The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 33Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Thee ! Flames that could mount , and gain their kindred skies , Low creeping in the putrid fink of vice : A Mufe whom Wisdom woo'd , but woo'd in vain , The Pimp of Power , the Prostitute to Gain : Wreaths , that should deck fair ...
... Thee ! Flames that could mount , and gain their kindred skies , Low creeping in the putrid fink of vice : A Mufe whom Wisdom woo'd , but woo'd in vain , The Pimp of Power , the Prostitute to Gain : Wreaths , that should deck fair ...
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... thee with kind contention ftrove , For thee the Graces left th ' Idalian grove ; With watchful fondness o'er thy cradle hung , Attun'd thy voice , and form'd thy infant tongue . Next , to her Bard majestic Wisdom came ; The bard ...
... thee with kind contention ftrove , For thee the Graces left th ' Idalian grove ; With watchful fondness o'er thy cradle hung , Attun'd thy voice , and form'd thy infant tongue . Next , to her Bard majestic Wisdom came ; The bard ...
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... thee be given . Thy Genius was indeed a Gift from Heaven . Hail , Bard unequal'd , in whofe deathlefs line Reason and wit with strength collected shine ; Where matchless Wit but wins the second praise , Loft , nobly loft , in Truth's ...
... thee be given . Thy Genius was indeed a Gift from Heaven . Hail , Bard unequal'd , in whofe deathlefs line Reason and wit with strength collected shine ; Where matchless Wit but wins the second praise , Loft , nobly loft , in Truth's ...
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... thee ? 30 II . Presumptuous Man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd fo weak , fo little , and fo blind ? First , if thou canft , the harder reafon guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth ...
... thee ? 30 II . Presumptuous Man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd fo weak , fo little , and fo blind ? First , if thou canft , the harder reafon guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth ...
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... thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy bleffing now . Hope fprings eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be bleft : The foul , uneafy , and confin'd from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come . Lo ...
... thee to know , But gives that Hope to be thy bleffing now . Hope fprings eternal in the human breast : Man never Is , but always To be bleft : The foul , uneafy , and confin'd from home , Refts and expatiates in a life to come . Lo ...
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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;