Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of Youth, in Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 2C. Dilly, 1791 - English poetry |
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Page 21
... stand in better place , Garnish'd like him , that for a trickley word Defy the matter . Portia's Merit . It is very meet The lord Baffanio live an upright life ; For having fuch a bleffing in his lady He finds the joys of heaven here on ...
... stand in better place , Garnish'd like him , that for a trickley word Defy the matter . Portia's Merit . It is very meet The lord Baffanio live an upright life ; For having fuch a bleffing in his lady He finds the joys of heaven here on ...
Page 43
... stand the buffet With knaves that finell of fweat ; fay this be- comes him ; ( As his compofure must be rare indeed , Whom these things cannot blemish ) yet muft Antony No way excufe his foils , when we do bear So great weight in his ...
... stand the buffet With knaves that finell of fweat ; fay this be- comes him ; ( As his compofure must be rare indeed , Whom these things cannot blemish ) yet muft Antony No way excufe his foils , when we do bear So great weight in his ...
Page 80
... stand up , And fay to all the world , " This was a man ! " $ 28 . KING LEAR . SHAKESPEARE . An alienated Child . L ET it be fo , thy truth then be thy dower : For , by the facred radiance of the fun , The mysteries of Hecate and the ...
... stand up , And fay to all the world , " This was a man ! " $ 28 . KING LEAR . SHAKESPEARE . An alienated Child . L ET it be fo , thy truth then be thy dower : For , by the facred radiance of the fun , The mysteries of Hecate and the ...
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