The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 11Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... playing round it , made it sweet : So finely mix'd , had Nature dar'd t ' afford 95 One leaft perfection more , h ' had been ador'd . Merciful , juft , good - natur'd , liberal , brave , Witty , and pleasure's friend , yet not her flave ...
... playing round it , made it sweet : So finely mix'd , had Nature dar'd t ' afford 95 One leaft perfection more , h ' had been ador'd . Merciful , juft , good - natur'd , liberal , brave , Witty , and pleasure's friend , yet not her flave ...
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... play'd ; Where honesty and wit are often prais'd , But fools and knaves are fortunate and rais'd ; My forward fpirit prompted me to find A converfe equal to my mind : But by raw judgment easily misled , ( As giddy callow boys Are very ...
... play'd ; Where honesty and wit are often prais'd , But fools and knaves are fortunate and rais'd ; My forward fpirit prompted me to find A converfe equal to my mind : But by raw judgment easily misled , ( As giddy callow boys Are very ...
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... , And only in the dark he strays ; Still wretch enough to live , with worse fools spends his days , And for old fhoes and feraps repeats dull plays . Then Then next there follow'd , to make up the throng 34 POEMS . OTWAY'S.
... , And only in the dark he strays ; Still wretch enough to live , with worse fools spends his days , And for old fhoes and feraps repeats dull plays . Then Then next there follow'd , to make up the throng 34 POEMS . OTWAY'S.
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... play . Then did the English lion roar , Whilft the Belgian couchant lay . Big with the thoughts of conqueft and renown , Of Britain's honour , and his own , To them he like a threatening comet fhin'd , Rough as the fea , and furious as ...
... play . Then did the English lion roar , Whilft the Belgian couchant lay . Big with the thoughts of conqueft and renown , Of Britain's honour , and his own , To them he like a threatening comet fhin'd , Rough as the fea , and furious as ...
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... play , and pretty charms : And as to give the farewel kiss he near it drew , About his manly neck two little arms it threw ; Smil'd in his eyes , as if it begg'd his stay , And look'd kind things it could not say . XXI . But the great ...
... play , and pretty charms : And as to give the farewel kiss he near it drew , About his manly neck two little arms it threw ; Smil'd in his eyes , as if it begg'd his stay , And look'd kind things it could not say . XXI . But the great ...
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Страница 151 - prove kind, And fill our empty brain ; Yet if rough Neptune rouze the wind, To wave the azure main, Our paper, pen, and ink, and we, Roll up and down our fhips at fea, With a fa, &c.
Страница 152 - The Dutch would fcorn fo weak a foe, And quit their fort at Goree : For what refiftance can they find From men who've left their hearts behind ! With a fa, .&c. * VI. Let wind and weather do its
Страница 151 - How hard it is to write ; The Mufes now, and Neptune too, We muft implore to write to you, With a fa, la, la, la, la. II.
Страница 153 - When any mournful tune you hear, That dies in every note ; As if it figh'd with each man's care, For being fo remote ; Think how often love we've
Страница 22 - By titles, which but few can boaft, A moft juft mafter, and a faithful friend ? One who never yet did wrong To high or low, to old or young ? Of him what orphan can complain ? Of him what widow make her moan? But fuch as wifh him here again, And mifs his goodnefs now
Страница 23 - With fpoils of viftory and glory fraught. To him then every heart was open, down From the great man to the clown : In him rejoic'd, to him inclin'd ; And as his health round the glad board did pafs, Each honeft fellow cry'd, Fill full my glafs; And fhew'd the fullnefs of his mind. No
Страница 44 - vain have prov'd the labours of the ftage, -*.-*- In ftriving to reclaim a vicious age ! Poets may write, the mifchief to impeach ; You care as little what the poets teach, As you regard at church what parfons preach. But where fuch follies and fuch vices reign, What honeft pen
Страница 46 - weary marches, fleeplefs nights, For this feeds hard, and lodges cold ; Which can't be bought with hills of gold. Since wealth and power too weak we find, To quell the tumults of the mind ; Or from the monarch's roofs of
Страница 21 - Ballads, and all the fpurious excefs Of ills that malice could devife, Or ever fwarm'd from a licentious prefs, Hung round about him like a fpell : And in his own hand too was writ, That worthy piece of modern wit, The country's late appeal. But from fuch ills when will our wretched
Страница 48 - of eager love, She coldly calls me friend. Ah, Sylvia ! thus in vain you ftrive To aft a healer's part, 'Twill keep but lingering pain alive, Alas ! and break my heart. When, on my lonely, penfive bed I lay me down to reft, In hope to calm my raging head, And cool my burning breaft. Her cruelty all