best Advantage of the Gale ; Left the Wind changes , and some stormy Rain Should throw you back to your first Port again . You ...
... lose more Pleasure than they hop'd to gain . See you , that while your Veffel's under Sail , You make your best Advantage of the Gale ; Left the Wind changes , and some stormy Rain Should throw you back to your first Port again . You ...
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... losing what you gain'd before , Your poor unfatisfi'd misguided Mind , To needy Wishes , and falfe Joys confin❜d , Puts its free boundlefs fearching Thoughts in Chains , And where it fought its Pleasure finds its Pains . If virtuous ...
... losing what you gain'd before , Your poor unfatisfi'd misguided Mind , To needy Wishes , and falfe Joys confin❜d , Puts its free boundlefs fearching Thoughts in Chains , And where it fought its Pleasure finds its Pains . If virtuous ...
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... lose . And meeting Venulus his Arms he clafps ; The Armour dints beneath the furious Grafps . High from his Horfe the fprawling Foe he rears , And thwart his Courfers neck the Prize he bears . The Trojans fhout , the Latines turn their ...
... lose . And meeting Venulus his Arms he clafps ; The Armour dints beneath the furious Grafps . High from his Horfe the fprawling Foe he rears , And thwart his Courfers neck the Prize he bears . The Trojans fhout , the Latines turn their ...
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Becauſe beſt blefs Breaſt caft Catullus Cauſe Charms Chlo cloſe cou'd Cymon Daph Death defire Deſpair difdain Dryden e're Earl Earl Douglas eaſe ev'n ev'ry Eyes fafe faid fame Fate fear feems felf fent fhall fhou'd fight fing firft firſt flain foft fome Fool fooliſh foon Friend ftill fuch fure fweet GEORGE ETHERIDGE Ghoſts Gods Grace Heart Heav'n himſelf Horace Idyllium of Theocritus joys kiffing laft laſt Laufus leaſt lefs leſs loft loſe Love Lucretius Maid Mezentius Mind moſt Mufe Muſe muſt Numbers Nymphs o're Paffion Pain paſt pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Poet Pow'r praiſe purſue Rage reſt rifing Rural Lay Satyr ſay ſcarce Senfe ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhould ſome Song Soul ſpread ſtand ſtay ſtill ſtood ſtrive Tarchon thee thefe Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thou Thoughts thouſand thro Tranflated Verfe Virgil whofe whoſe wife wiſh wou'd wound
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Page 177 - The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand...
Page 236 - To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.
Page 164 - The deep recesses of the grove he gain'd ; Where, in a plain defended by the wood, Crept through the matted grass a...
Page 85 - Or mead for cooling drink prepares Of virgin honey in the jars. Or in the now declining year, When bounteous Autumn rears his head, He joys to pull the ripen'd pear, And clustring grapes with purple spread. The fairest of his fruit he serves, Priapus thy rewards: Sylvanus too his part deserves, Whose care the fences guards.
Page 32 - Must be, when those misfortunes shall arrive; And since the man who is not feels not woe (For death exempts him, and wards off the blow, Which we, the living, only feel and bear) What is there left for us in death to fear? When once that pause of life has come between, 'Tis just the same as we had never been. And therefore if a man bemoan his lot, That after death his mouldering limbs shall rot, Or flames, or jaws of beasts devour his mass, Know, he's an unsincere, unthinking ass.
Page 83 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 164 - And on the Margin of the Fount was laid (Attended by her Slaves) a sleeping Maid. Like Dian, and her Nymphs, when tir'd with...
Page 178 - Depriv'd of day, and held in fetters faft : His life was only fpar'd at their requeft, Whom taken he fo nobly had releas'd : But ! But Iphigenia was the ladies care, Each in their turn addrefs'd to treat the fair ; While Pafimond and his the nuptial feaft prepare.
Page 165 - Fix'd on her face, nor could remove his sight, New as he was to love, and novice in delight; Long mute he stood, and leaning on his staff, His wonder...
Page 161 - Though now arraign'd, he read with some delight; Because he seems to chew the cud again, When his broad comment makes the text too plain; And teaches more in one explaining page, Than all the double meanings of the stage.