Comus, a MaskBell, 1797 - 66 pages |
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... head , than the lining ! Why , what the devil ! has not your poverty made you enemies enough ? must you needs shew your wit to get more ? Jer . Ay , more indeed : for who cares for any body that has more wit than himself ? Scand ...
... head , than the lining ! Why , what the devil ! has not your poverty made you enemies enough ? must you needs shew your wit to get more ? Jer . Ay , more indeed : for who cares for any body that has more wit than himself ? Scand ...
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... head ; And when the head is set in ground , No mar'l , if it be fruitful found . Fruitful , the head fruitful : that bodes horns ; the fruit of the head is horns ; Dear niece , stay at home -for by the head of the house is meant the hus ...
... head ; And when the head is set in ground , No mar'l , if it be fruitful found . Fruitful , the head fruitful : that bodes horns ; the fruit of the head is horns ; Dear niece , stay at home -for by the head of the house is meant the hus ...
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... head , to communicate to you . [ Exeunt Scandal and Valentine .. Sir S. What is my son Valentine gone ? What ! is he sneaked off , and would not see his brother There's an unnatural whelp ! there's an ill - natured dog ! What ! were you ...
... head , to communicate to you . [ Exeunt Scandal and Valentine .. Sir S. What is my son Valentine gone ? What ! is he sneaked off , and would not see his brother There's an unnatural whelp ! there's an ill - natured dog ! What ! were you ...
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... doubt that , if you were mas- ter of me . Ben . But I'll tell you one thing , an you come to sea in a high wind , or that lady - you mayn't carry so G much sail o'your head - Top and top gallant , A & III . 69 LOVE FOR LOVE .
... doubt that , if you were mas- ter of me . Ben . But I'll tell you one thing , an you come to sea in a high wind , or that lady - you mayn't carry so G much sail o'your head - Top and top gallant , A & III . 69 LOVE FOR LOVE .
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John Milton. much sail o'your head - Top and top gallant , by the mess ! Mrs. F. No ? why so ? Ben . Why , an you do , you may run the risk to be overset : and then you'll carry your keels above wa- ter - he , he , he ! Ang . I swear ...
John Milton. much sail o'your head - Top and top gallant , by the mess ! Mrs. F. No ? why so ? Ben . Why , an you do , you may run the risk to be overset : and then you'll carry your keels above wa- ter - he , he , he ! Ang . I swear ...
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Page viii - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 37 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Page 44 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page ix - But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page xl - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page i - My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss.
Page 43 - All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring; The Graces and the rosy-bosom'd Hours Thither all their bounties bring...
Page 32 - Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.
Page 15 - Lungs ! — my only care is, Where to get stuff enough now, to project on ; This town will not half serve me. Face. No, sir ! buy The covering off o
Page ix - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.