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 135
... crowds , [ litus , And give the pains you fuffer'd : nay , Hippo- The fierce , the brave , th ' infenfible Hippolitus ... crowd upon my That evidence their love . Phed . Yes , yes , they love ; foul Why elfe fhould he refufe my proffer'd ...
... crowds , [ litus , And give the pains you fuffer'd : nay , Hippo- The fierce , the brave , th ' infenfible Hippolitus ... crowd upon my That evidence their love . Phed . Yes , yes , they love ; foul Why elfe fhould he refufe my proffer'd ...
Page 136
... crowds roll onwards tow'rds the palace , And rend the city with tumultuous clamours ! Perhaps to murder Phædra and her ... crowd they tell my follies . Enter Cratander . Crat . Sir , as I went to feize the perfons or- der'd , I met the ...
... crowds roll onwards tow'rds the palace , And rend the city with tumultuous clamours ! Perhaps to murder Phædra and her ... crowd they tell my follies . Enter Cratander . Crat . Sir , as I went to feize the perfons or- der'd , I met the ...
Page 147
... crowds ; Give me but life and make that life mott wretch- ed . Phad . Art thou fo bafe , fo fpiritlefs a flave ? Not fo the lovely youth thy arts have ruin'd , Not fo he bore the fate to which you doom'd hiin . Thef . O abject villain ...
... crowds ; Give me but life and make that life mott wretch- ed . Phad . Art thou fo bafe , fo fpiritlefs a flave ? Not fo the lovely youth thy arts have ruin'd , Not fo he bore the fate to which you doom'd hiin . Thef . O abject villain ...
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