The Works of the English Poets: Denham and SprattH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... hither ? Though more our money than our cause Their brotherly affiftance draws , My labour was not loft , At thence At my return I brought you Neceffity , their 58 DENHA M'S POEMS . A Speech against Peace at the Clofe Committee.
... hither ? Though more our money than our cause Their brotherly affiftance draws , My labour was not loft , At thence At my return I brought you Neceffity , their 58 DENHA M'S POEMS . A Speech against Peace at the Clofe Committee.
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... labour'd births of flavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrownefs affords No flight for thoughts , but poorly sticks at words . A new and nobler way thou doft pursue To make tranflations and ...
... labour'd births of flavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrownefs affords No flight for thoughts , but poorly sticks at words . A new and nobler way thou doft pursue To make tranflations and ...
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... labour loft . Then the deceives her fifter with a smile : Anne in the inner court erect a pile ; Thereon his arms and once - lov'd portrait lay , Thither our fatal marriage - bed convey ; All curfed monuments of him with fire We must ...
... labour loft . Then the deceives her fifter with a smile : Anne in the inner court erect a pile ; Thereon his arms and once - lov'd portrait lay , Thither our fatal marriage - bed convey ; All curfed monuments of him with fire We must ...
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... labour are releas'd , Yet our minds find ( ev'n when we sleep ) no rest . Search not to find how other men offend , But by that glafs thy own offences mend ; Still feek to learn , yet care not much from whom , ( So it be learning ) or ...
... labour are releas'd , Yet our minds find ( ev'n when we sleep ) no rest . Search not to find how other men offend , But by that glafs thy own offences mend ; Still feek to learn , yet care not much from whom , ( So it be learning ) or ...
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... labours are the chariots of my mind . To ferve my friends , the fenate I frequent , And there , what I before digefted , vent . Which only from my strength of mind proceeds , Not any outward force of body needs : Which , if I could not ...
... labours are the chariots of my mind . To ferve my friends , the fenate I frequent , And there , what I before digefted , vent . Which only from my strength of mind proceeds , Not any outward force of body needs : Which , if I could not ...
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Página 57 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, •/ Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear...
Página 21 - First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swells: Stronger, and fiercer by restraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores.
Página 15 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Página 14 - Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a...
Página 18 - All instruments, all arts of ruin met; He calls to mind his strength, and then his speed, His winged heels, and then his armed head; With these t' avoid, with that his fate to meet; But fear prevails and bids him trust his feet.
Página 293 - Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. The time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine? The present moment's all my lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine. Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I by miracle can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heaven allows.
Página 314 - Likes me abundantly ; but you take care Upon this point, not to be too severe. Perhaps my muse were fitter for this part, For I profess I can be very smart On wit, which I abhor with all my heart.
Página 335 - If those gross faults his choice pen doth commit Proceed from want of judgment, or of wit ? Or if his lumpish fancy does refuse Spirit and grace to his loose slattern Muse ? Five hundred verses every morning writ, Prove him no more a poet than a wit...
Página 53 - How unconcern'd in things to come ! if here uneasy, finds at Rome, at Paris, or Madrid, his home. Secure from low and private ends, his life, his zeal, his wealth attends his prince, his country, and his friends.
Página 58 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear} He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.