The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 33Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... whose eye refin'd Can fee the greatness of an honest 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 ...
... whose eye refin'd Can fee the greatness of an honest 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 ...
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... whose baleful dews the Poppy fprung . No longer Genius woo'd the Nine to love , But Dulness nodded in the Mufe's grove : Wit , Spirit , Freedom , were the fole offence , Nor aught was held fo dangerous as Sense . At length , again fair ...
... whose baleful dews the Poppy fprung . No longer Genius woo'd the Nine to love , But Dulness nodded in the Mufe's grove : Wit , Spirit , Freedom , were the fole offence , Nor aught was held fo dangerous as Sense . At length , again fair ...
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... whose gaudy line Untutor'd thought and tinsel beauty shine : Wit's fhatter'd Mirror lies in fragments bright , Reflects not Nature , but confounds the fight . Dry Morals the Court - Poet blush'd to fing ; ' Twas all his praise to say ...
... whose gaudy line Untutor'd thought and tinsel beauty shine : Wit's fhatter'd Mirror lies in fragments bright , Reflects not Nature , but confounds the fight . Dry Morals the Court - Poet blush'd to fing ; ' Twas all his praise to say ...
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... whose use ? Pride anfwers , " " Tis for mine : " For me kind Nature wakes her genial power ; " Suckles each herb , and spreads out every flower ; " Annual for me , the grape , the rose , renew " The juice nectareous , and the balmy dew ...
... whose use ? Pride anfwers , " " Tis for mine : " For me kind Nature wakes her genial power ; " Suckles each herb , and spreads out every flower ; " Annual for me , the grape , the rose , renew " The juice nectareous , and the balmy dew ...
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... whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old Ocean , and who wings the ftorms ; Pours fierce Ambition in a Cæfar's mind , Or turns young Ammon loofe to fcourge mankind ? 160 From pride , from pride , our very reasoning springs ...
... whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old Ocean , and who wings the ftorms ; Pours fierce Ambition in a Cæfar's mind , Or turns young Ammon loofe to fcourge mankind ? 160 From pride , from pride , our very reasoning springs ...
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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;