The Poetical Works of the Right Honourable Lady M-y W-y M--e

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J. Tonson, J. Hodges, J. Wren, and A. Millar, 1781 - 180 עמודים
 

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עמוד 19 - No, I'm unhappy — you are in the right—— 'Tis you they favour, and 'tis me they flight. Yet I could tell, but that I hate to boaft, A club of ladies where 'tis me they toaft. PATCH. Toafting does feldom any favour prove ; Like us, they never toaft the thing they love. A certain duke one night my health begun ; With chearful pledges round the room it run, 'Till the young SYLVIA, prefs'd to drink it too, Started and vow'd...
עמוד 22 - tis not yet too dark ; In her all beauties of the fpring are feen, Her cheeks are rofy, and her mantle green. PATCH. See, TINTORETTA to the opera goes ! Hafte, or the crowd will not permit our bows ; In her the glory of the heav'ns we view, Her eyes are ftar-like, and her mantle blue.
עמוד 57 - And orerfeen the card he would have play'd. * The bold and haughty by fuccefs made vain, Aw'd by my eyes, have trembled to complain : The bafhful 'Squire touch'd by A.
עמוד 89 - Arthur's fate : Enough you give, nor ought I to complain ; "You pay my pangs, nor have I dy'd in vain.
עמוד 68 - Nor only justice vainly we demand, But even benefits can't rein thy hand; To this or that alike in vain we trust, Nor find thee less ungrateful than unjust.
עמוד 30 - Yet to preferve your heart (which ftill muft be, Falfe as it is, for ever dear to me) This fatal proof of love I would not give, Which you'd contemn the moment you receive. The wretched fhe, who yields to guilty joys, A man may pity, but he muft defpife.
עמוד 130 - No pedant, yet learned ; no rake-helly gay, Or laughing, because he has nothing to say ; To all my whole sex obliging and free, Yet never be fond of any but me ; In public preserve the decorum that's just, And shew in his eyes he is true to his trust.
עמוד 10 - I've sacrificed both modesty and ease; Left operas, and went to filthy plays : Double-entendres shock'd my tender ear; Yet even this, for thee, I choose to bear : In glowing youth, when nature bids be gay, And every joy of life before me lay; By honour prompted, and by pride restrain'd, The pleasures of the young my soul disdain'd : Sermons I sought, and with a mien severe, Censured my neighbours, and said daily prayer.
עמוד 69 - tis as fair to beat who cannot fight, As 'tis to libel those who cannot write. And if thou draw'st thy pen to aid the law, Others a cudgel, or a rod, may draw. If none with vengeance yet thy crimes pursue, Or give thy manifold affronts their due ; If limbs unbroken, skin without a stain, Unwhipt, unblanketed, unkick'd, unslain, That wretched little carcase you retain, The reason is, not that the world wants eyes, But thou'rt so mean, they see, and they despise...
עמוד 10 - Was it for this that I thefe rofes wear, " For this new-fet the jewels for my hair ? VOL. I. G "Ah! " Ah ! princefs ! with what zeal have I purfu'd ! " Almoft forgot the duty of a prude. " Thinking I never could attend too foon, " I've mifs'd my prayers, to get me drefs'd by noon.

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