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" Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind. "
The Works of the English Poets: Prior - Page 136
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, Volume 15

John Wesley - 1812 - 448 pages
...the moral, both of one and the other, may be of excellent use : particularly that of the latter : " Be to her virtues very kind : Be to her faults a little...unconfin'd, And clap your padlock — on her mind." 8. But " his amorous effusions have neither gallantry, nor tenderness. They are the dull exercises...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...charms j fl'u't on her to the Park and play ; Put on good-humour ; make her gay ; Ee to her virtues Tery us mould whereon we stand, This continent of spacious...adorn'd With plant, fruit, flower ambrosial, gems, " A SONG. Ir wine and music have the power To ease the sickness of the soul, Let Phoebus every string...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 4

John Aikin - 1821 - 364 pages
...behold the frantic scene, The women wretched, false the men : And when, these certain ills to shun, She would to thy embraces run ; Receive her with extended...unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind." A SONG. Ir wine and music have the power To ease the sickness of the soul, Let Phoebus every string...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...She would to thy embraees run ; Reeeive her with extended arms, Seem more delighted with her eharms ; rive, unmindful of thy prayers. Where wilt thou turn...pressing spokes are nigh. So sailors, while Charybd uneonfin'd ; And elap your padloek — on her mind. HANS CARVEL. HANS Carvel, impotent and old, Married...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...Wait on her lo the Park nnd play ; Put on good-humor; make her gay; Be to lier virtues very kiml ; rdent with contending yontb ; Her streets, her temples, palaces, and baths, Full of fair forms, of beaut A SONG. IF wine and music have the power To еаяе the sickness of the soul, Let Phœbus every string...
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Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 4

Henry Grattan - 1842 - 490 pages
...disdain, on the same occasion , to repeat in the House of Commons (or Lords) from a burletta song — " Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind, And hang the padlock on the mind." Belfast, March 29, 1797. MR. FOX TO MH. GRATTAN. South-street, April!,...
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James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests, and maintains the past." Put on good humour, make her gay, Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her...be unconfin'd, And clap your padlock on her mind.'* 1 Lady M. \V. Montague. '-' Pope (Letter to Mrs. Arabella Fermor). ;1 Pope (Miscellanies). 4 Prior....
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...extended anus. Seem more delighted with her charms : Wait on her to the Park and play ; Put on good-humor; hough chang'd in outward lustre, that fix'd mind,...with the Mightiest rais'd me to contend, And to t A SONG. IF wine and music have the power To ease the sickness of the soul, Let Phoebus every string...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 13

1843 - 534 pages
...apostasy) — they seem to act upon the maxims of conjugal union recommended to a husband by Swift — " Be to her virtues very kind — Be to her faults a little blind." Now it is not difficult to foresee that a violent reaction will, as usual, be the consequence of these...
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Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 4

Henry Grattan - 1849 - 494 pages
...disdain, on the same occasion , to repeat in the House of Commons (or Lords) from a burletta song — " Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind, And hang the padlock on the mind." Belfast, March 29, 1797. MR. FOX TO MR. GRATTAN. South-street, April!,...
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