The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 40Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... boast , From fleets triumphant o'er the Gallic coaft . Such was Ierne's claim , as just as thine , Her fons defcended from the British line ; B 3 Her Her matchlefs fons , whofe valour ftill remains On French HORACE , BOOK I. ODE XIV .
... boast , From fleets triumphant o'er the Gallic coaft . Such was Ierne's claim , as just as thine , Her fons defcended from the British line ; B 3 Her Her matchlefs fons , whofe valour ftill remains On French HORACE , BOOK I. ODE XIV .
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... o'er - run . Ierne , to the world's remotest parts , Renown'd for valour , policy , and arts . Hither from Colchos † , with the fleecy ore , Jafon arriv'd two thoufand years before . Thee , happy ifland , Pallas call'd her own , When ...
... o'er - run . Ierne , to the world's remotest parts , Renown'd for valour , policy , and arts . Hither from Colchos † , with the fleecy ore , Jafon arriv'd two thoufand years before . Thee , happy ifland , Pallas call'd her own , When ...
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... o'er - run . * Ierne , to the world's remotest parts , Renown'd for valour , policy , and arts . Hither from Colchos † , with the fleecy ore , Jafon arriv'd two thousand years before . Thee , happy ifland , Pallas call'd her own , When ...
... o'er - run . * Ierne , to the world's remotest parts , Renown'd for valour , policy , and arts . Hither from Colchos † , with the fleecy ore , Jafon arriv'd two thousand years before . Thee , happy ifland , Pallas call'd her own , When ...
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... O'er mountains steep , o'er dufty plains , Half choak'd with duft , half drown'd with rains ; Only your Godship to implore , To let me kifs your other fhore ? A boon fo fmall ! but I may weep , Whilft you ' re , like Baal , faft afleep ...
... O'er mountains steep , o'er dufty plains , Half choak'd with duft , half drown'd with rains ; Only your Godship to implore , To let me kifs your other fhore ? A boon fo fmall ! but I may weep , Whilft you ' re , like Baal , faft afleep ...
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... o'er a pot of ale ) Related thus the following tale . Poffeffion , and Defire his brother , But ftill at variance with each other , Were feen contending in a race ; And kept at first an equal pace : ' Tis faid , their course continued ...
... o'er a pot of ale ) Related thus the following tale . Poffeffion , and Defire his brother , But ftill at variance with each other , Were feen contending in a race ; And kept at first an equal pace : ' Tis faid , their course continued ...
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Страница 250 - dead, Than all the fnivelers round my bed. My good companions, never fear; ' For though you may miftake a year, Though your prognoftics run too faft, 145 They mu'ft be verify'd at laft. Behold the fatal day arrive ! *' How is the Dean ?''—" He 's juft alive." Now the departing prayer is read ; He hardly breathes — The Dean is dead.
Страница 276 - And, when his medicines do no good, Supports their minds with heavenly food, At which, however well intended, He hears the clergy are offended ; And grown fo bold behind his back, To call him hypocrite and quack. In his own church he keeps a feat ; Says grace before and after meat; And calls, without affefting airs, His
Страница 221 - Untwifts a wire, and from her gums A fet of teeth completely comes. Pulls out the rags contriv'd to prop Her flabby dugs, and down they drop. Proceeding on, the lovely Goddefs Unlaces next her fteel-ribb'd bodice, Which, by the operator's fkill, Prefs down the lumps, the hollows fill. Up goes her hand, and off
Страница 72 - four o'clock." The chairmen are not to be found, " Come, let us play the other round." Now all in hafte they huddle on Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone ; But, firft, the winner muft invite The company to-morrow night. Unlucky madam, left in tears ..(Who now again quadrille forfwears), With empty
Страница 254 - To fancy they could live a year ! " I find you 're but a ftranger here. " The Dean was famous in his time, " And had a kind of knack at rhyme. " His way of writing now is paft
Страница 149 - Do but hear on the Clergy how glib his tongue ran ; " And, madam, fays he, if fuch dinners you give, " You'll ne'er want for Parfons as long as you live. " I ne'er knew a Parfon without a good nofe;
Страница 14 - to wrap up fpice. Get all your verfes printed fair, Then let them well be dried ; And Curll muft have a fpecial care To leave the margin wide. Lend thefe to paper-fparing* Pope; And when he fits to write, No letter with an envelope Could give him more delight. When Pope has fill'd the margins round, Why then recall your loan
Страница 145 - And not among ladies to give themfelves airs." .? Thus argued my Lady, but argued in vain ; The Knight his opinion refolved to maintain. But Hannah f, who liften'd to all that was paft, . ] And could not endure fo vulgar a tafte, * A cant word in Ireland for a poor country clergyman. F.
Страница 145 - But a rabble of tenants, and rufty dull * Rums. " With Parfons what lady can keep herfelf clean ? . " I 'm all over daub'd when I fit by the Dean. ; " But if you will give us a barrack, my dear, , ! " The Captain, I 'm fure, will always come here; ,
Страница 64 - for not a line Of all the fatire fliall be mine. Compell'd by you to tag in rhymes The common flanders of the times, Of modern times, the guilt is yours. And me my innocence fecures. Unwilling Mufe, begin thy lay, The annals of a female day. By nature turn'd to play the rake