Poetical Vagaries: Containing An Ode to We, a Hackney'd Critick;Low Ambition; Or, The Life and Death of Mr. Daw; A Reckoning with Time; The Lady of the Wreck; Or, Castle Blarneygig; Two Persons; Or, The Tale of a Shirt. And Vagaries Vindicated; a Poem, Address'd to the Reviewers

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 - 217页
 

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第210页 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
第186页 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
第167页 - I'll allow you now to find fault with my face, for I'll swear your impudence has put me out of countenance. But look you here now, where did you lose this gold bodkin? Oh, sister, sister! Mrs. Frail. My bodkin! Mrs. Fore. Nay, 'tis yours, look at it.
第18页 - Then, much in dramas did I look, — Much slighted thee and great Lord Coke : Congreve beat Blackstone hollow ; Shakspeare made all the statutes stale, And in my crown no pleas had Hale To supersede Apollo.
第205页 - It is designed a Character of perfect Simplicity; and as the Goodness of his Heart will recommend him to the Good-natur'd; so I hope it will excuse me to the Gentlemen of his Cloth; for whom, while they are worthy of their sacred Order, no Man can possibly have a greater Respect.
第205页 - I have no intention to vilify or asperse any one ; for though everything is copied from the book of nature, and scarce a character or action produced which I have not taken from my own observations and experience ; yet I have used the utmost care to obscure the persons by such different circumstances, degrees, and...
第18页 - Why did I let the God of song Lure me from law to join his throng, Gull'd by some slight applauses? What's verse to A. when versus B.? Or what John Bull, a comedy, To pleading John Bull's causes?
第20页 - ... to each day that's rough, In hopes of calm to-morrow ; And when, old Mower of us all, Beneath thy sweeping scythe I fall, Some few DEAR FRIENDS will sorrow.
第197页 - I have very little estate, but what lies under the circumference of my hat ; and should I by mischance come to lose my head, I should not be worth a groat ; but I ought to thank Providence that I can by three hours...
第121页 - Would shut up shop, in these our polish' d nations, And have no business to transact, at all ! In such an instance, what, pray, would become Of all our reverend Clergy ? — They would be thought uncommonly hum-drum, And banish'd, in a trice, Who, zealously, for pay, should urge ye Not to be Vicious, if there were no Vice.

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