 Tis greatly wise to know before we're told The melancholy news that we grow old. Autumnal Lyce carries in her face Memento mori to each public place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms Who looks through spectacles to see your charms ! While rival...  Notes and Queries - 120. lappuse1883Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 lapas
...place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks through spectacles to see your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but other's doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the... | |
 | 1803 - 468 lapas
...place. O how your healing breast a mistrevs «arms, \Vlio looks thro' spectacles to vee your charms! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 232 lapas
...place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks thro' spectacles to see your charms I While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground : Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb. In vain... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 lapas
...place. O ! how your .beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks through spectacles to see your charms! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 lapas
...place. О how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks through spectacles to see your charms ' While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1811 - 294 lapas
...place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks through spectacles to see your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 lapas
...place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks through spectacles to see your charms t While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground. Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 lapas
...place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks through spectacles to see your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground; Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomb. In vain the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1844 - 352 lapas
...place. O how your beating breast a mistress warms, Who looks through spectacles to see your charms ! While rival undertakers hover round, And with his spade the sexton marks the ground, Intent not on her own, but others' doom, She plans new conquests, and defrauds the tomo, In vain the... | |
 | 1883 - 676 lapas
...word " undertaker " first applied to a conductor of funerals 1 The earliest use of it I can Tecali in this special sense is by Young, who has the couplet : — " While rival undertaken hover round. And with hU spade the sexton marke the ground." 'Clarendon, in his History,... | |
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