The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Том 401807 |
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... honors rush into his lays ! And all that glorious warmth his lays reveal , Which only poets , kings , and patriots feel ! Tho ' gay as mirth , as curious thought sedate , As elegance polite , as power elate ; Profound as reason , and is ...
... honors rush into his lays ! And all that glorious warmth his lays reveal , Which only poets , kings , and patriots feel ! Tho ' gay as mirth , as curious thought sedate , As elegance polite , as power elate ; Profound as reason , and is ...
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... of Beauty glide , And haunt the places where their honor dy'd . See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics , and old age of cards ; 240 Fair to no purpose , artful to no end , 28 Epist . II . MORAL ESSAYS .
... of Beauty glide , And haunt the places where their honor dy'd . See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics , and old age of cards ; 240 Fair to no purpose , artful to no end , 28 Epist . II . MORAL ESSAYS .
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... honor linger ere it leaves the land . But all our praises why should lords engross ? Rise , honest Muse ! and sing the Man of Ross : 250 Pleas'd Vaga echoes through her winding bounds , And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds . Who ...
... honor linger ere it leaves the land . But all our praises why should lords engross ? Rise , honest Muse ! and sing the Man of Ross : 250 Pleas'd Vaga echoes through her winding bounds , And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds . Who ...
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... sea command , And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honors Peace to happy Britain brings ; These are imperial works , and worthy kings . 204 195 TO MR . ADDISON . * [ Occasioned by his 54 Epist . IV . MORAL ESSAYS .
... sea command , And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honors Peace to happy Britain brings ; These are imperial works , and worthy kings . 204 195 TO MR . ADDISON . * [ Occasioned by his 54 Epist . IV . MORAL ESSAYS .
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... honor clear ; Who broke no promise , serv'd no private end , ' Who gain'd no title , and who lost no friend ; • Ennobled by himself , by all approv'd , And prais'd unenvy'd by the Muse he lov'd . ' HER PROLOGUE . FROM CHAUCER . BEHOLD ...
... honor clear ; Who broke no promise , serv'd no private end , ' Who gain'd no title , and who lost no friend ; • Ennobled by himself , by all approv'd , And prais'd unenvy'd by the Muse he lov'd . ' HER PROLOGUE . FROM CHAUCER . BEHOLD ...
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Author bard Bavius beauty Behold bless'd Boileau charms Cibber court Criticism dæmon dear Dennis divine Dryden dull Dulness Dunciad EPISTLE Eridanus Essay Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate flame folly fool Francis Atterbury genius gentle Gildon Goddess grace hath hear heart Heav'n hero Homer honor Horace Iliad IMITATIONS kings knave laws learned Leonard Welsted Letter LEWIS THEOBALD live Lord lov'd Matthew Concanen MIST'S JOURNAL moral Muse ne'er never numbers o'er octavo once Ovid person pleas'd Poem poet poet's poor Pope pow'r praise pride printed proud Queen rage REMARKS rhymes rise sacred saith Sappho satire shade shew shine sing SMIL soft soul Swift tell thee thine things thou thought Town truth Twas verse Virg Virgil virtue Whig wife words wretched writ write youth
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Страница 132 - 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 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Страница 132 - 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 131 - 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 136 - 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 126 - 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 36 - 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 125 - 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 129 - 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 170 - 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,.