The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 51Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... thine To tread out empire , and to quench the stars . The fun himself by thy permiffion fhines ; And , one day , thou shalt pluck him from his sphere . Amid fuch mighty plunder , why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark fo mean ? Why ...
... thine To tread out empire , and to quench the stars . The fun himself by thy permiffion fhines ; And , one day , thou shalt pluck him from his sphere . Amid fuch mighty plunder , why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark fo mean ? Why ...
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... thine excel , 435 440 And charm through diftant ages : wrapt in fhade , 445 Prifoner of darknefs ! to the filent hours , How often I repeat their rage divine , ftrain ! To lull my griefs , and fteal my heart from woe I roll their ...
... thine excel , 435 440 And charm through diftant ages : wrapt in fhade , 445 Prifoner of darknefs ! to the filent hours , How often I repeat their rage divine , ftrain ! To lull my griefs , and fteal my heart from woe I roll their ...
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... thine , on themes may profit ; profit there , Where most thy need . Themes , too , the genuine growth Of dear Philander's duft . He thus , though dead , 15 May til befriend - What themes ? Time's wondrous price , C 2 Death , Death ...
... thine , on themes may profit ; profit there , Where most thy need . Themes , too , the genuine growth Of dear Philander's duft . He thus , though dead , 15 May til befriend - What themes ? Time's wondrous price , C 2 Death , Death ...
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... Thine ear , nor leave thy heart quite difengag'd , The good deed would delight me ; half impress On my dark cloud an Iris ; and from grief Call glory - Dost thou mourn Philander's fate ? I know thou fay'ft it : Says thy life the fame ...
... Thine ear , nor leave thy heart quite difengag'd , The good deed would delight me ; half impress On my dark cloud an Iris ; and from grief Call glory - Dost thou mourn Philander's fate ? I know thou fay'ft it : Says thy life the fame ...
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... thine ; This cancels thy complaint at once , This leaves In act no trifle , and no blank in time . This greatens , fills , immortalizes all ; This , the bleft art of turning all to gold ; This , the good heart's prerogative to raise A ...
... thine ; This cancels thy complaint at once , This leaves In act no trifle , and no blank in time . This greatens , fills , immortalizes all ; This , the bleft art of turning all to gold ; This , the good heart's prerogative to raise A ...
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Страница 30 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. Fly, ye profane ! If not, draw near with awe, Receive the blefling, and adore the chance,
Страница 15 - both pain us, what can pleafe ? That which the Deity to pleafe ordain'd, Time us'd. The man who confecrates his hours 185 By vigorous effort, and an honeft aim, At once he draws the fting of life and death; He walks 'with Nature; and her paths are peace. Our error's
Страница 52 - The deep damp vault, the darknefs, and the worm; Thefe are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and error's wretch, Man makes a death, .which nature never made ; 15 Then on the point of his own fancy
Страница 6 - out of life. Procraftination is the thief of time ; Year after year it fteals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves 395 The vaft concerns of an eternal
Страница 95 - Tis a proud mendicant; it boafts, and begs ; It begs an alms of homage from the throng, And oft the throng denies its charity. 290 Monarchs and minifters are awful names ; Whoever wear them, challenge our devoir. Religion, public order, both exact External homage, and a fupple knee
Страница 73 - Let him not violate kind nature's laws, " But own man born to live as well as die." Wretched and old thou giv'ft him ; young and gay He takes ; and -plunder is a tyrant's joy. What if I prove, " That fartheft from the fear, 790
Страница 28 - A friend, but what has found a friend in Thee. All like the purchafe ; few the price will pay ; And this makes friends fuch miracles below. What if (fmce daring on fo nice a theme) I mew thee friendfhip Delicate, as Dear, Of tender violations apt to die
Страница 120 - In this, not bis own place, this foreign field, Where nature fodders him with other food Than was ordain'd his cravings to fuffice, Poor in abundance, famifh'd at a feaft, Sighs on for fomething more, when mojl enjoy'd. 45 Is heaven then kinder to thy flocks than thee ? Not fo ; thy pafture richer, but remote
Страница 35 - And make diftrefs, diftraftion. Oh Philander! What was thy fate ? A double fate to me ; Portent, and pain ! a menace, and a blow! Like the black raven hovering o'er my peace, Not lefs a bird of omen, than of prey. 75 It call'd Narcifl'a long before her hour; It call'd her tender foul, by break of
Страница 108 - tis revolution all; All change ; no death. Day follows night; and night The dying day; ftars rife, and fet, and rife; Earth takes th' example. See, the Summer gay, 680 With her green chaplet, and ambrofial