The Works of the English Poets: Denham and SprattH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... wife advice , it car- ries much greater weight with it now , than when it was given ; for when age and experience has fo ri- pened man's difcretion as to make it fit for use , cither in private or public affairs , nothing blasts and ...
... wife advice , it car- ries much greater weight with it now , than when it was given ; for when age and experience has fo ri- pened man's difcretion as to make it fit for use , cither in private or public affairs , nothing blasts and ...
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... wife maker's , than beholder's fight . Though thefe delights from feveral caufes move For fo our children , thus our friends we love ) Wifely the knew , the harmony of things , As well as that of founds , from difcord fprings . Such was ...
... wife maker's , than beholder's fight . Though thefe delights from feveral caufes move For fo our children , thus our friends we love ) Wifely the knew , the harmony of things , As well as that of founds , from difcord fprings . Such was ...
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... wife , Or chafes him from thence , or from him flies , Like a declining statesman , left forlorn To his friends ' pity , and purfuers ' scorn , With fhame remembers , while himself was one Of the fame herd , himself the fame had done ...
... wife , Or chafes him from thence , or from him flies , Like a declining statesman , left forlorn To his friends ' pity , and purfuers ' scorn , With fhame remembers , while himself was one Of the fame herd , himself the fame had done ...
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... wife referv'd , When to the aged king , her little son She would prefent ) ; through this we pafs , and run Up to the highest battlement , from whence The Trojans threw their darts without offence , A tower fo high , it feem'd to reach ...
... wife referv'd , When to the aged king , her little son She would prefent ) ; through this we pafs , and run Up to the highest battlement , from whence The Trojans threw their darts without offence , A tower fo high , it feem'd to reach ...
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... wives , As doves whom an approaching tempest drives And frights into one flock ; but having spy'd Old Priam clad in youthful arms , she cried , Alas , my wretched husband , what pretence To bear those arms , and in them what defence ...
... wives , As doves whom an approaching tempest drives And frights into one flock ; but having spy'd Old Priam clad in youthful arms , she cried , Alas , my wretched husband , what pretence To bear those arms , and in them what defence ...
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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.