| SEVERAL HANDS - 1768 - 628 pages
...offspring feeks the funny glade, While Satire ikulks beneath th' obfcurer fhade ; Near him, his fitter, comic maid, is feen, Who checks, with laughing eyes,...Combin'd o'er worlds an empire they maintain, And every vice and folly wears their chain. '• • The reputation which Mr. de Voltaire has fo juftly... | |
| History - 1800 - 614 pages
...offspring feeks th' funny glade. While SATIRE ftulks behind the obfcurer made; Near him his fitter, COMIC MAID, is feen, Who checks, with laughing eyes,...maintain, And ev'ry vice and folly wears their chain. * The Lake of Geneva. ,. t The Rhone and the Arve, which unite juft below the Lake. Th' heroic mufe... | |
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