New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1824 |
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... learned show , Provides each animal its foe ; Hounds hunt the hare , the wily fox Devours your geese , the wolf your flocks : Thus Envy pleads a natural claim To persecute the Muses ' fame , On poets in all times abusive , From Homer ...
... learned show , Provides each animal its foe ; Hounds hunt the hare , the wily fox Devours your geese , the wolf your flocks : Thus Envy pleads a natural claim To persecute the Muses ' fame , On poets in all times abusive , From Homer ...
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... learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew . Your poem in its modish dress , Correctly fitted for the press , Convey by penny - post to Lintot , But let no friend alive look into't . If Lintot thinks ' twill quit the cost ...
... learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew . Your poem in its modish dress , Correctly fitted for the press , Convey by penny - post to Lintot , But let no friend alive look into't . If Lintot thinks ' twill quit the cost ...
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... learned and candid friend , to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use of theirs as they have done of mine . However , I shall have this advantage and honour on my side , that whereas , by their proceeding , any abuse may be ...
... learned and candid friend , to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use of theirs as they have done of mine . However , I shall have this advantage and honour on my side , that whereas , by their proceeding , any abuse may be ...
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... learned shelves , Notes upon books outdo the books themselves . Critics indeed are valuable men , But hypercritics are as good agen . [ tures fill , Though Blackmore's works my soul with rap- With notes by Bentley they'd be better still ...
... learned shelves , Notes upon books outdo the books themselves . Critics indeed are valuable men , But hypercritics are as good agen . [ tures fill , Though Blackmore's works my soul with rap- With notes by Bentley they'd be better still ...
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... learned rout , And choose a female doctor for the gout . Thus would I live with no dull pedants cursed , Sure , of all blockheads , scholars are the worst . Back to your universities , ye fools , And dangle arguments on strings in ...
... learned rout , And choose a female doctor for the gout . Thus would I live with no dull pedants cursed , Sure , of all blockheads , scholars are the worst . Back to your universities , ye fools , And dangle arguments on strings in ...
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Страница 2 - A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Страница 1 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Страница 363 - Much wonder'd that the silly sheep had found Such cause of terror in an empty sound, So sweet to huntsman, gentleman, and hound. MORAL. Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.
Страница 336 - When, pop! she starts before their nose; As eager runs the market-crowd, When 'Catch the thief!' resounds aloud; So Maggie runs, the witches follow, Wi' mony an eldritch skreech and hollow.
Страница 87 - He, who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning: And He, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not Poetry, but prose run mad: All these, my modest Satire bade translate, And own'd that nine such Poets made a late.
Страница 331 - The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious: The Souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy: As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,...
Страница 333 - And thro' the whins, and by the cairn, Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; And near the thorn, aboon the well, Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel. Before him Doon pours all his floods; The doubling storm roars thro' the woods; The lightnings flash from pole to pole; Near and more near the thunders roll: When, glimmering thro' the groaning trees, Kirk-Alloway seemed in a bleeze, Thro' ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers...
Страница 331 - That ilka melder, wi' the miller, Thou sat as lang as thou had siller ; That ev'ry naig was ca'da shoe on, The smith and thee gat roaring fou on ; That at the Lord's house, ev'n on Sunday, Thou drank wi
Страница 82 - Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws, Imputes to me and my dainn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Страница 2 - In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...