The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen46Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... spirits wing the air ( Once men , who made like her mankind their care ) : Inamour'd round her prefs th ' infpiring throng , And fwell to ecítacy her folemn fong . 70 Thus in the dame each nobler grace we find , Fair Wortley's angel ...
... spirits wing the air ( Once men , who made like her mankind their care ) : Inamour'd round her prefs th ' infpiring throng , And fwell to ecítacy her folemn fong . 70 Thus in the dame each nobler grace we find , Fair Wortley's angel ...
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... light , When blended , dazzling in promifcuous white . Oft through these bows departed spirits range , New to the kies , admiring at their change ; F 2 375 Each N Each mind a void , as when first born to THE WANDERER , CANTO V. 67.
... light , When blended , dazzling in promifcuous white . Oft through these bows departed spirits range , New to the kies , admiring at their change ; F 2 375 Each N Each mind a void , as when first born to THE WANDERER , CANTO V. 67.
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... spirit to rebel ? And why not fortitude to fuffer well ? Were his fuccefs , how terrible the blow ! And it recoils on him eternal woe . 485 490 Heaven this affliction then for mercy meant , That a good end might close a life mifpent ...
... spirit to rebel ? And why not fortitude to fuffer well ? Were his fuccefs , how terrible the blow ! And it recoils on him eternal woe . 485 490 Heaven this affliction then for mercy meant , That a good end might close a life mifpent ...
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... spirit ! rather fierce , than great . Darkling he glides along the dreary coaft , A fullen , wandering , felf - tormenting ghoft . Where veiny marble dignifies the ground , With emblem fair in fculpture rifing round , Juft where a ...
... spirit ! rather fierce , than great . Darkling he glides along the dreary coaft , A fullen , wandering , felf - tormenting ghoft . Where veiny marble dignifies the ground , With emblem fair in fculpture rifing round , Juft where a ...
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... spirits lent no fire , ' I had been born your dull , domestic heir , Load of your life , and motive of your care ; Perhaps been poorly rich , and meanly great , The flave of pomp , a cypher in the state ; Lordly neglectful of a worth ...
... spirits lent no fire , ' I had been born your dull , domestic heir , Load of your life , and motive of your care ; Perhaps been poorly rich , and meanly great , The flave of pomp , a cypher in the state ; Lordly neglectful of a worth ...
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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...