The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen46Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... mean restraint ; When generous will is curb'd by tyrant want ? He truly feels what to diftrefs belongs , Who to his private , adds a people's wrongs ; Merit's a mark , at which disgrace is thrown , Merit THE WANDERER , CANTO V. 59.
... mean restraint ; When generous will is curb'd by tyrant want ? He truly feels what to diftrefs belongs , Who to his private , adds a people's wrongs ; Merit's a mark , at which disgrace is thrown , Merit THE WANDERER , CANTO V. 59.
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... wrongs a shade ? In power we favage tyranny behold , And wily avarice owns polluted gold . 145 150 From golden fands her pride could Libya raise , Could the , who spreads no pafture , claim our praise ? Loath'd were her wealth , where ...
... wrongs a shade ? In power we favage tyranny behold , And wily avarice owns polluted gold . 145 150 From golden fands her pride could Libya raise , Could the , who spreads no pafture , claim our praise ? Loath'd were her wealth , where ...
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... wrongs , and brightens into day . Thus unprophetic , lately misinfpir'd , I fung : Gay fluttering hope , my fancy fir'd ; Inly fecure , through conscious scorn of ill , Nor taught by wisdom , how to balance will , Rafhly deceiv'd , I ...
... wrongs , and brightens into day . Thus unprophetic , lately misinfpir'd , I fung : Gay fluttering hope , my fancy fir'd ; Inly fecure , through conscious scorn of ill , Nor taught by wisdom , how to balance will , Rafhly deceiv'd , I ...
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... wrongs :: Who ftill make public property your care , And thence bid private grief no more defpair . 40 Ask they what ftate your sheltering care shall own ? Tis youth , ' tis age , the cottage , and the throne : Nor 45 Nor can the prifon ...
... wrongs :: Who ftill make public property your care , And thence bid private grief no more defpair . 40 Ask they what ftate your sheltering care shall own ? Tis youth , ' tis age , the cottage , and the throne : Nor 45 Nor can the prifon ...
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... wrongs , and mine alone ! Yet parents pitylefs , nor peers unkind , Nor titles loft , nor woes myfterious join'd , 5 10 15 Strip me of hope - by heaven thus lowly laid , To find Pharaoh's daughter in the shade . You You cannot hear ...
... wrongs , and mine alone ! Yet parents pitylefs , nor peers unkind , Nor titles loft , nor woes myfterious join'd , 5 10 15 Strip me of hope - by heaven thus lowly laid , To find Pharaoh's daughter in the shade . You You cannot hear ...
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Página 68 - Griev'd I forgive, and am grown cool too late; Young and unthoughtful then, who knows one day What ripening virtues might have made their way!
Página 68 - He might have fav'd fome worth, now doom'd to fall ; And I, perchance, in him, have murder'd all. O fate of late Repentance ! always vain : Thy remedies but lull undying pain. Where...
Página 82 - Two Fathers join'd to rob my Claim of one ! My Mother too thought fit to have no Son ! The Senate next...
Página 29 - Can its foot sharpen, like the vulture's claw? Can the fond goat, or tender fleecy dam, Howl, like the wolf, to tear the kid, or lamb? Yes, there are mothers...
Página 66 - tis to you My thanks for such distinguish'd claims are due ; You, unenslav'd to Nature's narrow laws, Warm championess for freedom's sacred cause, From all the dry devoirs of blood and line, . From ties maternal, moral and divine, Discharg'd my grasping soul ; push'd me from shore, And launch'd me into life without an oar.
Página 70 - Her fmile more cheerful than a vernal morn, All life ! all bloom ! of Youth and Fancy born. Touch'd into joy, what hearts to her fubmit ! She looks her Sire, and fpeaks her Mother's wit. O'er the gay world the fweet infpirer reigns . Spleen flies, and Elegance her pomp fuftains.
Página 39 - Whence, beam'd from sapphires, living azure plays; The liquid floor, in-wrought with pearls divine, Where all his labours in...
Página 172 - Boast petty courts, whence rules new rigour draw, Unknown to Nature's and to statute-law ; Quirks that explain all saving rights away, To give th' attorney and the catchpoll prey.
Página 6 - Induftry is all with Beauty crown'd ! He, He alone, explores the Mine for Gain, Hues the hard Rock, or harrows up the Plain ; He forms the Sword to...
Página 56 - He deem'd it godlike to have power to blefs : Thus, when unguarded, treafon ftain'd him o'er; And virtue and content were then no more. But when to death by rigorous...