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... heart , Before he can be laid : He gets not back againe to hell , Ere I my mony have And I will have some intrest too , Besides mine own I gave . Deliver first mine owne ten groats , And then a crowne to boote : I smell your devils ...
... heart , Before he can be laid : He gets not back againe to hell , Ere I my mony have And I will have some intrest too , Besides mine own I gave . Deliver first mine owne ten groats , And then a crowne to boote : I smell your devils ...
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... heart ? O base , no more , sweet , lend me part ! " But stay , my frighted pen is fled ; Myself through fear creep under bed ; For just as Muse would scribble more , Fierce city dunne did rap at door . EPIGRAM . [ FROM ROWLAND'S ...
... heart ? O base , no more , sweet , lend me part ! " But stay , my frighted pen is fled ; Myself through fear creep under bed ; For just as Muse would scribble more , Fierce city dunne did rap at door . EPIGRAM . [ FROM ROWLAND'S ...
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... hearts according to their hair ; That could afford to doubt , who wrote best sense , Moses , or Dod on the commandments ; . She that can sigh , and cry " Queen Elizabeth , " Rail at the Pope , and scratch - out " sudden death : " And ...
... hearts according to their hair ; That could afford to doubt , who wrote best sense , Moses , or Dod on the commandments ; . She that can sigh , and cry " Queen Elizabeth , " Rail at the Pope , and scratch - out " sudden death : " And ...
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... wanton maid With my restless heart had play'd , Martha took the flying ball . A Lover's Chronicle . ( Though loth and angry she. Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine . Beauteous Catharine gave place A FRAGMENT OF SCIENCE .
... wanton maid With my restless heart had play'd , Martha took the flying ball . A Lover's Chronicle . ( Though loth and angry she. Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine . Beauteous Catharine gave place A FRAGMENT OF SCIENCE .
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... heart ) To Eliza's conquering face . Eliza till this hour might reign , Had she not evil counsels ta'en . Fundamental laws she broke , And still new favourites she chose , Till up in arms my passions rose , And cast away her yoke . Mary ...
... heart ) To Eliza's conquering face . Eliza till this hour might reign , Had she not evil counsels ta'en . Fundamental laws she broke , And still new favourites she chose , Till up in arms my passions rose , And cast away her yoke . Mary ...
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Page 32 - Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly ; ) But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
Page 254 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start, For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore. And spring and axle and hub encore. And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt In another hour it will be worn out!
Page 253 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Page 213 - So when they'd made their game of her, And taken off her elf, She roused, and found she only was A coming to herself. " And is he gone, and is he gone ? " She cried, and wept outright : " Then I will to the water side, And see him out of sight.
Page 34 - Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt; Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to one He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down; For he had any time this ten years full Dodged with him betwixt Cambridge and The Bull...
Page 69 - Tis a stranger sues, A virgin tragedy, an orphan Muse." If I dislike it, "Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Page 252 - He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the
Page 218 - For ennui is a growth of English root, Though nameless in our language : — we retort The fact for words, and let the French translate That awful yawn which sleep cannot abate.
Page 117 - I'll eat him." He said : then full before their sight Produced the beast, and lo! — 'twas white. Both stared, the man looked wondrous wise — "My children," the chameleon cries, (Then first the creature found a tongue), "You all are right, and all are wrong: When next you talk of what you view, Think others see as well as you: Nor wonder, if you find that none Prefers your eyesight to his own.
Page 68 - All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain.