Beauty death turns to rottenness, And youth to wrinkled face; The witty he brings to distress, And wantons to disgrace.
For me, the meanest of your train, Unblamed to approach your blest retreat: Where Horace wantons at your spring, And Pindar sweeps a bolder string; Whose notes the Aonian hills repeat.
Do clouds drop fatness from the wealthier skies, Or wantonsplenty in her happier vales?
And when the Sly Thieves and Gay Wantons and Bold Robbers and Poisoners and Parasites and Imposters of every degree waxed fat before his eyes, and made gorgeous processions with banners before him, he said, "How prosperous my country is!
And the Sly Thieves and the Gay Wantons and the Bold Robbers and the Parasites and Poisoners and Impostors of every degree hung like leeches on the kingdom and bled it at every pore.
And in his court and his country there flourished Sly Thieves and Gay Wantons and Bold Robbers; also Poisoners and Parasites and Impostors of every degree.
She had no patience with the Gay Wantons and Sly Thieves and Bold Robbers; and the Poisoners and the Parasites and the Impostors of every degree were a horror to her.
A king who lavishes thousands upon wantons and profligates, and who ever gives not to the most worthy, but to the most importunate.
Can sacred Peace reside Where sordid gold the breast alarms, Where Cruelty inflames the eye of Pride, And Grandeur wantons in soft Pleasure's arms?
A match, my lord; these wantons needes must love: Men must have wives, and women will be wed: 20 Lets hast the day to honour up the rites.
Such wantonsare hateful to my sight; for, as the Scripture says, 'A fair woman without discretion is like a circlet of gold upon a swine's head.
What else were these giddy wantons thinking of but lovers and matrimony?
The Iroquois girls were coarse wantons who indulged in free lust before marriage, and for whom the men felt such passion as is possible under the circumstances.
While the poor widows who had been respectably married are deprived of all ornaments and joys of life, these wantons are decked with fine clothes, flowers, and jewelry; and gold is showered upon them.
Dianeme's "rich hair which wantons with the love-sick air" is a pretty conceit.
Can sacred PEACE reside Where sordid gold the breast alarms, Where Cruelty inflames the eye of Pride, And Grandeur wantons in soft Pleasure's arms?
Her flatteries beleeve not, Come to me, and grieve not; Wantons will thee overthrow.
Her flatteries believe not, Come to me, and grieve not; Wantons will thee overthrow.
Or shall we play the Wantons with our Woes, And make some prettie Match, with shedding Teares?
The bloud of youth burns not with such excesse, As grauities reuolt to wantons be Mar.
Castara, see that dust, the sportive wind So wantons with.
Ile therefore nigh some murm'ring brooke That wantons through my meddowes, with a booke With my Castara, or some friend, My youth not guilty of ambition spend.
Tis not thy face, I cannot spie When Poets weepe some Virgins death, That Cupid wantons in her eye, Or perfumes vapour from her breath, And 'mongst the dead thou once must lie.
Or shall we play the wantons with our woes, And make some pretty match with shedding tears?
Cheap wine in the cafés of the Greeks let the devil loose, and so they fell an easy prey to the lures of the bold and handsome wantons of Cairo.
In one of the streets where the wantons live an injustice had been done to one of the boys.
Here, among extensive meadows of the richest verdure, the meandering Rhydol wantons its fantastic course.
The translucid Towey here wantons in perpetual variety among gay meadows and embowering plantations, where the eye with pleasure traces its fantastic meanders until they disappear behind projecting groves.
That little cage I would not part, In which my soul is prisoned now, For the most light and winged heart That wantonson the passing vow.
Let loose your glowing wantons from their bowers, "He loves, he loves, and can defy their powers!
Can sacred Peace reside, Where sordid gold the breast alarms, Where cruelty inflames the eye of Pride, And Grandeur wantons in soft Pleasure's arms?
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