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... Lady Suffolk in a wood at Stowe " : Her wit and beauty for a court were made : But truth and goodness fit her for a shade . And how elegant this address of Horace Walpole " To Madame du Chatelet , when on a visit at Strawberry Hill ...
... Lady Suffolk in a wood at Stowe " : Her wit and beauty for a court were made : But truth and goodness fit her for a shade . And how elegant this address of Horace Walpole " To Madame du Chatelet , when on a visit at Strawberry Hill ...
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... Lady Charlotte Gordon ; dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet with Plumes , & c . , " the last stanza of which may be compared with these Greek epigrams : The plumy helmet and the martial mien , Might dignify Minerva's awful charms ; But ...
... Lady Charlotte Gordon ; dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet with Plumes , & c . , " the last stanza of which may be compared with these Greek epigrams : The plumy helmet and the martial mien , Might dignify Minerva's awful charms ; But ...
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... lady to " smile if she be wise , " and Martial , adverting to this , recommends a contrary practice to maids who ... ladies laugh , Spoke only to the young and fair : For thee his counsel were not safe , Who of sound teeth have scarce a ...
... lady to " smile if she be wise , " and Martial , adverting to this , recommends a contrary practice to maids who ... ladies laugh , Spoke only to the young and fair : For thee his counsel were not safe , Who of sound teeth have scarce a ...
Page 85
... Lady's album " : Lie here embalm'd , from age to age ; This is the album's noblest page , Though every glowing leaf be fraught With painting , poetry , and thought ; Where tracks of mortal hands are seen , A hand invisible hath been ...
... Lady's album " : Lie here embalm'd , from age to age ; This is the album's noblest page , Though every glowing leaf be fraught With painting , poetry , and thought ; Where tracks of mortal hands are seen , A hand invisible hath been ...
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... lady desig- nated " ugly . " Had it been one of her own sex , the epithet would have been unpardonable , according to the following anecdote . Two French ladies had a violent quarrel . As it proved inconvenient , a gentleman , a mutual ...
... lady desig- nated " ugly . " Had it been one of her own sex , the epithet would have been unpardonable , according to the following anecdote . Two French ladies had a violent quarrel . As it proved inconvenient , a gentleman , a mutual ...
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Page 561 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 34 - Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there, for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore...
Page 267 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 191 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 213 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 16 - Romeo : and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 166 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye.
Page 50 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 126 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 218 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.