The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 33Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Ease , Content ! whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th ' eternal figh , For which we bear to live , or dare to die , Which still so near us , yet beyond us lies , O'erlook'd , feen double , by the fool and wife ...
... Ease , Content ! whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th ' eternal figh , For which we bear to live , or dare to die , Which still so near us , yet beyond us lies , O'erlook'd , feen double , by the fool and wife ...
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... ease , Those call it Pleasure , and Contentment these ; Some , funk to Beasts , find Pleasure end in Pain ; Some , fwell'd to Gods , confefs ev'n Virtue vain ; Or , indolent , to each extreme they fall , To truft in ev'ry thing , or ...
... ease , Those call it Pleasure , and Contentment these ; Some , funk to Beasts , find Pleasure end in Pain ; Some , fwell'd to Gods , confefs ev'n Virtue vain ; Or , indolent , to each extreme they fall , To truft in ev'ry thing , or ...
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... ease When his lewd father gave the dire disease . 115 120 Think we , like fome weak Prince , th ' Eternal Cause Prone for his favourites to reverse his laws ? Shall VARIATION . After ver . 116. in the MS . Of every evil , fince the ...
... ease When his lewd father gave the dire disease . 115 120 Think we , like fome weak Prince , th ' Eternal Cause Prone for his favourites to reverse his laws ? Shall VARIATION . After ver . 116. in the MS . Of every evil , fince the ...
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... ease : Think , and if still the things thy envy call , 275 Say , would'st thou be the Man to whom they fall ? To figh for ribbands if thou art fo filly , Mark how they grace Lord Umbra , or Sir Billy . Is yellow dirt the paffion of thy ...
... ease : Think , and if still the things thy envy call , 275 Say , would'st thou be the Man to whom they fall ? To figh for ribbands if thou art fo filly , Mark how they grace Lord Umbra , or Sir Billy . Is yellow dirt the paffion of thy ...
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... ease , Or infamous for plunder'd provinces . 285 290 295 O ! wealth ill - fated ! which no act of fame E'er taught to fhine , or fanctify'd from shame ! What greater blifs attends their clofe of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious ...
... ease , Or infamous for plunder'd provinces . 285 290 295 O ! wealth ill - fated ! which no act of fame E'er taught to fhine , or fanctify'd from shame ! What greater blifs attends their clofe of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious ...
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Страница 149 - Bleft with each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to
Страница 23 - in a certain fphere, What matter, foon or late, or here, or there ? The bleft to-day is as completely fo, 75 As who began a thoufand years ago. III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent ftate : VARIATIONS. In the former Editions, ver. 64..
Страница 80 - damnation round the land, On each I judge thy Foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to ftay : If I am wrong, oh teach my neart To find that better way. Save me alike from foolifti Pride, Or impious Difcontent, At aught thy Wifdom has deny'd, Or aught thy Goodnefs lent. Teach me to
Страница 75 - The centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds, 365 Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind ; 370 Earth fmiles around, with
Страница 157 - know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore
Страница 48 - fteer ; 40 The hog, that plows not, nor obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Know, Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch, warm'da bear. While Man exclaims, " See all things for my ufe !" 45 " See man for mine !
Страница 146 - three thoufand years ago. Why did I write ? what fin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father difobey'd
Страница 70 - phrafe abfurd to call a Villain Great : Who wickedly is wife, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed
Страница 21 - can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; j A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flowers promifcuous fhoot : Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield
Страница 33 - With too much weaknefs for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to aft, or reft; In doubt to deem himfelf a God, or Beaft; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer; Born but to die, and reafoning but to err;