The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen20Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fafe defign , And on no other bufinefs but to dine The Faculty had still maintain'd their fway , And intereft then had bid us but obey ; This only emulation we had known , ; Who beft could fill his purfe , and thin the town . But now ...
... fafe defign , And on no other bufinefs but to dine The Faculty had still maintain'd their fway , And intereft then had bid us but obey ; This only emulation we had known , ; Who beft could fill his purfe , and thin the town . But now ...
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... fafe in filence fleeps ; Where mushroom libels in oblivion lie , And , foon as born , like other monsters , die , Upon a couch of jet , in these abodes , Dull Night , his melancholy confort , nods . No ways and means their cabinet ...
... fafe in filence fleeps ; Where mushroom libels in oblivion lie , And , foon as born , like other monsters , die , Upon a couch of jet , in these abodes , Dull Night , his melancholy confort , nods . No ways and means their cabinet ...
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... fafe through the rolling flood . Nor are the effays of the Female wit Lefs charming in the verfes they have writ . From ancient ages , Love has found the way Its bafhful thoughts by Letters to convey ; Which fometimes run in fuch ...
... fafe through the rolling flood . Nor are the effays of the Female wit Lefs charming in the verfes they have writ . From ancient ages , Love has found the way Its bafhful thoughts by Letters to convey ; Which fometimes run in fuch ...
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... fafe retreat , the fweet repofe , Can footh and calm afflicted Virtue's woes ; He is the folid , firm , unfhaken force , 310 315 320 That only knows to ftem th ' invader's course . So when a river , fwell'd with Winter's rains , The ...
... fafe retreat , the fweet repofe , Can footh and calm afflicted Virtue's woes ; He is the folid , firm , unfhaken force , 310 315 320 That only knows to ftem th ' invader's course . So when a river , fwell'd with Winter's rains , The ...
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... fafe in the deep , " Shall hear no cannons ' roar disturb their sleep ; " But fmootheft tides and the moft halcyon gales " Shall to their port direct Britannia's fails . 115 " Ye Tritons , fons of Gods ! ' tis my command , 120 " That ...
... fafe in the deep , " Shall hear no cannons ' roar disturb their sleep ; " But fmootheft tides and the moft halcyon gales " Shall to their port direct Britannia's fails . 115 " Ye Tritons , fons of Gods ! ' tis my command , 120 " That ...
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Página 114 - How needless if you knew us, were your fears ? Let Love have eyes, and Beauty will have ears. Our hearts are form'd, as you...
Página 195 - Ingenious Lister, were a picture drawn, With Cynthia's face, but with a neck like Brawn ; With wings of Turkey, and with feet of Calf, Though drawn by Kneller, it would make you laugh.
Página 104 - Gentiles' great apostle's name, With grace divine great Anna's seen to rise, An awful form, that glads a nation's eyes. Beneath her feet four mighty realms appear, And with due reverence pay their homage there) Britain and Ireland seem to owe her grace, And e'en wild India wears a smiling face.
Página 149 - Or change our natures, or reform your laws. Unhappy partner of my killing pain, Think what I feel the moment you complain. Each figh you utter wounds my tendereft part, So much my lips mifreprefent my heart.
Página 131 - Oile'us forc'd the Trojan maid, Yet all were punish'd for the brutal deed. A storm begins, the raging waves run high, The clouds look heavy, and benight the sky; Red sheets of light'ning o'er the seas are spread, Our tackling yields, and wrecks at last succeed.
Página 229 - I take imitation of an author, in their sense, to be an endeavour of a later poet to write like one who has written before him, on the same subject : that is, not to translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country.
Página 192 - Valentine accosts his boy with these lines, which would draw tears from any thing that is not marble : " Hang up thy wallet on that tree, And creep thou in this hollow place with me ; Let's here repose our wearied limbs till they more wearied be ! Bor.
Página 164 - Clafficks, as if we were never to get higher than our Tully or our Virgil. You tantalize me only when you tell me of the edition of a book by the ingenious Dr. Lifter, which you fay is a treatife D« Candimenth et Ogfoniit yeterumt " Of the Sauces and Soups of the Ancients,
Página 114 - Even churches are no sanctuaries now : There, golden idols all your vows receive, She is no goddess that has nought to give.
Página 189 - The Art of Cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry, with some Letters to Dr. Lister...