The Works of the English Poets, Volumen20Samuel Johnson J. Nichols, 1779 |
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Samuel Johnson. Now let your Mufe rife with expanded wings , To fing the fate of empires and of kings ; Great William's victories the ' ll next rehearse , And raife a trophy of immortal verse : Thus to your art proportion the defign ...
Samuel Johnson. Now let your Mufe rife with expanded wings , To fing the fate of empires and of kings ; Great William's victories the ' ll next rehearse , And raife a trophy of immortal verse : Thus to your art proportion the defign ...
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... fate , * That great ones may enjoy the world in state ; There ftands at dome , majeftic to the fight , And sumptuous arches bear its oval height ; * Old Bailey . + College of Physicians . C 2 5 10 A golden A golden globe , plac'd high ...
... fate , * That great ones may enjoy the world in state ; There ftands at dome , majeftic to the fight , And sumptuous arches bear its oval height ; * Old Bailey . + College of Physicians . C 2 5 10 A golden A golden globe , plac'd high ...
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... fate foretell ; Or where stale maids , or meagre eunuchs , dwell ; Tell the bleak fury what new projects reign , Among the homicides of Warwick - lane ; And what th ' event , unless fhe ftrait inclines To blaft their hopes , and baffle ...
... fate foretell ; Or where stale maids , or meagre eunuchs , dwell ; Tell the bleak fury what new projects reign , Among the homicides of Warwick - lane ; And what th ' event , unless fhe ftrait inclines To blaft their hopes , and baffle ...
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... fate brooding in her look ; A bald and bloated toad - ftool rais'd her head ; The plumes of boding ravens were her bed : From her chapp'd noftrils fcalding torrents fall , And her funk eyes boil o'er in floods of gall . Volcanos labour ...
... fate brooding in her look ; A bald and bloated toad - ftool rais'd her head ; The plumes of boding ravens were her bed : From her chapp'd noftrils fcalding torrents fall , And her funk eyes boil o'er in floods of gall . Volcanos labour ...
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... fates deny ? Within this ifle for ever must I find Difafters to diftract my reftlefs mind ? Good Tenifon's celeftial piety At laft has rais'd him to the facred fee . Somers does fickening equity restore , And helpless orphans are ...
... fates deny ? Within this ifle for ever must I find Difafters to diftract my reftlefs mind ? Good Tenifon's celeftial piety At laft has rais'd him to the facred fee . Somers does fickening equity restore , And helpless orphans are ...
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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.