 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 - Page 1201883Full view - About this book
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1805 - 232 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...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 - Drama - 1811 - 294 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...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 - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 676 pages
...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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