The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Том 401807 |
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... truth severe ; As bounty copious , as persuasion weet , Like Nature various and like Art complete ; So fine her morals , so sublime her views , His life is almost equall'd by his Muse . SAVAGE . IN ELEVEN VOLUMES . VOL . III . London ...
... truth severe ; As bounty copious , as persuasion weet , Like Nature various and like Art complete ; So fine her morals , so sublime her views , His life is almost equall'd by his Muse . SAVAGE . IN ELEVEN VOLUMES . VOL . III . London ...
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... truth itself's a lie ; Unthought - of frailties cheat us in the wise ; The fool lies hid in inconsistencies , See the same man in vigor , in the gout ; Alone , in company ; in place , or out ; Early at bus'ness , and at hazard late ...
... truth itself's a lie ; Unthought - of frailties cheat us in the wise ; The fool lies hid in inconsistencies , See the same man in vigor , in the gout ; Alone , in company ; in place , or out ; Early at bus'ness , and at hazard late ...
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... truth , the man but chang'd his mind , Perhaps was sick , in love , or had not din'd . Ask why from Britain Cæsar would retreat ? Cæsar himself might whisper he was beat . Why risk the world's great empire for a punk ? Cæsar perhaps ...
... truth , the man but chang'd his mind , Perhaps was sick , in love , or had not din'd . Ask why from Britain Cæsar would retreat ? Cæsar himself might whisper he was beat . Why risk the world's great empire for a punk ? Cæsar perhaps ...
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... ) be seen , Which Heav'n has varnish'd out and made a queen ; The same for ever ! and describ'd by all With truth and goodness , as with crown and ball , Poets heap virtues , painters gems , at will , 26 Epist . II . MORAL ESSAYS .
... ) be seen , Which Heav'n has varnish'd out and made a queen ; The same for ever ! and describ'd by all With truth and goodness , as with crown and ball , Poets heap virtues , painters gems , at will , 26 Epist . II . MORAL ESSAYS .
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... truth ally'd , Courage with softness , modesty with pride ; Fix'd principles , with fancy ever new ; Shakes all together , and produces - you . 280 Be this a Woman's fame : with this unblest , Toasts live a scorn , and queens may die a ...
... truth ally'd , Courage with softness , modesty with pride ; Fix'd principles , with fancy ever new ; Shakes all together , and produces - you . 280 Be this a Woman's fame : with this unblest , Toasts live a scorn , and queens may die a ...
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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,.