The Student, Or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany. Vol. I.[-II.].Christopher Smart J. Newbery in St. Paul's Church Yard, London; J. Barrett in Oxford; and J. Merrill in Cambridge., 1750 - College students' writings, English |
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... See , blazing fires from hapless Ilion rife , While clouds of circling fmoke obfcure the skies . O dire distress ! why only am I left , Of children , parents , brethren , all bereft ? Why thus referv'd a prey to proud domain , Far hence ...
... See , blazing fires from hapless Ilion rife , While clouds of circling fmoke obfcure the skies . O dire distress ! why only am I left , Of children , parents , brethren , all bereft ? Why thus referv'd a prey to proud domain , Far hence ...
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... Seeing the LADIES at CRUX - EUSTON WALK in the WOODS by the GROTTO . A Extempore by Mr. POPE . UTHORS the world and their dull brains have trac'd , To fix the ground where paradife was plac'd . Mind not their learned whims and idle talk ...
... Seeing the LADIES at CRUX - EUSTON WALK in the WOODS by the GROTTO . A Extempore by Mr. POPE . UTHORS the world and their dull brains have trac'd , To fix the ground where paradife was plac'd . Mind not their learned whims and idle talk ...
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... seeing what weather it was . The Lady drew back , and after a filence of a few moments told him with a figh , she un- derstood him very well ; but that he had ask'd her the only thing fhe could have refused him . An acknowledgment like ...
... seeing what weather it was . The Lady drew back , and after a filence of a few moments told him with a figh , she un- derstood him very well ; but that he had ask'd her the only thing fhe could have refused him . An acknowledgment like ...
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... see But ill become the thing they wifh'd to be ; Hence difcontent and fresh demands arife , More power , more favour in the great man's eyes ; All feel a want , tho ' none the caufe fufpects , And hate their patron for their own defects ...
... see But ill become the thing they wifh'd to be ; Hence difcontent and fresh demands arife , More power , more favour in the great man's eyes ; All feel a want , tho ' none the caufe fufpects , And hate their patron for their own defects ...
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... SEE , I. madam , fee , your fhivering lover lies Before your door , neglected and forlorn , The sport of raging tempefts and your scorn , Both unrelenting enemies : And can you still fo cruel be , These hardships to behold , and yet not ...
... SEE , I. madam , fee , your fhivering lover lies Before your door , neglected and forlorn , The sport of raging tempefts and your scorn , Both unrelenting enemies : And can you still fo cruel be , These hardships to behold , and yet not ...
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Page 341 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Page 340 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 193 - Skill'd every soft attraction to employ, Each flattering hope, and each alluring joy; I own your genius, and from you receive The rules of pleasing, which to you I give.
Page 31 - Not fond of life, but yet content to be : Here mark the fleeting hours ; regret the paft ; And ferioufly prepare, to meet the laft.
Page 103 - O'er the costly cups Of riot-stirring wine, unwholesome draught, Let Pride's loose sons prolong the wasteful night ; My sober evening let the Tankard bless, With toast embrown'd, and fragrant nutmeg fraught, While the rich draught with oft-repeated whiffs Tobacco mild improves. Divine...
Page 64 - For great men want not, what to give, but how. The race of men that follow courts, 'tis true, Think all they get, and more than all, their due ; Still...
Page 103 - Each thought subsides, and sweet oblivion wraps My peaceful brain, as if the leaden rod Of magic Morpheus o'er mine eyes had shed Its opiate influence.
Page 395 - To draw the Eye, or to allure the Heart, Poor were the Praife in Fortune to excel, Yet want the Way to ufe that Fortune well.
Page 82 - King having folemnly engaged in the terms required, DOWNING proceeded, and told, that his mafter the Ufurper, being now at peace with the Dutch, and the States fo...
Page 136 - He is defpifed and rejected of men ; a Man of forrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him ; He was defpifed, and we efteemed Him not.