The Works of the English Poets, Volumen33W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 360 páginas |
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... live , I will freely trust it to my Life to confute them ) may I find a friend as careful of my honest fame as I have been of His ! Together with his Works , he hath bequeathed me his Dunces . " A wit's a feather , and a chief's a rod ...
... live , I will freely trust it to my Life to confute them ) may I find a friend as careful of my honest fame as I have been of His ! Together with his Works , he hath bequeathed me his Dunces . " A wit's a feather , and a chief's a rod ...
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... Live , and enjoy their spite ! nor mourn that fate , Which would , if Virgil liv'd , on Virgil wait ; Whose Muse did once , like thine , in plains delight , Thine fhall , like his , foon take a higher flight ; So larks , which first ...
... Live , and enjoy their spite ! nor mourn that fate , Which would , if Virgil liv'd , on Virgil wait ; Whose Muse did once , like thine , in plains delight , Thine fhall , like his , foon take a higher flight ; So larks , which first ...
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... lives ; Where bolder rage informs each breathing line ; When the ftretch'd cloth a rougher ftroke receives , 85 When Art like lavish Nature's self supplies , Grace to the limbs , and spirit to the Eyes ; When ev'n the paffions of the ...
... lives ; Where bolder rage informs each breathing line ; When the ftretch'd cloth a rougher ftroke receives , 85 When Art like lavish Nature's self supplies , Grace to the limbs , and spirit to the Eyes ; When ev'n the paffions of the ...
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... of an art , to which their talent was most powerfully bent ; and it was the bufinefs of their lives to cor rect and finish their works for Pofterity . If we can pretend B 4 pretend to have used the fame industry , let us PREFACE .
... of an art , to which their talent was most powerfully bent ; and it was the bufinefs of their lives to cor rect and finish their works for Pofterity . If we can pretend B 4 pretend to have used the fame industry , let us PREFACE .
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... , both by my friends and enemies : But the true reason these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confi- deration how fhort a time they and I have to live : One One may be afhamed to confume half one's days in PREFACE .
... , both by my friends and enemies : But the true reason these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the confi- deration how fhort a time they and I have to live : One One may be afhamed to confume half one's days in PREFACE .
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