Anthologia: A Collection of Epigrams, Ludicrous Epitaphs, Sonnets, Tales, Miscellaneous Anecdotes, &c. &c., Interspersed with OriginalsC. Spilsbury and sold by S. Highley, 1807 - 184 sider |
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... , my friend , what lass I'd enjoy ? I'd have one that is neither too coming nor coy : A medium is best , that gives us no pain By too much indulgence - nor too much disdain . EASE OF TEMPER . POOR Dick , an honest , 24 ON WEDLOCK. ...
... , my friend , what lass I'd enjoy ? I'd have one that is neither too coming nor coy : A medium is best , that gives us no pain By too much indulgence - nor too much disdain . EASE OF TEMPER . POOR Dick , an honest , 24 ON WEDLOCK. ...
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... EASE OF TEMPER . POOR Dick , an honest , thoughtless fellow , Good - natur'd , whether cool or mellow ; No change of fortune Dick can alter , No want can make his spirits falter : Blow high , blow low , Dick feels it not , He's quite at ...
... EASE OF TEMPER . POOR Dick , an honest , thoughtless fellow , Good - natur'd , whether cool or mellow ; No change of fortune Dick can alter , No want can make his spirits falter : Blow high , blow low , Dick feels it not , He's quite at ...
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... my son , born blind , plays on the fiddle . EPITAPH ON MY WIFE . My wife ten years , not much to my ease ; But now she's dead , in cœlo quies . N. B. Great variety within . ARCHBISHOP KING AND DR . HALLEY . WITH age exhausted 50.
... my son , born blind , plays on the fiddle . EPITAPH ON MY WIFE . My wife ten years , not much to my ease ; But now she's dead , in cœlo quies . N. B. Great variety within . ARCHBISHOP KING AND DR . HALLEY . WITH age exhausted 50.
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... ease ; And so you don't paint it , e'en do what you please . " " You're smart , " rejoins Kneller ; " but , say what you will , I'll take any thing from you - but potion or pill . " 1 ANECDOTE OF THE MILBANK FAMILY . LADY Dorothy ...
... ease ; And so you don't paint it , e'en do what you please . " " You're smart , " rejoins Kneller ; " but , say what you will , I'll take any thing from you - but potion or pill . " 1 ANECDOTE OF THE MILBANK FAMILY . LADY Dorothy ...
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... Ease my passion by your art ; And , in pity to my pain , Mend the hole that's in my heart . EPITAPH ON MR . PITT . HERE lies a Pitt within this Pit , Who from a Pitt was brought ; Reader , take warning by this Pitt , Lest by a Pit you ...
... Ease my passion by your art ; And , in pity to my pain , Mend the hole that's in my heart . EPITAPH ON MR . PITT . HERE lies a Pitt within this Pit , Who from a Pitt was brought ; Reader , take warning by this Pitt , Lest by a Pit you ...
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adieu ANECDOTE beauty blushing bosom brow cat-o'-nine-tails charms cheeks CHURCH-YARD cries dead Dean DEAN SWIFT dear Death Dick drank drink e'er EPIGRAM EPITAPH Erskine ev'ry eyes fair father flow'r FRENCH FRIEND OF HUMANITY give Good-natur'd graces hast heart Heav'n honest honour horses horses teeth ISABELLA jacet John JOHN GILL John Trollop Johnson King Knife-grinder LADY lies the body liv'd live Lord LORD ROCHESTER LORD THURLOW LORD WHARTON lov'd maid Marforio MARRIAGE MARTIAL morn ne'er never night niversity of Gottingen o'er once Ostler paint Parson Phoebus PINDAR poet poor POPE pow'r pray pray'r quoth Reader replied reply'd ROCHESTER SIR JOHN BRIDGEMAN smiles song soon sorrow soul Squire stone SUETONIUS sure sweet SWIFT tell thee There's thing Thomas thou TOM BROWN true Twas Versez wife wine woman youth
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Side 180 - But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm tree stand beside, And behind does an ash tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the water below. A traveller came to the Well of St. Keyne...
Side 101 - Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir, Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers, This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. "Constables came up for to take me into Custody; they took me before the justice; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish-Stocks for a vagrant.
Side 92 - Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause. Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful right, Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife removed so rarely well, There take (says Justice), take ye each a shell.
Side 101 - All in a lawsuit? (Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Side 155 - Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
Side 181 - Keyne,' quoth the Cornish-man, 'many a time Drank of this crystal Well, And before the Angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell. 'If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life.
Side 46 - Immortal Newton never spoke More truth, than here you'll find, Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. '' The picture placed the busts between Gives satire its full strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen. But Folly at full length.
Side 151 - Tis not her air, for sure in that There's nothing more than common ; And all her sense is only chat, Like any other woman. Her voice, her touch, might give th' alarm, 'Twas both perhaps — or neither : In short, 'twas that provoking charm Of Celia all together.
Side 44 - This faded form ! this pallid hue ! ; This blood my veins is clotting in, My years are many — They were few When first I enter'd at the U — — NIVERSITY of Gottingen — — NIVERSITY of Gottingen.
Side 181 - I'll venture my life She has drunk of the Well of St. Keyne ." "I have left a good woman who never was here...