The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Том 441790 |
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English poets. As foon as you can hear his knell , This god on earth turns devil in hell : And lo ! his ministers of state , Transform'd to imps , his levee wait ; Where , in the scenes of endless woe , They ply their former arts below ...
English poets. As foon as you can hear his knell , This god on earth turns devil in hell : And lo ! his ministers of state , Transform'd to imps , his levee wait ; Where , in the scenes of endless woe , They ply their former arts below ...
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... earth fo fair as Iris ? With heavenly beauty fo endow'd ? And yet her father is a cloud . We drest her in a gold brocade , Befitting Juno's favourite maid ' . ' Tis known , that Socrates the wife Ador'd us clouds as deities : To us he ...
... earth fo fair as Iris ? With heavenly beauty fo endow'd ? And yet her father is a cloud . We drest her in a gold brocade , Befitting Juno's favourite maid ' . ' Tis known , that Socrates the wife Ador'd us clouds as deities : To us he ...
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... earth : but by the attempt they only betray their own inability ; Jupiter is ftill Jupiter , and by their unavailing efforts they manifeft his fupe- riority . Modesty is effential to true criticism : no man has a title to be a dictator ...
... earth : but by the attempt they only betray their own inability ; Jupiter is ftill Jupiter , and by their unavailing efforts they manifeft his fupe- riority . Modesty is effential to true criticism : no man has a title to be a dictator ...
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... earth He scatter'd war , and plagues , and dearth ! VOL . XLIV . L And And when he spoke , The everlafting hills from their Of envious and malicious Critics ibid The Third Chapter of Habbakkuk paraphrafed An Ode Written in 1710.
... earth He scatter'd war , and plagues , and dearth ! VOL . XLIV . L And And when he spoke , The everlafting hills from their Of envious and malicious Critics ibid The Third Chapter of Habbakkuk paraphrafed An Ode Written in 1710.
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... envious fickness ftole away ! Welcome as those which kindly bring , And ufher in the joyous fpring ; That That to the fmiling earth restore The beauteous herb , 150 BROOME'S POEM S. To Belinda, on her Sicknefs and Recovery.
... envious fickness ftole away ! Welcome as those which kindly bring , And ufher in the joyous fpring ; That That to the fmiling earth restore The beauteous herb , 150 BROOME'S POEM S. To Belinda, on her Sicknefs and Recovery.
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Страница 5 - Tis all on me an usurpation. I have no title to aspire ; Yet, when you sink, I seem the higher; In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six, It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry :
Страница 10 - He'll treat me as he does my betters, Publish my will, my life, my letters ; Revive the libels born to die : Which Pope must bear as well as I. Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament.
Страница 5 - I grieve to be outdone by Gay In my own hum'rous biting way. Arbuthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refin'd it first, and shew'd its use.
Страница 12 - To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme : His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste. I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.
Страница 11 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Страница 30 - When beasts could speak, (the learned say They still can do so every day,) It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men. It happen'd, when a plague broke out, (Which therefore made them more devout...
Страница 54 - The vilest verse thrives best at court. A pamphlet in sir Bob's defence Will never fail to bring in pence : Nor be concern'd about the sale, He pays his workmen on the nail. A prince, the moment he is crown'd...
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Страница 6 - To hear his out-of-fashion wit? But he takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. Faith, he must make his stories shorter...