Fables for the Female Sex

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R. Francklin, 1761 - 173 Seiten
 

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Seite 117 - Nay more ; for facred ftories tell, That ev'n immortal angels fell. Whatever fills the teeming fphere, Of humid earth, and ambient air, With varying elements endu'd, Was form'd to fall, and rife renew'd.
Seite 109 - Ah! deck me to his eyes alone, With charms attractive as his own, And, in my circling wings...
Seite 22 - The monarch calmly thus reply'd ; Weigh well the caufe, and then decide. That friend of yours, you lately nam'd, Cupid, alone is to...
Seite 83 - All meanings she defines away, And stands, with truth and sense, at bay. If e'er she meets a gentle heart...
Seite 74 - twas paid. And will you then this wealth conceal, For age to...
Seite 25 - Cslia, is your fpreading waift So loofe, fo negligently lac'd? Why muft the wrapping bed-gown hide Your fnowy bofom's fwelling pride?
Seite 122 - The spring with earlier fragrance bloom'd. And nature yearly took delight. Like her, to dress the world in white. But...
Seite 169 - Once Prudence call'd, a matron fam'd, And, in old Rome, Cornelia nam'd. Quick, at a venture, both agree To leave their strife to her decree.
Seite 120 - A ftream, call'd Life, acrofs it glides, And equally the land divides; And here, of Vice the province lies, And there, the hills of Virtue rife...
Seite 141 - Alas ! thofe fhrinking friends decline, Nor longer own that form divine; With fear they mark the following cry, And from the lonely Trembler fly, Or backward drive her on the coaft, Where peace was wreck'd, and honour loft.

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