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Parents, to their offspring blind, Consult nor parts, nor turn of mind; But, ev'n in infancy, decree What this, what t'other son shall be. - [Parents] Praise is only praise when well addressed. - [Praise] Praising all alike, is praising none. - [Praise] Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least. - [Pride] Shadow owes its birth to light. - [Contrast] She lik'd his soothing lutes, his presents more, And granted kisses, but would grant no more. - [Coquette] Such is the country maiden's fright, When first a red-coat is in sight; Behind the door she hides her face; Next time at distance eyes the lace. - [Soldiers] Sure men were born to lie, and women, to believe them. - [Lying] Sweet as refreshing dews or summer showers, To the long parching thirst of drooping flowers; Grateful as fanning gales to fainting swains And soft as trickling balm to bleeding pains Such are thy words. - [Comfort] That man must daily wiser grow, Whose search is bent himself to know. - [Self-knowledge] The bloom of young desire and purple light of love. - [Blushes] The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. - [Widows] The coquettes of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. - [Coquetry] The glorious Author of the universe, Who reins the winds, gives the vast ocean bounds, And circumscribes the floating worlds their rounds! - [God] The healthy huntsman, with a cheerful horn, Summons the dogs and greets the dappled Morn. The jocund thunder wakes the enliven'd hounds, They rouse from sleep, and answer sounds for sounds. - [Hunting] The lion is beyond dispute Allow'd the most majestic brute; His valor and his generous mind Prove him superior of his kind. - [Lions] The man to Jove his suit preferr'd; He begg'd a wife; his prayer was heard. Jove wonder'd at his bold addressing: For how precarious is the blessing! - [Wives] The man who, with undaunted toils Sails unknown seas to unknown soils, With various wonders feasts his sight; What stranger wonders does he write! We read, and in description view Creatures which Adam never knew: For, when we risk no contradiction It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. - [Travel] The smallest speck is seen on snow. - [Purity] The vain coquette each suit disdains, And glories in her lover's pains; With age she fades--each lover flies, Contemn'd, forlorn, she pines and dies. - [Coquette] They most assume, who know the least. - [Ignorance] Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. - [Proverbs] Thus, when the villain crams his chest, Gold is the canker of the breast; 'Tis avarice, insolence, and pride, And every shocking vice beside:-- But when to virtuous hands 'tis given, It blesses, like the dews of heaven: Like heaven, it hears the orphans' cries, And wipes the tears from widows' eyes. - [Gold] Titles and profit I resign, The post of honor shall be mine. - [Titles] To all apparent beauties blind, Each blemish strikes an envious mind. - [Envy] Displaying page 2 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7
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