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J. Pemberton, 1714 - 26 стор.
 

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Сторінка 89 - She could dote on fo lowly a clown, Or that her fond heart would not grieve, To forfake the fine folk of the town ; To think that a beauty fo gay, So kind and fo...
Сторінка 235 - On life or death, a prison or a crown. When bound in double chains poor Belgia lay...
Сторінка 227 - Patient of fummer's drought, and martial fweat; And only grieve in winter's camps to find Its days too fhort for labours they defign'd: All night beneath hard heavy arms to watch; All day to mount the trench, to florin the breach; And all the rugged paths to tread, Where William and his virtue lead.
Сторінка 12 - Very good, Miftrefs. And if it be a Folly in him to marry a Woman that he does not love, was it not a Folly in you to marry a Man without knowing firft whether he loved you or no ? VOL.
Сторінка 11 - Happinefs is little more than this, this, I that am the Fool, come to her when I will, ftay with her as long as I will, and command her as I will; while this wife Gentleman is waiting a frofty Night under her Window, breaking his Brains for Songs and Billets for her ; bribing her Women, lofing his Reft, and venturing the being abufed, kicked down Stairs, and having his Throat cut whenever he happens to be found out.
Сторінка 88 - And while a falfe nymph was his theme, A willow fupported his head. The wind that blew over the plain, To his fighs with a figh did reply ; And the brook, in return to his pain, Ran mournfully murmuring by.
Сторінка 7 - Pleafure, to lay up Wealth, which we are to make Ufe of in an Age when we are not capable of any Pleafure at all. But this old Man, who has the Confidence to accufe me, does ten times worfe. He did not only heap up Wealth all his Youth, but he continues to do fo ftill ; and though his Age, and the Infirmities of his Body...
Сторінка 25 - Meflenger, halte away to Jupiter, inform him of what we have done, and know his further Pleafure in the Matter : You may tell him, that upon a full Survey of Mankind it appears, that every one has fuch a fufficient Share of Folly, that he has no Reafon at all to complain of his Neighbours having more. That in Anfwer to thofe who think their Folly...
Сторінка 10 - Buftle he could find out nothing that really made againft her, yet he has caft her off with Infamy and Shame, chiefly indeed to himfelf, for ufing a Woman ill who never gave him Occafion for it. If there be fo many...
Сторінка 8 - How, Friend ! Does that Man's being a Fool hinder you from being a Fool too. If it be a Folly in him to heap up Money that he can never probably live...

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