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answer'd appear'd art thou beauty behold bosom Caliph call'd charms child comfort confess'd Conscience cried crime dare delight disdain distress'd dread dwelt ease fair faithful fame fancy fate father favourite fear fear'd feel felt fix'd fled folly fond friendly pair Fulham gain'd gave gentle GEORGE CRABBE grace grave grief grieved happy hear heard heart hope humble Jesse John Dighton Julius Cæsar kind knew lady Lady saw live look look'd maid marriage Midsummer Night's Dream mild mind Muse numbers nymph o'er obey'd Orlando pain pass'd passion peace pity pleased pleasure poison'd poor possess'd praise pride proud prudence remain'd replied rest scorn seem'd shame sigh smile soothe sorrow sought soul speak spirit spleen Squire strong sure as fate thee thought trembling truth Twas vex'd vile wife wish'd woes wretch youth
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Page 100 - Ah me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth...
Page 198 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 167 - Kent. That such a slave as this should wear a sword, Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain Which are too intrinse t...
Page 140 - I had a thing to say, — But let it go : The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world...
Page 198 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all 'Guilty! guilty!
Page 359 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Page 288 - A credulous father, and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none, on whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy ! — I see the business.
Page 54 - Heav'n, perhaps, might yet enrich her friend. Month after month was pass'd, and all were spent In quiet comfort and in rich content: Miseries there were, and woes the world around, But these had not her pleasant dwelling found; She knew that mothers grieved, and widows wept, And she was sorry, said her prayers, and slept...
Page 258 - Yes, lady, not his years ;— No ! nor his sufferings— nor that fo'rm decay'd." "Well ! let the parish give its paupers aid ; You must the vileness of His acts allow ;" " And you, dear lady, that he' feels it now." " When such dissemblers on their deeds reflect, Can they .the pity they refused expect ? He that doth evil, evil shall he dread."
Page 197 - Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? For any good That I myself have done unto myself? O, no! Alas, I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself! I am a villain; yet I lie, I am not. Fool, of thyself speak well. Fool, do not flatter. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.