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... much sense to pray : To toast our wants and wishes is her way ; Nor asks of
God , but of her Stars , to give The mighty blessing while we live to live . ' 90 Then
all for death , that opiate of the soul ! Lucretia ' s dagger , Rosamunda ' s bowl .
... much sense to pray : To toast our wants and wishes is her way ; Nor asks of
God , but of her Stars , to give The mighty blessing while we live to live . ' 90 Then
all for death , that opiate of the soul ! Lucretia ' s dagger , Rosamunda ' s bowl .
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261 ( To live and die is all I have to do ; ) Maintain a poet ' s dignity and ease ,
And see what friends , and read what books , I please ; Above a patron , though I
condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend . I was not born for courts
...
261 ( To live and die is all I have to do ; ) Maintain a poet ' s dignity and ease ,
And see what friends , and read what books , I please ; Above a patron , though I
condescend 265 Sometimes to call a minister my friend . I was not born for courts
...
Página 151
Yes , while I live , no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world in credit to his
grave : To Virtue only , and her friends a friend , The world beside may murmur or
commend . Know all the distant din that world can keep , Rolls o ' er my grotto ,
and ...
Yes , while I live , no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world in credit to his
grave : To Virtue only , and her friends a friend , The world beside may murmur or
commend . Know all the distant din that world can keep , Rolls o ' er my grotto ,
and ...
Página 154
Let me extol a cat on oysters fed , I ' ll have a party at the Bedford - head ; Or ev ' n
to crack live crawfish recommend ; I ' d never doubt at court to make a friend . ' Tis
yet in vain , I own , to keep a pother About one vice , and fall into the other ...
Let me extol a cat on oysters fed , I ' ll have a party at the Bedford - head ; Or ev ' n
to crack live crawfish recommend ; I ' d never doubt at court to make a friend . ' Tis
yet in vain , I own , to keep a pother About one vice , and fall into the other ...
Página 223
Here a lean bard , whose wit could never give Himself a dinner , makes an actor
live : The thief condemn ' d , in law already dead , So prompts , and saves , a
rogue who cannot read . Thus as the pipes of some carv ' d organ move , The
gilded ...
Here a lean bard , whose wit could never give Himself a dinner , makes an actor
live : The thief condemn ' d , in law already dead , So prompts , and saves , a
rogue who cannot read . Thus as the pipes of some carv ' d organ move , The
gilded ...
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Página 134 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 127 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Página 134 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Página 133 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Página 138 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Página 128 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 38 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
Página 127 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Página 131 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Página 172 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.