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... a Tiberius , a Sejanus ensures the gratifica- tion of his own . Thus it was with Empson and Dudley , the ministers to Henry the Seventh's cupidity . WHAT Whispers must the Beauty bear ! What hourly nonsense 36 FABLE VII .
... a Tiberius , a Sejanus ensures the gratifica- tion of his own . Thus it was with Empson and Dudley , the ministers to Henry the Seventh's cupidity . WHAT Whispers must the Beauty bear ! What hourly nonsense 36 FABLE VII .
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... Beauty bear ! What hourly nonsense haunts her ear ! Where'er her eyes dispense their charms , Impertinence around her swarms . Did not the tender nonsense strike , Contempt and scorn might look dislike ; Forbidding airs might thin the ...
... Beauty bear ! What hourly nonsense haunts her ear ! Where'er her eyes dispense their charms , Impertinence around her swarms . Did not the tender nonsense strike , Contempt and scorn might look dislike ; Forbidding airs might thin the ...
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... beauty , She now was pensive , now was gay , And loll'd the sultry hours away . As thus in indolence she lies , A giddy Wasp around her flies ; He now advances , now retires , Now to her neck and cheek aspires . Her fan in vain defends ...
... beauty , She now was pensive , now was gay , And loll'd the sultry hours away . As thus in indolence she lies , A giddy Wasp around her flies ; He now advances , now retires , Now to her neck and cheek aspires . Her fan in vain defends ...
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... The critic having completed the task with great industry and pleasure , Apollo presented him with , -- the chaff for his trouble ! " DUNCIAD POPE BY IN beauty , faults conspicuous grow ; The smallest speck FABLE X. 45.
... The critic having completed the task with great industry and pleasure , Apollo presented him with , -- the chaff for his trouble ! " DUNCIAD POPE BY IN beauty , faults conspicuous grow ; The smallest speck FABLE X. 45.
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... beauty , faults conspicuous grow ; The smallest speck is seen on snow . As near a barn , by hunger led , A Peacock with the poultry fed , All view'd him with an envious eye , And mock'd his gaudy pageantry . He , conscious of superior ...
... beauty , faults conspicuous grow ; The smallest speck is seen on snow . As near a barn , by hunger led , A Peacock with the poultry fed , All view'd him with an envious eye , And mock'd his gaudy pageantry . He , conscious of superior ...
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Page xvi - Life is a Jest, and all Things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Page 7 - The daily labours of the BEE Awake my soul to industry. Who can observe the careful ANT, And not provide for future want ? My DOG (the trustiest of his kind) With gratitude inflames my mind. I mark his true, his faithful way, And in my service copy TRAY.
Page 153 - Tis thus in friendships; who depend On many, rarely find a friend. A hare, who in a civil way, Complied with everything, like Gay, Was known by all the bestial train Who haunt the wood, or graze the plain. Her care was never to offend, And every creature was her friend. As forth she went at early dawn, To taste the dew-besprinkled lawn, Behind she hears the hunter's cries, And from the deep-mouthed thunder flies.
Page 110 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks: Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
Page 8 - But, possessing all that I can want, I find one day and one hour exactly like another, except that the latter is still more tedious than the former. Let your experience inform me how the day may now...
Page 114 - THE TURKEY AND THE ANT. In other men we faults can spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye, Each little speck and blemish find, To our own stronger errors blind. A turkey, tired of common food, Forsook the barn, and sought the wood; Behind her ran her infant train, Collecting here and there a grain. 'Draw near, my birds,' the mother cries, This hill delicious fare supplies; Behold, the busy negro race, See, millions blacken all the place!
Page 73 - There in a gloomy hollow glen she found A little cottage, built of stickes and reedes In homely wize, and ,wald with sods around...
Page 252 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 76 - His now forgotten friend, a snail, Beneath his house, with slimy trail, Crawls o'er the grass ; whom when he spies, In wrath he to the...
Page 17 - The woman's blind," the Mother cries, "I see wit sparkle in his eyes." "Lord, Madam, what a squinting leer! No doubt the Fairy hath been here.