Poems and PlaysDent, 1910 - 317 pages |
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Page 12
... fools impart ; Here vanity assumes her pert grimace , And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace ; Here beggar pride defrauds her daily cheer , To boast one splendid banquet once a year ; The mind still turns where shifting fashion ...
... fools impart ; Here vanity assumes her pert grimace , And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace ; Here beggar pride defrauds her daily cheer , To boast one splendid banquet once a year ; The mind still turns where shifting fashion ...
Page 28
... fools , who came to scoff , remain'd to pray . The service pass'd , around the pious man , With steady zeal , each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile , And pluck'd his gown , to share the good man's smile ...
... fools , who came to scoff , remain'd to pray . The service pass'd , around the pious man , With steady zeal , each honest rustic ran ; Even children follow'd with endearing wile , And pluck'd his gown , to share the good man's smile ...
Page 37
... fool . At a dinner so various , at such a repast , Who'd not be a glutton , and stick to the last ? Here , waiter ! more wine , let me sit while I'm able , Till all my companions sink under the table ; Then , with chaos and blunders ...
... fool . At a dinner so various , at such a repast , Who'd not be a glutton , and stick to the last ? Here , waiter ! more wine , let me sit while I'm able , Till all my companions sink under the table ; Then , with chaos and blunders ...
Page 39
... fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings , that folly grows proud ; And coxcombs , alike in their failings alone , Adopting his portraits , are pleas'd with their own . Say , where has our poet this malady ...
... fools have their follies so lost in a crowd Of virtues and feelings , that folly grows proud ; And coxcombs , alike in their failings alone , Adopting his portraits , are pleas'd with their own . Say , where has our poet this malady ...
Page 87
... fools pursuing , and of fools pursu'd ! Whose ins and outs no ray of sense discloses , Whose only plot it is to break our noses ; Whilst from below the trap - door Demons rise , And from above the dangling deities ; And shall I mix in ...
... fools pursuing , and of fools pursu'd ! Whose ins and outs no ray of sense discloses , Whose only plot it is to break our noses ; Whilst from below the trap - door Demons rise , And from above the dangling deities ; And shall I mix in ...
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