The Universal Medley: Containing Selections from the Best English Authors, Translations from the Most Esteemed Italian and French Writers and a Considerable Portion of Original Matter, Volumen1,Temas1-31824 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 19 - You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...
Página 19 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Página 19 - You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's lays, Thinking your passions understood By your weak accents ; what's your praise, When Philomel her voice shall raise? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own; What are you when the rose is blown?
Página 20 - (He opens it, and at one sup Gulps the contested trifle up, And, smiling, gives to each a shell :) " Henceforth let foolish discord cease, Your Oyster's good as e'er was ate ; I thank you for my dainty treat ; God bless you both, and live in peace.
Página 30 - If immediately both of us be taken off, an aged and revered mother, a dear sister, and the most affectionate wife that ever lived, and six children, will be left without protection or provision of any kind. When I address myself to your lordships, it is with the knowledge you will have of all the sons of our aged mother being gone. Two have perished in the service of the king— one very recently. I only request that, disposing of me with what swiftness either the public mind or justice requires,...
Página 62 - For I will for no man's pleasure, Change a syllable or measure. Pedants shall not tie my strains To our antique poets' veins ; Being born as free as these, I will sing as I shall please.
Página 31 - AGAINST THE KING, AND SAT IN JUDGMENT ON HIM ; for his ardent mind Shaped goodliest plans of happiness on earth, And peace and liberty. Wild dreams! but such As Plato loved ; such as with holy zeal Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile From man withheld, even to the latter days When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd!
Página 17 - COLD was the night wind, drifting fast the snow fell, Wide were the downs and shelterless -and naked, When a poor Wanderer struggled on her journey, Weary and way-sore.
Página 29 - I had not this opportunity of renouncing it before your lordships and this auditory, no courage would be sufficient to support me. The accusation, my lords, to which I allude, is one of the blackest kind, and peculiarly painful, because it appears to have been fo nded upon my own act and deed, and to be given under my own hand.
Página 12 - What is the blooming tincture of the skin, To peace of mind and harmony within ? What the bright sparkling of the finest eye, To the soft soothing of a calm reply ? Can comeliness of form, or shape, or air, With comeliness of words or deeds compare ? No : those at first the unwary heart may gain ; But these, these only, can the heart retain.