The Poetical Works of John Gay: Introductory memoir, longer poems, Epistles and epistolatory verse. Eclogues.- v. 2. Translations. Prdogues and epiloguos, Fables. Poems from 'Gay's chair', Miscellaneous pieces, Songs and balladsLawrence and Bullen, 1893 |
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Seite lvi - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Seite 61 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Seite 252 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died.
Seite 235 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride ; Let Nature guide thee ! sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Seite 72 - But see the sunbeams bright to labour warn, And gild the thatch of goodman Hodge's barn. Your herds for want of water stand adry, They 're weary of your songs — and so am I.
Seite 114 - Be sure observe the signs, for signs remain, Like faithful landmarks, to the walking train.
Seite 61 - Thou wilt not find my shepherdesses idly piping on oaten reeds, but milking the kine, tying up the sheaves, or if the hogs are astray driving them to their styes. My shepherd gathereth none other nosegays but what are the growth of our own fields, he sleepeth not under myrtle shades, but under a hedge, nor doth he vigilantly defend his flocks from wolves, because there are none, as maister Spencer well observeth.
Seite 85 - With my sharp Heel I three times mark the Ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.
Seite liv - I see it in the eyes of them.' This was a good while before the first act was over, and so gave us ease soon ; for...
Seite 114 - The wall surrender to the hooded maid. Nor let thy sturdy elbow's hasty rage Jostle the feeble steps of trembling age. And when the porter bends beneath his load, And pants for breath, clear thou the crowded road. But, above all, the groping blind direct, And from the pressing throng the lame protect.