The Love of Gain: A Poem. Imitated from the Thirteenth Satire of Juvenal ...J. Bell, 1799 - 51 pages |
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Page 47 - Canft thou not minifter to a mind difeas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted forrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with fome fweet oblivious antidote, Cleanfe the ftuff'd bofom of that perilous ftuff. Which weighs upon the heart ? DOCT.
Page 23 - Who robb'da nation, and who robb'da shop. Rascals alike, by Fortune's wayward sport One goes to Tyburn, t'other goes to Court; And while this rogue is doom'd in air to swing, That for a peerage kneels to thank the King.
Page 42 - Et ( quod praxipuis mentem fudoribus urget ) Te videt in fomnis . tua facra & major imago Human* turbar pavidum, cogirque fateri.
Page 43 - ... hideous yell Their prey to seize the Denizens of hell! Headlong they hurl him on some ice-rock's point, Mangle each limb, and dislocate each joint; Or plunge him deep in blue sulphureous lakes; Or lash his quivering flesh with twisted snakes; Or in his brain their burning talons dart; Or from his bosom rend his panting heart To bathe their fiery lips in guilty gore! — Then starts he from his couch, while dews of horror pour Down his dank forehead — wrings his hands, and prays to sleep no...
Page 6 - Magna quidem, sacris quae dat praecepta libellis Victrix Fortunae sapientia. Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, Nee iactare iugum, vita didicere magistra. Quae...
Page 21 - Nor always in the world's vaft book we find " To equal fin an equal doom affigned.
Page 48 - Flagitio ? Dabit in laqueum veftigia nofter Perfidus, & nigri patietur carceris uncum.
Page 10 - Nulla super nubes convivia Cœlicolarum : Née puer Iliacus , formosa née Herculis uxor Ad cyathos , et jam siccato nectare tergens Brachia Vulcanus Liparaea nigra taberna.