The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Том 441790 |
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... mighty glad She went abroad - fhe ' d thought me mad . The hour of dining now is past : Well then , I'll e'en go home and fast ; And , fince I ' fcap'd being made a fcoff , I think I'm very fairly off . My Lady now returning home ...
... mighty glad She went abroad - fhe ' d thought me mad . The hour of dining now is past : Well then , I'll e'en go home and fast ; And , fince I ' fcap'd being made a fcoff , I think I'm very fairly off . My Lady now returning home ...
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... mighty power of use " Now ftrangely pleads in my excufe : " If you unus'd have scarcely strength " To gain this walk's untoward length ; " If , frighten'd at a scene so rude , " Through long difufe of folitude ; " If , long confin'd to ...
... mighty power of use " Now ftrangely pleads in my excufe : " If you unus'd have scarcely strength " To gain this walk's untoward length ; " If , frighten'd at a scene so rude , " Through long difufe of folitude ; " If , long confin'd to ...
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... mighty attainment ! And yet with what pomp is a trivial altera- tion ushered into the world ! Such writers are like Ca- ligula , who raised a mighty army , and alarmed the whole world , and then led it to gather cockle - fhells . In ...
... mighty attainment ! And yet with what pomp is a trivial altera- tion ushered into the world ! Such writers are like Ca- ligula , who raised a mighty army , and alarmed the whole world , and then led it to gather cockle - fhells . In ...
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... mighty advantage , if , while he difcovers more learning , he is found to have lefs virtue than his adverfary ? and , though he be a better critic , yet proves himself to be a worse man ? Befides , no one is to be envied the skill in ...
... mighty advantage , if , while he difcovers more learning , he is found to have lefs virtue than his adverfary ? and , though he be a better critic , yet proves himself to be a worse man ? Befides , no one is to be envied the skill in ...
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... mighty flood He led the murmuring crowd , What ail'd the rivers that they backward fled ? Why was the mighty flood afraid ? March'd he against the rivers ? or was he , Thou mighty flood ! difpleas'd at thee ? VARIATION . I fee his fword ...
... mighty flood He led the murmuring crowd , What ail'd the rivers that they backward fled ? Why was the mighty flood afraid ? March'd he against the rivers ? or was he , Thou mighty flood ! difpleas'd at thee ? VARIATION . I fee his fword ...
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Страница 12 - Must undergo the common fate; His kind of wit is out of date. Some country squire to Lintot goes, Inquires for "Swift in Verse and Prose." Says Lintot, "I have heard the name; He died a year ago."— "The same.
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...
Страница 96 - Let them rave at making laws ; While they never hold their tongue, Let them dabble in their dung : Let them form a grand committee, How to plague and starve the city ; Let them...
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...