A Poetical, Serious, and Possibly Impertinent, Epistle to the Pope: Also, a Pair of Odes to His Holiness, on His Keeping a Disorderly House; with a Pretty Little Ode to Innocence, Issue 36

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T. Evans, 1793 - 41 pages
 

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Page 33 - VIRTUE'S caufe fo faint ; Like DAVID in his youth, a lawlefs fwain ! Preferring (let me own with blufhing face) The ftorms of PASSION to the calms of GRACE; One ounce of p leaf are to a pound of pain.
Page 32 - Yet, fhould a rural VENUS from her bow'r Step forth with bofom bare, and beaming eye, And flaxen locks, luxuriant rofe-clad cheek, And purple lip, and dimpled chin fo...
Page 10 - ... parifh— A Lady all fo graceful, gay, and rich, With gems and wonders lodg'd in every ftitch. Heir of SAINT PETER, kindle then thine ire, And bid FRANCE feel thy apoftolic fire ; Think of the quantity of facred wood Thy treafuries can launch into the flood ; What...
Page 24 - One is a Summer-house, so neat and trim, To visit afternoons for Pleasure's whim; So airy, like a Butterfly so light : The other an old Castle with huge walls, Where Melancholy mopes amid the halls, Wrapp'd in the doleful dusky veil of night.
Page 33 - Farewell; I cannot help it ; witchcraft's in her cell, The Passions like to be where tempests blow. "Go, Girl, enjoy thy Fish, and Flies, and Doves; But suffer me to giggle with the Loves.
Page 29 - NYMPH of meek and blufhful mien, Lone wand'rer of the rural fcene, Who loveft not the city's buttling found, But in the ftill and fimple vale Art pleas'd to hear the Turtle's tale, 'Mid the gay minftrelfy that floats around ! Now on the bank, amid the funny beam...

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