The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Том 401807 |
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... morals , so sublime her views , His life is almost equall'd by his Muse . SAVAGE . IN ELEVEN VOLUMES . VOL . III . London : Printed for Cadell and Davies ; Longman , Hurst , Rees and Orme ; Nichols and Son ; J. Walker ; Wilkie and ...
... morals , so sublime her views , His life is almost equall'd by his Muse . SAVAGE . IN ELEVEN VOLUMES . VOL . III . London : Printed for Cadell and Davies ; Longman , Hurst , Rees and Orme ; Nichols and Son ; J. Walker ; Wilkie and ...
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... , together with those which are unuseful , and therefore unattainable . 3. Of the nature , ends , use , and application , of the dif- POPE , VOL . 111 , A ferent capacities of men . 4. Of the use of MORAL ESSAYS , ADVERTISEMENT.
... , together with those which are unuseful , and therefore unattainable . 3. Of the nature , ends , use , and application , of the dif- POPE , VOL . 111 , A ferent capacities of men . 4. Of the use of MORAL ESSAYS , ADVERTISEMENT.
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... morality , considered in all the circumstances , orders , professions , and sta- tions , of human life . The scheme of all this had been maturely digested , and communicated to L. Bolingbroke , Dr. Swift , and one or two more , and was ...
... morality , considered in all the circumstances , orders , professions , and sta- tions , of human life . The scheme of all this had been maturely digested , and communicated to L. Bolingbroke , Dr. Swift , and one or two more , and was ...
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... be chiefly delivered in feigned examples . The Fourth , and last Book , was to pursue the sub- ject of the fourth Epistle of the First , and treats of ethics , or practical morality , and would have A 2 ADVERTISEMENT . ་ ་
... be chiefly delivered in feigned examples . The Fourth , and last Book , was to pursue the sub- ject of the fourth Epistle of the First , and treats of ethics , or practical morality , and would have A 2 ADVERTISEMENT . ་ ་
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... last breath v . 222 , & c . PART I. YES , you despise the man to books confin'd , Who from his study rails at human kind ; advance 5 Though what he learns he speaks , and A 3 MORAL ESSAYS . Of the Knowledge and Charac- ters of Men.
... last breath v . 222 , & c . PART I. YES , you despise the man to books confin'd , Who from his study rails at human kind ; advance 5 Though what he learns he speaks , and A 3 MORAL ESSAYS . Of the Knowledge and Charac- ters of Men.
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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,.