The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts: In Four [i.e. Five] Volumes, Volumen1A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, J. Rivington, W. Johnston, C. Corbett, J. Dodsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson and J. Roberts, J. Ridley, S. Bladon, and T. Cadell., 1767 |
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Página 211 - How rich the Peacock ! £ what bright glories run From plume to plume, and vary in the sun ! He proudly spreads them, to the golden ray Gives all his colours, and adorns the day ; With conscious state the spacious round displays, And slowly moves amid the waving blaze.
Página 123 - Some ladies' judgment in their features lies, And all their genius sparkles from their eyes. But hold, she cries, Lampooner ! have a care, Must I want common sense because I'm fair ! O no : see Stella ; her eyes shine as bright As if her tongue was never in the right : And yet what real learning, judgment, fire ! She seems...
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Página 151 - Who marry to be free, to range the more, And wed one man, to wanton with a score.
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Página 167 - Of ever losing what she held most dear, How did Britannia, like Achilles, weep, And tell her sorrows to the kindred deep ! Hang o'er the floods, and, in devotion warm, Strive, for thee, with the surge, and fight the storm...
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