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... Dean in the Lutrin . ) CHARACTERS OF PILGRIMS . Whanně that April with his shourĕs sote The droughte of Marche hath perced to the rote , And bathed every veine in swiche licòur , Of whiche vertùe engendred is the flour ; Whan Zephirus ...
... Dean in the Lutrin . ) CHARACTERS OF PILGRIMS . Whanně that April with his shourĕs sote The droughte of Marche hath perced to the rote , And bathed every veine in swiche licòur , Of whiche vertùe engendred is the flour ; Whan Zephirus ...
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... dean and chapter , and white sleeves . " " And what would serve , if these were gone To make it orthodox ? " - " Our own . " " What makes morality a crime , The most notorious of the time ; Morality , which both the saints And wicked ...
... dean and chapter , and white sleeves . " " And what would serve , if these were gone To make it orthodox ? " - " Our own . " " What makes morality a crime , The most notorious of the time ; Morality , which both the saints And wicked ...
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... dean invite , Who never mentions hell to ears polite . But hark ! the chiming clocks to dinner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall : The rich buffet well - colored serpents grace , And gaping Tritons spew to wash your face ...
... dean invite , Who never mentions hell to ears polite . But hark ! the chiming clocks to dinner call ; A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall : The rich buffet well - colored serpents grace , And gaping Tritons spew to wash your face ...
Page 222
... Dean and his friends , she had led him to believe she would . But Swift was full of fancies ; and Lady Suffolk , by consent of all that were in habits of intimacy with her , was a most amiable as well as even - tempered woman . THE ...
... Dean and his friends , she had led him to believe she would . But Swift was full of fancies ; and Lady Suffolk , by consent of all that were in habits of intimacy with her , was a most amiable as well as even - tempered woman . THE ...
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... Dean going with his verger before him , in flowing gown and five times washed face , with his nails pared to the quick . His long irregular prose verses with rhymes at the end , are an invention of his own ; and a similar mixture is ...
... Dean going with his verger before him , in flowing gown and five times washed face , with his nails pared to the quick . His long irregular prose verses with rhymes at the end , are an invention of his own ; and a similar mixture is ...
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Page 251 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and...
Page 218 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise...
Page 181 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 90 - And that it was great pity, so it was, That villanous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy 'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 89 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 208 - The rest the winds dispers'd in empty air. But now secure the painted vessel glides, The sun-beams trembling on the floating tides : While melting music steals upon the sky, And soften'd sounds along the waters die : •Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay.
Page 193 - And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty: Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Heywood and Shirley were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology...
Page 4 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 160 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 211 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last ; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen ; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes ; At every word a reputation dies.