The works of the English poets Volume 40, p. 2; With prefaces, biographical and critical - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1779 Excerpt: ...In line direft hung down behind; The owl, the raven, and the bat, Clubb'd for a feather to his hat; His coat, an ufurer's velvet pall, Bequeath'd to Pluto, corpfe and all. But,-loth liis perfon to expofe Bare, like a carcafe pickt by crows, A lawyer o'er his hands and face Stuck artfully a parchment-cafe.' No new-fluxt rake fliew'd fairer fkin; Nor Phyllis after lying-in. »---' ".Wot, II. 'O Witji With fnuff was fill'd tits eboa box Of ftin-tiones rotted by the pox. Nine fpirits of blafpheming fops With aconite anoint his chops; And give him wojds of dreadful founds, G--d J--n his blood! and b--d and w--ds! Thus furnifli'd out. he fent his train To take a houfe in Warwick-laat: 1"x faaihy, ht» humble friends, A complimental meflage fends: Their prefident in fcarlet gown Harangued, and welcom'd him to town. But Death li.ad bufuiefs to difpatch; Mis mind was running on his match. And, hearing much of Daphne's fame, His tnaitjiji of terrori came, Fine as a colonel of the guards, To vifit where flie f«e at cards: She, as he came into the Doom, Thought him Adoni,m his bloom. And now her heart with pleafure jumps; She fcarce remembers what is trumps; For fuch a fhape.of-fkin and, bone Was never fc;:,n, except her, Qwjx: Charm'd with his eyes, odJ«a, ami Tnouf, Her pocket-glafs drew flily our; And grew enamoured witlj her phiz, As juft the counterpart of his. She darted many a-private glance, And freely made the fuft ativunce; DAPHNE. TAAPHNE knows, with equal eafe,--How to vex and how to pleafe; But the folly of her fex Makes her fole delight to vex. Never woman more devis'd Surer w.ays to be defpis'd: Paradoxes weakly wielding, Always conquer'd, never yielding. To difpute, her chief delight, With not one opinion right: Thick her arg...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236216571
- ISBN 13 9781236216571
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages80
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