Miscellany poems. By mr. Pope (By several hands). |
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... fate of things lies always in the dark , What Cavalier would know St. James's park ? For Locket's ftands where gardens once did spring , And wild ducks quake where grass - hoppers did fing . A princely palace on that space does rife ...
... fate of things lies always in the dark , What Cavalier would know St. James's park ? For Locket's ftands where gardens once did spring , And wild ducks quake where grass - hoppers did fing . A princely palace on that space does rife ...
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... fate of cooks , " From whose myfterious art true pleasure springs " To fall of Garter and to throne of Kings . " A fimple scene , a disobliging song , " Which no way to the main defign belong , " Or were they abfent , never wou'd be ...
... fate of cooks , " From whose myfterious art true pleasure springs " To fall of Garter and to throne of Kings . " A fimple scene , a disobliging song , " Which no way to the main defign belong , " Or were they abfent , never wou'd be ...
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... fate of wealth ; were Lords , as butchers wife , They from their meat wou'd banish al kne flies : The Perfian kings with wine and massy bowl -Search'd to the dark receffes of the foul ; That so laid open , no one might pretend , Unless ...
... fate of wealth ; were Lords , as butchers wife , They from their meat wou'd banish al kne flies : The Perfian kings with wine and massy bowl -Search'd to the dark receffes of the foul ; That so laid open , no one might pretend , Unless ...
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... fate Down to a pudding without plumbs or fat . What teeth or ftomach's ftrong enough to feed Upon a goofe my grannum kept to breed ? Why muft old pidgeons , and they stale , be dreft , When there's so many squab ones in the nest ? This ...
... fate Down to a pudding without plumbs or fat . What teeth or ftomach's ftrong enough to feed Upon a goofe my grannum kept to breed ? Why muft old pidgeons , and they stale , be dreft , When there's so many squab ones in the nest ? This ...
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... decreed by fate , Which fhews us whom to love , and whom to hate , To a young handsome jolly lass made court , And gave his friends convincing reason for't , That " That fince in life fuch mischief may be had 40 MISCELLANIES .
... decreed by fate , Which fhews us whom to love , and whom to hate , To a young handsome jolly lass made court , And gave his friends convincing reason for't , That " That fince in life fuch mischief may be had 40 MISCELLANIES .
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Page 197 - To find if books, or swains, report it right (For yet by swains alone the world he knew...
Page 204 - The Maker justly claims that world he made, In this the right of Providence is laid; Its sacred majesty through all depends On using second means to work his ends...
Page 198 - And hail, my son," the reverend sire replied ; Words follow'd words, from question answer flow'd, And talk of various kind deceiv'd the road ; Till each with other pleas'd, and loth to part, While in their age they differ, join in heart : Thus stands an aged elm in ivy bound, Thus youthful ivy clasps an elm around.
Page 205 - With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver...
Page 203 - His robe turn'd white, and flow'd upon his feet ; Fair rounds of radiant points...
Page 200 - Unkind and griping, caus'da desert there. As near the miser's heavy doors they drew, Fierce rising gusts with sudden fury blew ; The nimble lightning mix'd with showers began, And o'er their heads loud rolling thunder ran.
Page 196 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 219 - SONG. WHEN thy beauty appears, In its graces and airs, All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky ; At distance I gaze, and am aw'd by my fears, So strangely you dazzle my eye ! But when without art, Your kind thoughts you impart, When your love runs in blushes through every vein; When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart, Then I know you're a woman again. There's a passion and pride In our sex...
Page 198 - The table groans with costly piles of food, And all Is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day Along the wide canals the zephyrs play ; Fresh o'er the gay parterres the breezes creep.
Page 210 - For which, an eloquence, that aims to vex, With native tropes of anger, arms the sex.