Poems Upon Several OccasionsJ. Tonson, 1712 - 267 páginas |
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Página 80 - Early, and vain, into the world I came. Big with false hopes, and eager after fame ; Till looking round me, ere the race began, Madmen, and giddy fools, were all that ran ; Reclaim'd betimes, I from the lists retire, And thank the gods, who my retreat inspire.
Página 90 - Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With Virtue to defend her? But Nature, graciously inclin'd With liberal hand to please us.
Página 13 - Beauty, and so wide the fame, Which, like our flag upon the seas, gives law By right avow'd, and keeps the world in awe. Our gallant kings, of whom...
Página 134 - At vaft expence we labour to our ruin, And court your favour with our own undoing ; A war of profit mitigates the evil, But to be tax'd and beaten — is the devil. How was the...
Página 77 - How short is life? why will vain courtiers toil, and crowd a vainer monarch, for a smile? •what is that monarch, but a mortal man, his crown a pageant, and his life a span ? with all his guards and his dominions, he must sicken too, and die as well as we.
Página 82 - The honeft man, who ftarves and 'is undone, Not fortune, but his virtue keeps him down. Had Cato bent beneath the conquering caufe, He might have liv'd to give new Senates laws ; But on vile terms difdaining to be great, He perifh'd by his choice, and not his fate. Honours and life, th...
Página 11 - To thee alone such tender tasks belong. From Greece to Afric, Beauty takes her flight, And ripens with her near approach to light: Frown not, ye fair, to hear of...
Página 7 - Prometheus' side His bloody beak, with his torn liver dy'd, Is Love. The stone that labours up the hill, Mocking the labourer's toil returning still, Is Love. Those streams where Tantalus is curst To sit, and never drink, with endless thirst : Those loaden boughs that with their burthen bend To court his taste, and yet escape his hand, All this is Love, that to dissembled joys Invites vain men, with real grief destroys.
Página 5 - HEROES of old, by rapine, and by spoil, In search of fame, did all the world embroil ; Thus to their gods each then ally'd his name, This sprang from Jove, and that from Titan came: With equal valour, and the same success, Dread king, might'st thou the universe oppress ; Hut Christian laws constrain thy.
Página 179 - Tis now become a crime to mention love. Our holy men interpreting the voice Of Heaven in wrath, forewarn th ill-omen'd choice.