The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 33Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... mind ; Can fee each Virtue and each Grace unite , And taste the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You vifit oft his awful Page with Care , And view that bright assemblage treasur'd there ; You trace the Chain that links his deep defign , And ...
... mind ; Can fee each Virtue and each Grace unite , And taste the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You vifit oft his awful Page with Care , And view that bright assemblage treasur'd there ; You trace the Chain that links his deep defign , And ...
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... mind : Cunning evades , fecurely wrapt in wiles ! 110 And Force ftrong - finew'd rends th ' unequal toils : The stream of Vice impetuous drives along , 115 Too deep for Policy , for Power too ftrong . Ev'n Ev'n fair Religion , Native of ...
... mind : Cunning evades , fecurely wrapt in wiles ! 110 And Force ftrong - finew'd rends th ' unequal toils : The stream of Vice impetuous drives along , 115 Too deep for Policy , for Power too ftrong . Ev'n Ev'n fair Religion , Native of ...
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... minds ingenuous , actions fair , 245 Till the Sons blufh at what their Fathers were : Ere yet ' twas beggary the great to trust ; Ere yet ' twas quite a folly to be just ; When low - born Sharpers only dar'd a lye , Or falfify'd the ...
... minds ingenuous , actions fair , 245 Till the Sons blufh at what their Fathers were : Ere yet ' twas beggary the great to trust ; Ere yet ' twas quite a folly to be just ; When low - born Sharpers only dar'd a lye , Or falfify'd the ...
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... mind . Here sweet or strong may every Colour flow , Here let the pencil warm , the canvass glow : Of light and shade provoke the noble strife , And wake each ftriking feature into life . 345 350 355 360 PART T PART III . HROUGH Ages ...
... mind . Here sweet or strong may every Colour flow , Here let the pencil warm , the canvass glow : Of light and shade provoke the noble strife , And wake each ftriking feature into life . 345 350 355 360 PART T PART III . HROUGH Ages ...
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... mind ! Who yonder Stars effulgence can display , 465 Unless he dip his pencil in the ray ? Who paint a God , unless the God inspire ? What catch the lightning , but the speed of fire ? So , mighty Pope , to make thy Genius known , All ...
... mind ! Who yonder Stars effulgence can display , 465 Unless he dip his pencil in the ray ? Who paint a God , unless the God inspire ? What catch the lightning , but the speed of fire ? So , mighty Pope , to make thy Genius known , All ...
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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;