The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous ... : Drawn from the Life, Volume 2Methuen, 1826 |
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Pagina 10
... turn uncensured to his way ; Polluted streams again are pure , And deepest wounds admit a cure ; But woman no redemption knows- The wounds of honour never close . " MOORE . TREMBLE not , ye fair daughters of chastity ! frown not , ye ...
... turn uncensured to his way ; Polluted streams again are pure , And deepest wounds admit a cure ; But woman no redemption knows- The wounds of honour never close . " MOORE . TREMBLE not , ye fair daughters of chastity ! frown not , ye ...
Pagina 12
... turns on his heel and plays off another battery on the next pretty susceptible piece of enchanting simplicity that accident may throw into his way . " Who is that attractive star before whose in- fluential light he at present seems to ...
... turns on his heel and plays off another battery on the next pretty susceptible piece of enchanting simplicity that accident may throw into his way . " Who is that attractive star before whose in- fluential light he at present seems to ...
Pagina 15
... turns upon the figure , fortune , genius , or generosity of the admiring beaux . To a young and ardent mind , just emerging from scholastic discipline , with feelings uncontaminated by fashion- able levities , and a purse equal to all ...
... turns upon the figure , fortune , genius , or generosity of the admiring beaux . To a young and ardent mind , just emerging from scholastic discipline , with feelings uncontaminated by fashion- able levities , and a purse equal to all ...
Pagina 16
... turn aside to pay devotion at her shrine ? but let the salacious deity of Impurity mount the car of Profligacy , and drive forth in all the glare of crimson and gold , and a thousand devotees are ready to sacrifice their honour upon her ...
... turn aside to pay devotion at her shrine ? but let the salacious deity of Impurity mount the car of Profligacy , and drive forth in all the glare of crimson and gold , and a thousand devotees are ready to sacrifice their honour upon her ...
Pagina 17
... turns aside the shafts of ill - nature ; and had she made her selection more in accordance with propriety , and her own age , she might have escaped our notice ; but , alas ! " said Crony , " she forgets that ' The rose's age is but a ...
... turns aside the shafts of ill - nature ; and had she made her selection more in accordance with propriety , and her own age , she might have escaped our notice ; but , alas ! " said Crony , " she forgets that ' The rose's age is but a ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 270 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Pagina 278 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Pagina 277 - Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like a better way: those happy smilets That play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.