Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1796 |
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... heav'n , No wilful crime this heavy vengeance bred : In mutual innocence our lives we led . If this be false , let these new greens decay , Let sounding axes lop my limbs away , And crackling flames on all my honours prey . But from my ...
... heav'n , No wilful crime this heavy vengeance bred : In mutual innocence our lives we led . If this be false , let these new greens decay , Let sounding axes lop my limbs away , And crackling flames on all my honours prey . But from my ...
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... Heav'n , the threaten'd world to spare , Thought fit to drown him in her tears ; Else might th ' ambitious nymph aspire To set , like him , heav'n too on fire . V. E. OF ROCHESTER . On Silence . I. SILENCE ! Coeval with eternity ; Thou ...
... Heav'n , the threaten'd world to spare , Thought fit to drown him in her tears ; Else might th ' ambitious nymph aspire To set , like him , heav'n too on fire . V. E. OF ROCHESTER . On Silence . I. SILENCE ! Coeval with eternity ; Thou ...
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... Heav'n , to bless those days , preserve my friend ! Preserve him social , chearful , and serene , 416 And just as rich as when he serv'd a Queen ! · A. Whether that blessing be deny'd or giv'n , " Thus far was right , the rest belongs ...
... Heav'n , to bless those days , preserve my friend ! Preserve him social , chearful , and serene , 416 And just as rich as when he serv'd a Queen ! · A. Whether that blessing be deny'd or giv'n , " Thus far was right , the rest belongs ...
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... Heav'n it last ! ( cries Swift ) as you go on ; " I wish to God this house had been your own ! Et nuxornabat mensas , cum duplice ficu . Post hoc ludus erat 2 cuppa potare magistra : Ac venerata Ceres , ut culmo surgeret alto ...
... Heav'n it last ! ( cries Swift ) as you go on ; " I wish to God this house had been your own ! Et nuxornabat mensas , cum duplice ficu . Post hoc ludus erat 2 cuppa potare magistra : Ac venerata Ceres , ut culmo surgeret alto ...
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... heav`n except ( what's mighty odd ) A fit of vapours clouds this demigod . 4 De te pendentis , te respicientis amici . I 188 Ad summam , sapiens uno minor est Jove , 1 dives , 2 Liber , 3 honoratus , 4 pulcher , 5 rex denique regum ...
... heav`n except ( what's mighty odd ) A fit of vapours clouds this demigod . 4 De te pendentis , te respicientis amici . I 188 Ad summam , sapiens uno minor est Jove , 1 dives , 2 Liber , 3 honoratus , 4 pulcher , 5 rex denique regum ...
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Страница 32 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Страница 213 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Страница 36 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Страница 48 - ... for half a year or more, the common newspapers, in most of which they had some property, as being hired writers, were filled with the most abusive falsehoods and scurrilities they could possibly devise...
Страница 32 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Страница 197 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Страница 39 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Страница 35 - Tis all in vain, deny it as I will: 'No, such a genius never can lie still'; And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir Will or Bubo makes.
Страница 27 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Страница 33 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ! Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...