Poems on Several Occasions..Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's-Head over against Katharine-Street in the Strand, and John Barber upon Lambert Hill., 1718 - 506 pages |
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... Youth , and once more to Engage Himself in defending the Liberty of His Countrey . He entred into the Prince of ORANGE'S Intereft ; and carried on His Part of That great En- terprise here in LONDON , and under the Eye of the Court ...
... Youth , and once more to Engage Himself in defending the Liberty of His Countrey . He entred into the Prince of ORANGE'S Intereft ; and carried on His Part of That great En- terprise here in LONDON , and under the Eye of the Court ...
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... Youth carried Him to fome Exceffes : but they were accompanied with a most lively Invention , and true Humour . The little Violences and eafie Mi- stakes of a Night too gayly spent , ( and That too in the Beginning of Life ) were always ...
... Youth carried Him to fome Exceffes : but they were accompanied with a most lively Invention , and true Humour . The little Violences and eafie Mi- stakes of a Night too gayly spent , ( and That too in the Beginning of Life ) were always ...
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... unhurt , divine JORDAIN , XPD oă Thy Work and SENECA's remain , He still has Body , ftill has Soul , And lives and speaks , restor'd and whole . An An O D E. I. WHILE blooming Youth , and 8 POEMS on several OC CA SI O N S.
... unhurt , divine JORDAIN , XPD oă Thy Work and SENECA's remain , He still has Body , ftill has Soul , And lives and speaks , restor'd and whole . An An O D E. I. WHILE blooming Youth , and 8 POEMS on several OC CA SI O N S.
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... Youth flies apace ; As well as CUPID , TIME is blind : Soon must thofe Glories of thy Face The Fate of vulgar Beauty find :) The Thousand Loves , that arm thy potent Eye , Must drop their Quivers , flag their Wings , and die . IV ...
... Youth flies apace ; As well as CUPID , TIME is blind : Soon must thofe Glories of thy Face The Fate of vulgar Beauty find :) The Thousand Loves , that arm thy potent Eye , Must drop their Quivers , flag their Wings , and die . IV ...
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... Youth invites , Obey kind CUPID's present Voice ; Fill ev'ry Sense with foft Delights , And give thy Soul a Loofe to Joys : Let Millions of repeated Bliffes prove , That Thou all Kindness art , and I all Love . VIII ... Be Mine , and ...
... Youth invites , Obey kind CUPID's present Voice ; Fill ev'ry Sense with foft Delights , And give thy Soul a Loofe to Joys : Let Millions of repeated Bliffes prove , That Thou all Kindness art , and I all Love . VIII ... Be Mine , and ...
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Page 423 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 90 - Pointing, the lovely moralist said : See, friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made. Ah me! the blooming pride of May, And that of beauty are but one: At morn both...
Page 352 - To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.
Page 95 - The god of us verse-men (you know Child) the sun, How after his journeys he sets up his rest : If at morning o'er earth 'tis his fancy to run ; At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast.
Page 465 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 465 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Page 22 - IN vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas ! what winds can happy prove, That bear me far from what I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain?
Page 465 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 474 - And apter utensils their place supply. These things and thou must share one equal lot: Die, and be lost, corrupt, and be forgot; While still another, and another race Shall now supply, and now give up the place: From earth all came, to earth must all return; Frail as the cord, and brittle as the urn.
Page 465 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.