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"Chetwood and Curll accept this glorious strife," the latter, as always, wins the obscene contest, "and the pleas'd dame soft-smiling leads away." Nearly all of this account is impudent slander, but Mr. Pope's imputations may have had enough truth in them to sting.
Now he gets to Nice he feels a return of the craving to take a hand's turn at depreciatory satire upon the nation of which a contemporary hand was just tracing the deservedly better-known delineation, commencing Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleas'd with thyself, whom all the world can please. . . .
And although my Speculations did very much please me, I did beleeve that other men also had some, which perhaps pleas'd them more.
Indeed, Sir! be pleas'd, Seignior, to 'solve me some Queries that may enode some appearances of the Virtue of the Water you speak of. Scar. Doct. Scar. Now, Sir, be pleas'd to observe the three Regions: if they be bright, without doubt Mars is powerful; if the middle Region or Camera be palled, Filia Solis is breeding. Doct. Hum. Scar.
You are pleas'd to make your mirth of me. Un. By this Rubie, nay you shall weare it in the broad eye of the world, dost thinke I am in Jeast. Do. Sir Richard Un. And were he ten Sir Richards, I am out of my wardship. Do. How he flutters in the lime bush! it takes rarely. Un. What a necessary thing now were a household Chaplaine. Ri. So, so, the wench inclines.
I observ'd during this Disorder, neer Mile Island, at the western point, wee drove N. W. by the compass about 8 leagues in 6 hours, towards Cape Henry. Wee had much adoe to recover out of the Ice, & had like divers times to have perrish'd, but God was pleas'd to preserve us. My brother-in-Law, fearing to bear too much saile, stay'd behind.
Enter Trusty and Diana. Lord. Look ye here, Frank; Is this a Lady to be dislik'd? Come hither, Frank Trusty, haste for Dr. Dia. Lord. And you, Frank, will you marry my Niece Diana? Bel. Since you will have it so. Lord. Come, follow me then, and you shall be both pleas'd. Bel. Oh my Celinda! To preserve thee, what is't I wou'd not do? Forfeit my Heaven, nay more, I forfeit you.
She was born in 1664, and at the time of Sewall's courtship of her was fifty-six and he sixty-nine. General Winthrop and Mrs. Sewall had died a few years before within a month of each other. Madam Winthrop did not marry Judge Sewall, nor any one else. September 30. Mr. Colman's Lecture: Daughter Sewall acquaints Madam Winthrop that if she pleas'd to be within at 3 P.M. I would wait on her.
Parents ought to be sharply reprehended, who will not have their children come on by any strict method; but in this, as in all things, are so fond of making a noise in the world; and in such haste to compass their wishes, that they hurry them in publick e'er they have digested what they have read, and put children e'er they are well past their sucking-bottle, upon the good grace of speaking, than which even themselves confess, nothing is greater: Whereas if they would suffer them to come up by degrees, that their studies might be temper'd with grave lectures; their affections fashion'd by the dictates of wisdom; that they might work themselves into a mastery of words; and for a long time hear, what they're inclined to imitate, nothing that pleas'd children, wou'd be admir'd by them.
In Dr Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, there is the following passage: The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs, for each birth, the fortune of a face: Yet VANE could tell, what ills from beauty spring; And SEDLEY curs'd the charms which pleas'd a king.
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