The British Martial: Or, An Anthology of English Epigrams: Being the Largest Collection Ever Published. With Some Originals, Volume 1R. Phillips, 1806 |
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... passion does fly ; O bring her , kind Venus ! bring her here back again , And the best of my heifers on thy altar lies slain : But if she's appcas'd , if to love she incline , Take all my whole herd , and my herd is all thine . XV . THE ...
... passion does fly ; O bring her , kind Venus ! bring her here back again , And the best of my heifers on thy altar lies slain : But if she's appcas'd , if to love she incline , Take all my whole herd , and my herd is all thine . XV . THE ...
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... passion , aw'd by rumour , Not grave through pride , nor gay through folly , An equal mixture of good humour , And sensible , soft melancholy . Has she no faults then , Malice says , Yes , she has one , I must aver ; Sir ? When all the ...
... passion , aw'd by rumour , Not grave through pride , nor gay through folly , An equal mixture of good humour , And sensible , soft melancholy . Has she no faults then , Malice says , Yes , she has one , I must aver ; Sir ? When all the ...
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... streams she mourns , Like twenty river gods with all their urns . Let others screw a hypocritic face , She shews her grief in a sincerer place ! Here Nature reigns , and passion void of art ; D 2 35 Till Bacchus, jolly god, appears, ...
... streams she mourns , Like twenty river gods with all their urns . Let others screw a hypocritic face , She shews her grief in a sincerer place ! Here Nature reigns , and passion void of art ; D 2 35 Till Bacchus, jolly god, appears, ...
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... passion void of art ; For that road leads directly to the heart . LXXIX . THE REMEMBRANCER . Chloe her gossips entertains , With stories of her childbed - pains . And fiercely against Hymen rails ; But Hymen's not so much to blame ; She ...
... passion void of art ; For that road leads directly to the heart . LXXIX . THE REMEMBRANCER . Chloe her gossips entertains , With stories of her childbed - pains . And fiercely against Hymen rails ; But Hymen's not so much to blame ; She ...
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... passion by your art ; And , in pity to my pain , Mend the hole that's in my heart . CXLI . SILENCE IS SAFEST . Young Courtly takes me for a dunce , For all night long I spoke but once ; On better grounds I think him such— He spoke but ...
... passion by your art ; And , in pity to my pain , Mend the hole that's in my heart . CXLI . SILENCE IS SAFEST . Young Courtly takes me for a dunce , For all night long I spoke but once ; On better grounds I think him such— He spoke but ...
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