Anthologia: A Collection of Epigrams, Ludicrous Epitaphs, Sonnets, Tales, Miscellaneous Anecdotes, &c. &c., Interspersed with OriginalsC. Spilsbury and sold by S. Highley, 1807 - 184 pagina's |
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Pagina 16
... church in barren land ; Nor ever thought it worth the while A Swede or Russ to reconcile : For , where there is no store of wealth , Souls are not worth the charge of health . Spain in America had two designs , To sell her gospel for ...
... church in barren land ; Nor ever thought it worth the while A Swede or Russ to reconcile : For , where there is no store of wealth , Souls are not worth the charge of health . Spain in America had two designs , To sell her gospel for ...
Pagina 29
... church , to one he's ty'd , Then for his soul he cannot her abyde : Thus when a dogge first lighteth on a bone , His tayle he waggeth , gladde thereof y grown ; But if thilke bone unto his tayle you tie , Pardie , he feareth it , awaie ...
... church , to one he's ty'd , Then for his soul he cannot her abyde : Thus when a dogge first lighteth on a bone , His tayle he waggeth , gladde thereof y grown ; But if thilke bone unto his tayle you tie , Pardie , he feareth it , awaie ...
Pagina 38
... CHURCH .. HERE Stand I , for whores as great To cast a scornful eye on ; Should each whore here be doom'd a sheet , You'd soon want one to lie on . EPITAPH , IN GUILDFORD CHURCH - YARD . READER , 38.
... CHURCH .. HERE Stand I , for whores as great To cast a scornful eye on ; Should each whore here be doom'd a sheet , You'd soon want one to lie on . EPITAPH , IN GUILDFORD CHURCH - YARD . READER , 38.
Pagina 39
... CHURCH - YARD . READER , pass on , ne'er waste your time On bad biography , and bitter rhyme ; For what I am this cumb'rous clay insures , And what I was - is no affair of yours . ANOTHER , IN CURRY CHURCH - YARD , NEAR EDINBURGH , ON A ...
... CHURCH - YARD . READER , pass on , ne'er waste your time On bad biography , and bitter rhyme ; For what I am this cumb'rous clay insures , And what I was - is no affair of yours . ANOTHER , IN CURRY CHURCH - YARD , NEAR EDINBURGH , ON A ...
Pagina 42
... CHURCH - YARD . WOMAN . GRIEVE not for me , my husband dear , I am not dead , but sleepeth here ; With patience wait , prepare to die , And in a short time you'll come to I. MAN . I am not griev'd , my dearest life ; Sleep on , I've got ...
... CHURCH - YARD . WOMAN . GRIEVE not for me , my husband dear , I am not dead , but sleepeth here ; With patience wait , prepare to die , And in a short time you'll come to I. MAN . I am not griev'd , my dearest life ; Sleep on , I've got ...
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adieu ANECDOTE beauty blushing bosom brow cat-o'-nine-tails charms cheeks CHURCH-YARD cries dead Dean DEAN SWIFT dear Death Dick drank drink e'er EPIGRAM EPITAPH Erskine ev'ry eyes fair father flow'r FRENCH FRIEND OF HUMANITY give Good-natur'd graces hast heart Heav'n honest honour horses horses teeth ISABELLA jacet John JOHN GILL John Trollop Johnson King Knife-grinder LADY lies the body liv'd live Lord LORD ROCHESTER LORD THURLOW LORD WHARTON lov'd maid Marforio MARRIAGE MARTIAL morn ne'er never night niversity of Gottingen o'er once Ostler paint Parson Phoebus PINDAR poet poor POPE pow'r pray pray'r quoth Reader replied reply'd ROCHESTER SIR JOHN BRIDGEMAN smiles song soon sorrow soul Squire stone SUETONIUS sure sweet SWIFT tell thee There's thing Thomas thou TOM BROWN true Twas Versez wife wine woman youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 180 - But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm tree stand beside, And behind does an ash tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the water below. A traveller came to the Well of St. Keyne...
Pagina 101 - Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir, Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers, This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. "Constables came up for to take me into Custody; they took me before the justice; Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish-Stocks for a vagrant.
Pagina 92 - Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause. Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful right, Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife removed so rarely well, There take (says Justice), take ye each a shell.
Pagina 101 - All in a lawsuit? (Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Pagina 155 - Flavia the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ. This Fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she, with such an air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow ; Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
Pagina 181 - Keyne,' quoth the Cornish-man, 'many a time Drank of this crystal Well, And before the Angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell. 'If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life.
Pagina 46 - Immortal Newton never spoke More truth, than here you'll find, Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. '' The picture placed the busts between Gives satire its full strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen. But Folly at full length.
Pagina 151 - Tis not her air, for sure in that There's nothing more than common ; And all her sense is only chat, Like any other woman. Her voice, her touch, might give th' alarm, 'Twas both perhaps — or neither : In short, 'twas that provoking charm Of Celia all together.
Pagina 44 - This faded form ! this pallid hue ! ; This blood my veins is clotting in, My years are many — They were few When first I enter'd at the U — — NIVERSITY of Gottingen — — NIVERSITY of Gottingen.
Pagina 181 - I'll venture my life She has drunk of the Well of St. Keyne ." "I have left a good woman who never was here...