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... best Pieces of its kind that even AUGUSTUS's Age produced , will have a more powerful Operation ; if clear Senfe , joined with home , but gentle Reproofs , can work more on our Writers , than that unmerciful expofing of ' em has done ...
... best Pieces of its kind that even AUGUSTUS's Age produced , will have a more powerful Operation ; if clear Senfe , joined with home , but gentle Reproofs , can work more on our Writers , than that unmerciful expofing of ' em has done ...
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... best , ) The fair ALMERIA fhin'd above the reft . From her bright Eyes to feel a hopeless Flame , Was of our Youth the most ambitious Aim ; Her Chains were Marks of Honour to the Brave , She made a Prince whene'er fhe made a Slave ...
... best , ) The fair ALMERIA fhin'd above the reft . From her bright Eyes to feel a hopeless Flame , Was of our Youth the most ambitious Aim ; Her Chains were Marks of Honour to the Brave , She made a Prince whene'er fhe made a Slave ...
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... best . Own but the fame to me , you'll find How bleft will be our Fate Oh , to be happy , to be kind , Sure never is too late . E 2 SONG . F SONG . ROM all uneafy Paffions free , Revenge SONGS AND VERSES . 3 How bleft will be our Fate ...
... best . Own but the fame to me , you'll find How bleft will be our Fate Oh , to be happy , to be kind , Sure never is too late . E 2 SONG . F SONG . ROM all uneafy Paffions free , Revenge SONGS AND VERSES . 3 How bleft will be our Fate ...
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... best A Nymph fo far above the reft , That we outfhin'd the Bleft above , In Beauty fhe , and I in Love . And therefore they who could not bear To be outdone by Mortals here , F 4 Among Among themselves have plac'd her now , And left me ...
... best A Nymph fo far above the reft , That we outfhin'd the Bleft above , In Beauty fhe , and I in Love . And therefore they who could not bear To be outdone by Mortals here , F 4 Among Among themselves have plac'd her now , And left me ...
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... best , Ye all have robb'd poor Women of their Reft . I fee your Pain , and fee it too with Grief , Because I would , yet muft not give Relief ; Thus , for a Husband's fake , as well as yours , My fcrup'lous Soul divided Pain endures ...
... best , Ye all have robb'd poor Women of their Reft . I fee your Pain , and fee it too with Grief , Because I would , yet muft not give Relief ; Thus , for a Husband's fake , as well as yours , My fcrup'lous Soul divided Pain endures ...
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Page 295 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 297 - O, now you weep; and I perceive you feel The dint of pity: these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded?
Page 295 - Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men ; And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad. 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ; For if you should, O, what would come of it ! 4 Cit.
Page 231 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 229 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he...
Page 229 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 297 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 102 - I as wife as many of my fex : But time and you may bolder thoughts infpire ; And I, perhaps, may yield to your defire.
Page 99 - I shou'd upbraid your treachery, You make a merit of that crime to me. Yet grant you were to faithful love inclin'd, Your weary Trojans wait but for a wind. Should you prevail; while I...
Page 138 - tis a bold pretence To judgment, breeding, wit, and eloquence : Nay more ; for they muft look within, to find Thofe fecret turns of nature in the mind : Without this part, in vain would be the whole, And but a body all, without a foul.