A Portrait (Richard Brinsley Sheridan Poems)
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;Here's to the widow of fifty;Here's to the flaunting extravagant quean,And here's to the ...
If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,No peace shall you know, tho' you've buried your wife,At ...
Had I a heart for falsehood framed,I ne'er could injure you;For though your tongue no promise claimed,Your charms would make ...
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