Don Juan: Cantos XII.-XIII.-and XIVJohn Hunt, 1823 - 168 pages |
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... lady made a monstrous choice . ; XXXIX . Oh , pardon me digression — or at least Peruse ! ' Tis always with a moral end That I dissert , like Grace before a feast : For like an aged aunt , or tiresome friend , A rigid guardian , or a ...
... lady made a monstrous choice . ; XXXIX . Oh , pardon me digression — or at least Peruse ! ' Tis always with a moral end That I dissert , like Grace before a feast : For like an aged aunt , or tiresome friend , A rigid guardian , or a ...
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... Lady Pinchbeck was his choice . XLIII . Olden she was - but had been very young ; Virtuous she was - and had been , I believe : Although the world has such an evil tongue That but my chaster ear will not receive An echo of a syllable ...
... Lady Pinchbeck was his choice . XLIII . Olden she was - but had been very young ; Virtuous she was - and had been , I believe : Although the world has such an evil tongue That but my chaster ear will not receive An echo of a syllable ...
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... ladies in their youth a little gay , Besides their knowledge of the world , and sense Of the sad consequence of going astray , Are wiser in their warnings ' gainst the woe Which the mere passionless can never know . XLV . While the ...
... ladies in their youth a little gay , Besides their knowledge of the world , and sense Of the sad consequence of going astray , Are wiser in their warnings ' gainst the woe Which the mere passionless can never know . XLV . While the ...
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... Lady Pinchbeck had been talked about— As who has not , if female , young , and pretty ? But now no more the ghost of Scandal stalked about ; She merely was deemed amiable and witty , And several of her best bon - mots were hawked about ...
... Lady Pinchbeck had been talked about— As who has not , if female , young , and pretty ? But now no more the ghost of Scandal stalked about ; She merely was deemed amiable and witty , And several of her best bon - mots were hawked about ...
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... lady , whose last grown - up daughter Being long married , and thus set at large , Had left all the accomplishments she taught her To be transmitted , like the Lord Mayor's barge , To the next comer ; or - as it will tell More Muse ...
... lady , whose last grown - up daughter Being long married , and thus set at large , Had left all the accomplishments she taught her To be transmitted , like the Lord Mayor's barge , To the next comer ; or - as it will tell More Muse ...
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AYSGARTH Blank-Blank Square Buckler Bushmen CANTO XII Cape Cape Town Cash charming chaste court Danby Wiske DON JUAN doth doubt dull e'er EGGLESTONE ABBEY engraved eyes fair fame Font friends gainst gaze Genadendal gentle gentlemen Grace hate hath heart Heysham History HORNBY CASTLE Hottentot J. M. W. Turner Karró Kirklington Church Lady Adeline least leave less Litákun LONDON Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet Lord Henry mankind marriage Marrick Middiman Miss moral Mountains Muse ne'er never noble Norman Conquest Note nought o'er passion Perhaps pity Plates pleasure Portrait praise Price 11 PRINTED FOR LONGMAN reader rhyme RICHMOND RICHMOND CASTLE RICHMONDSHIRE Roffe sage Saint scarce seen SHARON TURNER slight soul South-east View stanza stood strange tell there's things thou thought Tis true TRAVELS truth twas twill unto virtue Vols Volume what's wild Wiske Church woman XXXIII young youth
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Page 87 - Amidst the court a Gothic fountain play'd, Symmetrical, but deck'd with, carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.
Page 165 - Tis strange, — but true ; for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction : if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange ; How differently the world would men behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change I The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind their souls
Page 138 - There's nought in this bad world like sympathy : 'Tis so becoming to the soul and face ; Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh, And robes sweet Friendship in a Brussels lace. Without a friend, what were humanity, To hunt our errors up with a good grace ? Consoling us with — " Would you had thought twice ! " Ah ! if you had but follow'd my advice !
Page 85 - The annals of full many a line undone, — The gallant cavaliers, who fought in vain For those who knew not to resign or reign.
Page 121 - Besides, my Muse by no means deals in fiction : She gathers a repertory of facts, Of course with some reserve and slight restriction, But mostly sings of human things and acts — And that's one cause she meets with contradiction ; For too much truth, at first sight, ne'er attracts ; And were her object only what's call'd glory, With more ease too she'd tell a different story.
Page 140 - I told you so," Utter'd by friends, those prophets of the past, Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last, And solace your slight lapse 'gainst " bonos mores," With a long memorandum of old stories.
Page 106 - Or sauntered through the gardens piteously, And made upon the hot-house several strictures, Or rode a nag, which trotted not too high, Or on the morning papers read their lectures, Or on the watch their longing eyes would fix, Longing at sixty for the hour of six. • cm. But none were