Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1796 |
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... fortunatum species , et gratia præstat ; 4 Mercemur servum , qui dictet nomina , lævum Qui fodia latus , et 5 cogat trans pondera dextram Whom honour with your hand ; to make remarks , 102 Book I. IMITATIONS OF HORACE .
... fortunatum species , et gratia præstat ; 4 Mercemur servum , qui dictet nomina , lævum Qui fodia latus , et 5 cogat trans pondera dextram Whom honour with your hand ; to make remarks , 102 Book I. IMITATIONS OF HORACE .
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... remarks , Who rules.in Cornwall , or who rules in Berks : " This may be troublesome , is near the chair ; " That makes three members , this can chuse a may'r . " Instructed thus , you bow , embrace , protest , 105 Adopt him 2 son , or ...
... remarks , Who rules.in Cornwall , or who rules in Berks : " This may be troublesome , is near the chair ; " That makes three members , this can chuse a may'r . " Instructed thus , you bow , embrace , protest , 105 Adopt him 2 son , or ...
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... Remarks on Pr . Arthur . I CANNOT but think it the most reasonable thing in the world to distinguish good writers , by dis- couraging the bad : nor is it an ill - natured thing , in relation even to the very persons upon whom the ...
... Remarks on Pr . Arthur . I CANNOT but think it the most reasonable thing in the world to distinguish good writers , by dis- couraging the bad : nor is it an ill - natured thing , in relation even to the very persons upon whom the ...
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... MR . PRIOR himself , saying in his Alma ‡ , * Letter to B. B. at the end of the Remarks on Pope's Homer , 1717. Printed 1728 , p . 12 . Ama , canto : . " O Abelard ! Ill fated youth , Thy tale 24 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
... MR . PRIOR himself , saying in his Alma ‡ , * Letter to B. B. at the end of the Remarks on Pope's Homer , 1717. Printed 1728 , p . 12 . Ama , canto : . " O Abelard ! Ill fated youth , Thy tale 24 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
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... Remarks on the Rape of the Lock , p . 12. and in the last page of that treatise . + 1 Page 6 , 7 , of the preface , by Concanen , to a book entitled , A Collection of all the Letters , Essays . Verses , and Advertisements , occasioned ...
... Remarks on the Rape of the Lock , p . 12. and in the last page of that treatise . + 1 Page 6 , 7 , of the preface , by Concanen , to a book entitled , A Collection of all the Letters , Essays . Verses , and Advertisements , occasioned ...
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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...