Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1796 |
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... honours prey . But from my branching arms this infant bear , Let some kind nurse supply a mother's care ; And to his mother let him oft be led , Sport in her shades , and in her shades be fed . Nil nisi jam faciem , quod non foret arbor ...
... honours prey . But from my branching arms this infant bear , Let some kind nurse supply a mother's care ; And to his mother let him oft be led , Sport in her shades , and in her shades be fed . Nil nisi jam faciem , quod non foret arbor ...
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... honours to their autumn join ; Exceed their promise in their ripen'd store , Yet in the rising blossom promise more . There in bright drops the crystal fountains play , By laurels shielded from the piercing day ; Where Daphne , now a ...
... honours to their autumn join ; Exceed their promise in their ripen'd store , Yet in the rising blossom promise more . There in bright drops the crystal fountains play , By laurels shielded from the piercing day ; Where Daphne , now a ...
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... honour of the wishing dame , The very want of tongue makes thee a kind of fame ! X. 26 But couldst thou seize some tongues that now are free , How church and state should be oblig'd to thee ! At senate , and at bar , how welcome wouldst ...
... honour of the wishing dame , The very want of tongue makes thee a kind of fame ! X. 26 But couldst thou seize some tongues that now are free , How church and state should be oblig'd to thee ! At senate , and at bar , how welcome wouldst ...
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... honour on my side , that where- as , by their proceeding , any abuse may be directed at any man , no injury can possibly be done by mine , since a nameless character can never be found out but by its truth and likeness . Volume III . D ...
... honour on my side , that where- as , by their proceeding , any abuse may be directed at any man , no injury can possibly be done by mine , since a nameless character can never be found out but by its truth and likeness . Volume III . D ...
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... approve , And show the sense of it , without the love ; Who has the vanity to call you Friend , Yet wants the honour , injur'd , to defend ; 290 ! 295 Who tells whate'er you think , whate'er you say , PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES . 43.
... approve , And show the sense of it , without the love ; Who has the vanity to call you Friend , Yet wants the honour , injur'd , to defend ; 290 ! 295 Who tells whate'er you think , whate'er you say , PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES . 43.
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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...