Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1796 |
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... fire ! Let soft compassion touch your gentle mind ; Think ' tis Vertumnus begs you to be kind : So may no frost , when early buds appear , Destroy the promise of the youthful year ; Nor winds , when first your florid orchard blows ...
... fire ! Let soft compassion touch your gentle mind ; Think ' tis Vertumnus begs you to be kind : So may no frost , when early buds appear , Destroy the promise of the youthful year ; Nor winds , when first your florid orchard blows ...
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... fire . V. E. OF ROCHESTER . On Silence . I. SILENCE ! Coeval with eternity ; Thou wert , ere Nature's self began to be ; 1 ' Twas one vast nothing all , and all slept fast in thee . II . Thine was the sway , ere heav'n was form'd , or ...
... fire . V. E. OF ROCHESTER . On Silence . I. SILENCE ! Coeval with eternity ; Thou wert , ere Nature's self began to be ; 1 ' Twas one vast nothing all , and all slept fast in thee . II . Thine was the sway , ere heav'n was form'd , or ...
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... Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand , They rave , recite , and madden round the land . 5 What walls can guard me , or what shades can hide ? They pierce my thickets , through my grot they glide , By land , by water , they renew ...
... Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand , They rave , recite , and madden round the land . 5 What walls can guard me , or what shades can hide ? They pierce my thickets , through my grot they glide , By land , by water , they renew ...
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... fires True genius kindles , and fair fame inspires , Bless'd with each talent and each art to please , 195 And born to write , converse , and live with ease ; Should such a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no ...
... fires True genius kindles , and fair fame inspires , Bless'd with each talent and each art to please , 195 And born to write , converse , and live with ease ; Should such a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no ...
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... fire and force , Paint angels trembling round his falling horse ? F. Then all your Muse's softer art display , I Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay ; Lull with Amelia's liquid name the Nine , And sweetly flow thro ' all the royal line ...
... fire and force , Paint angels trembling round his falling horse ? F. Then all your Muse's softer art display , I Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay ; Lull with Amelia's liquid name the Nine , And sweetly flow thro ' all the royal line ...
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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...