The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 46Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... worth ! could that infpire my lays , Envy should fmile , and Cenfure learn to praife : Yet , though unequal to a foul like thine , A generous foul , approaching to divine , When blefs'd beneath fuch patronage I write , Great my attempt ...
... worth ! could that infpire my lays , Envy should fmile , and Cenfure learn to praife : Yet , though unequal to a foul like thine , A generous foul , approaching to divine , When blefs'd beneath fuch patronage I write , Great my attempt ...
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... worth may rise , If tubes perspective hem the spotless prize ; Through these the beams of the far - lengthen'd eye 145 Measure known ftars , and new remoter fpy . Hence Commerce many a shorten'd voyage fteers , Shorten'd to months , the ...
... worth may rise , If tubes perspective hem the spotless prize ; Through these the beams of the far - lengthen'd eye 145 Measure known ftars , and new remoter fpy . Hence Commerce many a shorten'd voyage fteers , Shorten'd to months , the ...
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... worth , and shoot at length to fame . Sweet fancy's bloom in Fenton's lay appears , And the ripe judgment of inftructive years . In Hill is all that generous fouls revere , To Virtue and the Mufe for ever dear : And Thomfon , in this ...
... worth , and shoot at length to fame . Sweet fancy's bloom in Fenton's lay appears , And the ripe judgment of inftructive years . In Hill is all that generous fouls revere , To Virtue and the Mufe for ever dear : And Thomfon , in this ...
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... worth , unpraife , 345 Deferting morals , that adorn his lays , Alas ! too oft each fcience fhews the fame , The great grow jealous of a greater name : Ye bards , the frailty mourn , yet brave the shock ; Has not a Stilling fleet oppos ...
... worth , unpraife , 345 Deferting morals , that adorn his lays , Alas ! too oft each fcience fhews the fame , The great grow jealous of a greater name : Ye bards , the frailty mourn , yet brave the shock ; Has not a Stilling fleet oppos ...
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... worth ; Prefer'd , it feems a fatire on our own ; Then heedlefs to excel we meanly moan : Then we abstract our views , and Envy show , 380 385 390 Whence fprings the mifery , pride is doom'd to know . Thus folly pain creates : By ...
... worth ; Prefer'd , it feems a fatire on our own ; Then heedlefs to excel we meanly moan : Then we abstract our views , and Envy show , 380 385 390 Whence fprings the mifery , pride is doom'd to know . Thus folly pain creates : By ...
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Страница 68 - Griev'd I forgive, and am grown cool too late; Young and unthoughtful then, who knows one day What ripening virtues might have made their way!
Страница 68 - He might have fav'd fome worth, now doom'd to fall ; And I, perchance, in him, have murder'd all. O fate of late Repentance ! always vain : Thy remedies but lull undying pain. Where...
Страница 82 - Two Fathers join'd to rob my Claim of one ! My Mother too thought fit to have no Son ! The Senate next...
Страница 29 - Can its foot sharpen, like the vulture's claw? Can the fond goat, or tender fleecy dam, Howl, like the wolf, to tear the kid, or lamb? Yes, there are mothers...
Страница 66 - tis to you My thanks for such distinguish'd claims are due ; You, unenslav'd to Nature's narrow laws, Warm championess for freedom's sacred cause, From all the dry devoirs of blood and line, . From ties maternal, moral and divine, Discharg'd my grasping soul ; push'd me from shore, And launch'd me into life without an oar.
Страница 70 - Her fmile more cheerful than a vernal morn, All life ! all bloom ! of Youth and Fancy born. Touch'd into joy, what hearts to her fubmit ! She looks her Sire, and fpeaks her Mother's wit. O'er the gay world the fweet infpirer reigns . Spleen flies, and Elegance her pomp fuftains.
Страница 39 - Whence, beam'd from sapphires, living azure plays; The liquid floor, in-wrought with pearls divine, Where all his labours in...
Страница 172 - Boast petty courts, whence rules new rigour draw, Unknown to Nature's and to statute-law ; Quirks that explain all saving rights away, To give th' attorney and the catchpoll prey.
Страница 6 - Induftry is all with Beauty crown'd ! He, He alone, explores the Mine for Gain, Hues the hard Rock, or harrows up the Plain ; He forms the Sword to...
Страница 56 - He deem'd it godlike to have power to blefs : Thus, when unguarded, treafon ftain'd him o'er; And virtue and content were then no more. But when to death by rigorous...