The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... thou must write the pocfy there , For it wanteth one as yet , Tho'the fun pass through't twice a year , The fun , which is cfteem'd the god of Wit . COWLEY . The difficulties which have been raifed about identity in philofophy , are by ...
... thou must write the pocfy there , For it wanteth one as yet , Tho'the fun pass through't twice a year , The fun , which is cfteem'd the god of Wit . COWLEY . The difficulties which have been raifed about identity in philofophy , are by ...
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... thou not found , each woman's breaft ( The lands where thou haft travelled ) Either by favages poffeft , Or wild , and uninhabited ? What joy could'ft take , or what repose In countries fo uncivilis'd as thofe ? Luft , the fcorching dog ...
... thou not found , each woman's breaft ( The lands where thou haft travelled ) Either by favages poffeft , Or wild , and uninhabited ? What joy could'ft take , or what repose In countries fo uncivilis'd as thofe ? Luft , the fcorching dog ...
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... thou intend By candle's end , And hold the contraft thus in doubt , Life's taper out ? Think but how foon the market fails , Your fex lives fafter than the males ; As As if tô measure age's fpan , me HĄ The COWLEY . 63.
... thou intend By candle's end , And hold the contraft thus in doubt , Life's taper out ? Think but how foon the market fails , Your fex lives fafter than the males ; As As if tô measure age's fpan , me HĄ The COWLEY . 63.
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... d is to burn ! Once dead , how can it be ,! Death fhould a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou shouldft come to live it : oler › again in me ? COWLEY . ANT A lover's Pirk A lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo σ o W LEY 13.
... d is to burn ! Once dead , how can it be ,! Death fhould a thing so pleasant seem to thee , That thou shouldft come to live it : oler › again in me ? COWLEY . ANT A lover's Pirk A lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo σ o W LEY 13.
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... Thou in my fancy doft much higher ftand , Than women can be plac'd by Nature's hand ; And I must needs ,. I'm fure , a lofer be , To change thee , as thou'rt there , for very thee . 1 * P T That prayer and labour fhould co operate , are ...
... Thou in my fancy doft much higher ftand , Than women can be plac'd by Nature's hand ; And I must needs ,. I'm fure , a lofer be , To change thee , as thou'rt there , for very thee . 1 * P T That prayer and labour fhould co operate , are ...
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Страница 4 - monly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, Accidentally determined to fome particular direction; The great painter of | the prefent age had the firft fondnefs ; -for his art excited by the perufal of / Richardfon's treatife. • By his mother's felicitation he was Admitted into
Страница 3 - from Sprat's account, that he always acknowledged her care, and juftly paid the dues of filial gratitude. * In the window of his mother's apartment lay Spenfer's Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of verfe, he became, as he relates,
Страница 76 - It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who muft Like th' other foot, obliquely run. Thy firmnefs makes my
Страница 96 - between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the merey of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The eflence of poetry is invention; fuch invention as, by producing
Страница 39 - blows; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you. But, you of learning and religion, And virtue and fuch ingredients, have made A mithridate, whofe operation Keeps off, or cures what can be done or faid. Though the following lines of Donne, on the laft night of the year, havefomething in them too
Страница 78 - tis not to adorn and gild each part, That fhews more coft than art.. Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear; Rather than all things wit, let none be there. Several lights will not be feen, If there be nothing
Страница 111 - narrative, .and to repofe on its veracity with fuch humble confidence, as fupprefles curiofity. We go with the hiftorian as he goes, and flop with him when he flops. All amplification is frivolous and vain; all addition to that which is already fufficient for the purpofes of religion,
Страница 24 - that were placed near. him, and then went with them out of the church, leaving the reft in folicitude and amazement. They immediately fent guards to proper places, and that night apprehended Tomkyns and Waller; having yet traced nothing but that letters had been intercepted, from which it appeared that the parliament and the
Страница 31 - not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who