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When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 225) [Fancy] How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 230) [Guilt] Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 243) [Ivy] One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 273) [Love] Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 29) [Post] And more than echoes talk along the walls. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 306) [Echo] O name forever sad! forever dear! Still breath'd in sighs, still usher'd with a tear. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 31) [Names] See my lips tremble and my eyeballs roll, Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul! - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 323) [Death] Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe: Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 35) [Post] O Death, all eloquent! you only prove What dust we dote on, when 'tis man we love. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 355) [Death] Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 51) [Post] And truths divine came mended from that tongue. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 66) [Preaching] Curse on all laws but those which love has made. - Eloisa to Abelard (l. 74) [Law] He best can paint them who shall feel them most. - Eloisa to Abelard (last line) [Painting] How shall I lose the sin yet keep the sense, And love th' offender, yet detest the offence? - Eloise to Abelard (l. 191) [Sin] Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. - Eloise to Abelard (l. 361) [Absence] Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. - Eloise to Abelard (l. 57) [Communication] You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. - Epigram [Wit] I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? - Epigrams--On the Collar of a Dog [Dogs] The stoic husband was the glorious thing. The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true, And lov'd his country. - Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore [Husbands] Well, if our author in the wife offends He has a husband that will make amends; He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving, And sure such kind good creatures may be living. - Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore [Husbands] Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame. - Epilogue to Satire (dialogue I, l. 135) [Fame] All, look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the law. - Epilogue to Satire (dialogue I, l. 167) [Law] Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more. - Epilogue to Satire (dialogue I, l. 55) [Laughter] Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. - Epilogue to Satire (dialogue II, l. 46) [Bribery] Displaying page 14 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [14] 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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