The Works of the English Poets, Volumen20Samuel Johnson J. Nichols, 1779 |
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... better pleased if they had met with more faults . Their grand objection is , that the Fury Disease is an improper machine to recite characters , and recommend the example of present writers : but though I had the authority of fome Greek ...
... better pleased if they had met with more faults . Their grand objection is , that the Fury Disease is an improper machine to recite characters , and recommend the example of present writers : but though I had the authority of fome Greek ...
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... the world his own may know . Thrice happy were thofe golden days of old , When dear as burgundy , ptifans were fold ; * Gilftorp , an apothecary . 160 When When patients chose to die with better will , Than 42 GARTH'S POEMS .
... the world his own may know . Thrice happy were thofe golden days of old , When dear as burgundy , ptifans were fold ; * Gilftorp , an apothecary . 160 When When patients chose to die with better will , Than 42 GARTH'S POEMS .
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Samuel Johnson. When patients chose to die with better will , Than breathe , and pay th ' apothecary's bill ; And , cheaper than for our atfistance call , Might go to Aix or Bourbon , fpring and fall . Then priests increas'd , and piety ...
Samuel Johnson. When patients chose to die with better will , Than breathe , and pay th ' apothecary's bill ; And , cheaper than for our atfistance call , Might go to Aix or Bourbon , fpring and fall . Then priests increas'd , and piety ...
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... better loft ; Didfains in factious parties to contend , And proves in absence most Britannia's friend . So the great Scipio of old , to shun That glorious envy which his arms had won , Far from his dear , ungrateful Rome retir'd ...
... better loft ; Didfains in factious parties to contend , And proves in absence most Britannia's friend . So the great Scipio of old , to shun That glorious envy which his arms had won , Far from his dear , ungrateful Rome retir'd ...
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... better parts by luftral waves refin'd , More pure , and nearer to æthereal mind , With gums of fragrant fcent the Goddefs ftrews , And on his features breathes ambrofial dews . Thus deify'd , new honours Rome decrees , Shrines ...
... better parts by luftral waves refin'd , More pure , and nearer to æthereal mind , With gums of fragrant fcent the Goddefs ftrews , And on his features breathes ambrofial dews . Thus deify'd , new honours Rome decrees , Shrines ...
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Página 203 - 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 110 - 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 5 - It is hard, that to think well of you, fhould be but juftice, and to tell you fo, mould be an offence : thus, rather than violate your modefty, I muft be wanting to your other virtues ; and, to gratify one good quality, do wrong to a thoufand. The world...
Página 410 - WHEN the young people ride the Skimmington, There is a general trembling in a town : Not only he for whom the person rides Suffers, but they sweep other doors besides ; And by that hieroglyphic does appear That the good woman is the master there.
Página 15 - Should not have leave to judge, as well as kill : Nay, let them write ; let them their forces join, And hope the motley piece may rival thine. Safely defpife their malice, and their toil, Which vulgar ears alone will reach, and will defile.
Página 406 - More out of choice, than that he loft his way, He let his company the Hare purfue, For he himfelf had other game in view. A Beggar by her trade ; yet not fo mean, But that her cheeks were frefh, and linen clean. J' Miftrefs," quoth he, " and what if we two fhou'd * Retire a little way into the wood...
Página 170 - 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 De Condlmentis & Offoniis Peterum, ••Of " Of the Sauces and Soups of the Ancients,
Página 44 - Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run : So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed, the more they still disjoin.
Página 10 - ... far real, though the poetical relation be fictitious. I hope no body will think the author too undecently reflecting through the whole, who being too liable to faults himfelf, ought to be lefs fevere upon the mifcarriages of others.
Página 11 - I think in my conscience a very able physician as well as a gentleman of extraordinary learning. If I am hard upon any one it is my reader ; but some worthy gentlemen, as remarkable for their humanity as their extraordinary parts, have taken, care to make him amends for it, by prefixing something of their own.