The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fure , thy plan was well defign'd , To cure this madness of the mind ; First , beyond time our thoughts to raise ; Then lash our love of tranfient praise . In both , we own thy doctrine juft ; And fame's a breath , and men are duft ...
... fure , thy plan was well defign'd , To cure this madness of the mind ; First , beyond time our thoughts to raise ; Then lash our love of tranfient praise . In both , we own thy doctrine juft ; And fame's a breath , and men are duft ...
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... fure , a fix'd , inexorable doom ? Ambition fwell , and , thy proud fails to show , Take all the winds that Vanity can blow ; Wealth on a golden mountain blazing stand , And reach an India forth in either hand ; Spread all thy purple ...
... fure , a fix'd , inexorable doom ? Ambition fwell , and , thy proud fails to show , Take all the winds that Vanity can blow ; Wealth on a golden mountain blazing stand , And reach an India forth in either hand ; Spread all thy purple ...
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... fure a father's pangs will have their force ! " Shall his good age , fo near its journey's end , " Through cruel torment to the grave defcend ? His fhallow blood all iffue at a wound , " Wash a flave's feet , and fmoak upon the ground ...
... fure a father's pangs will have their force ! " Shall his good age , fo near its journey's end , " Through cruel torment to the grave defcend ? His fhallow blood all iffue at a wound , " Wash a flave's feet , and fmoak upon the ground ...
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... fure of being fuccefsful , but with regard to one indivi- dual in it . It is this conduct that justly makes a Wit a term of reproach . Which puts me mind of Plato's fable of the birth of Love ; one of the prettieft fables of all ...
... fure of being fuccefsful , but with regard to one indivi- dual in it . It is this conduct that justly makes a Wit a term of reproach . Which puts me mind of Plato's fable of the birth of Love ; one of the prettieft fables of all ...
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... fure . 60 O'er globes , and fceptres , now on thrones it fwells ; 55 Now , trims the midnight lamp in college cells : ' Tis Tory , Whig ; it plots , prays , preaches , pleads , Harangues in Senates , fqueaks in Masquerades . Here , to ...
... fure . 60 O'er globes , and fceptres , now on thrones it fwells ; 55 Now , trims the midnight lamp in college cells : ' Tis Tory , Whig ; it plots , prays , preaches , pleads , Harangues in Senates , fqueaks in Masquerades . Here , to ...
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Página 79 - It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life ; but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.
Página 112 - But after seven years' dance, from place to place The 'Dane is more familiar with his grace. Who'd be a crutch to prop a rotten peer ; Or living pendant dangling at his ear, For ever whisp'ring secrets, which were blown For months before, by trumpets, thro...
Página 10 - Impetuous winds the scatter'd forests rend ; Eternal mountains, like their cedars, bend ; The valleys yawn, the troubled ocean roar, And break the bondage of his wonted shore ; A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread ; Darkness the circle of the sun invade ; From inmost heaven incessant thunders roll, And the strong echo bound from pole to pole.
Página 131 - LIBERIA'S eye As riot, impudence, and perfidy ; The youth of fire, that has drunk deep, and play'd...
Página 97 - Though prone to like, yet cautious to commend, You read with all the malice of a friend; Nor favour my attempts that way alone, But more to raise my verse, conceal your own. An ill-tim'd modesty!
Página 81 - Let high birth triumph ! What can be more great ? Nothing — but merit in a low estate.
Página 82 - The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. In Britain, what is many a lordly seat, But a discharge in full for an estate...
Página 96 - I'll conjure thus some profit out of thee. O THOU myself! abroad our counsels roam, And, like ill husbands, take no care at home : Thou too art wounded with the common dart, And Love of Fame lies throbbing at thy heart; And what wise means to gain it hast thou chose?
Página 79 - Some go to church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went : One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the gods, but would have mortals hear ; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their religion has been one.
Página 119 - But if, by chance, an ill-adapted word Drops from the lip of her unwary lord, Her darling china, in a whirlwind sent, Just intimates the lady's discontent.