The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Том 40 |
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His Grace ' s fate sage Cutler could fotesee , 315 And well ( he thought ) advis ' d
him , “ Live like me . ' As well his Grace reply ' d , “ Like you , Sir John ? u That I
can do , when all I have is gone ! " Resolve me , Reason , which of these is worse
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His Grace ' s fate sage Cutler could fotesee , 315 And well ( he thought ) advis ' d
him , “ Live like me . ' As well his Grace reply ' d , “ Like you , Sir John ? u That I
can do , when all I have is gone ! " Resolve me , Reason , which of these is worse
...
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And now the king , his royal feast to grace , Acestis calls , the guardian of his race
, Who first their youth in arts of virtue train ' d , And their ripe years in modest
grace maintain ' d ; 620 Then softly whisperd in her faithful ear , And bade his ...
And now the king , his royal feast to grace , Acestis calls , the guardian of his race
, Who first their youth in arts of virtue train ' d , And their ripe years in modest
grace maintain ' d ; 620 Then softly whisperd in her faithful ear , And bade his ...
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To laugh were want of goodness and of grace , 35 And to be grave exceeds all
pow ' r of face . I sit with sad civility , I read With honest anguish , and an aching
head , And drop at last , but in unwilling ears , This saving counsel , . Keep your ...
To laugh were want of goodness and of grace , 35 And to be grave exceeds all
pow ' r of face . I sit with sad civility , I read With honest anguish , and an aching
head , And drop at last , but in unwilling ears , This saving counsel , . Keep your ...
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Dorset , the grace of courts , the Muse ' s pride , Patron of arts , and judge of
Nature , dy ' d ; The scourge of pride , though sanctify ' d or great , Of fops in
learning , and of knaves in state ; Yet soft his nature , though severe his lay , His
anger ...
Dorset , the grace of courts , the Muse ' s pride , Patron of arts , and judge of
Nature , dy ' d ; The scourge of pride , though sanctify ' d or great , Of fops in
learning , and of knaves in state ; Yet soft his nature , though severe his lay , His
anger ...
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The Dutchess of Newcastle was one who busied her* self in the ravishing
delights of poetry ; leaving to posterity in . print three ample volumes of her
studious endeavors . Winstanley , ibid . Langbaine reckons up eight folios of her
Grace ' s ...
The Dutchess of Newcastle was one who busied her* self in the ravishing
delights of poetry ; leaving to posterity in . print three ample volumes of her
studious endeavors . Winstanley , ibid . Langbaine reckons up eight folios of her
Grace ' s ...
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Страница 134 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Страница 127 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Страница 134 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Страница 133 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Страница 138 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Страница 128 - 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 38 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
Страница 127 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Страница 131 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Страница 172 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.