The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen23Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... whilft frying gums Caft round a fragrant mift of spicy fumes . Thus kindly tempt the famish'd swarm to eat , And gently reconcile them to their meat . Mix juice of galls , and wine , that grow in time Condens'd by fire , and thicken to ...
... whilft frying gums Caft round a fragrant mift of spicy fumes . Thus kindly tempt the famish'd swarm to eat , And gently reconcile them to their meat . Mix juice of galls , and wine , that grow in time Condens'd by fire , and thicken to ...
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... dwell on every tongue ; Whilft all , with voice and ftrings prepar'd , Keep up the loud harmonious fong . And imitate the bleft above , In joy , and harmony , and love . D ΑΝ AN ACCOUNT O. F THE GREATEST ENGLISH POETS . TO A 33- SONG .
... dwell on every tongue ; Whilft all , with voice and ftrings prepar'd , Keep up the loud harmonious fong . And imitate the bleft above , In joy , and harmony , and love . D ΑΝ AN ACCOUNT O. F THE GREATEST ENGLISH POETS . TO A 33- SONG .
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... Whilft jointly all promote the common blaze . Pardon , great Poet , that I dare to name Th ' unnumber'd beauties of thy verie with blame ;, Thy fault is only wit in its excefs : But wit like thine in any fhape will please . What Mufe ...
... Whilft jointly all promote the common blaze . Pardon , great Poet , that I dare to name Th ' unnumber'd beauties of thy verie with blame ;, Thy fault is only wit in its excefs : But wit like thine in any fhape will please . What Mufe ...
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... Whilft every verfe , array'd in majesty , Bold and fublime , my whole attention draws , And feems above the critics nicer laws .. How are you ftruck with terror and delight , When angel with arch - angel copes in fight ! When great ...
... Whilft every verfe , array'd in majesty , Bold and fublime , my whole attention draws , And feems above the critics nicer laws .. How are you ftruck with terror and delight , When angel with arch - angel copes in fight ! When great ...
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... Whilft jointly all promote the common blaze . Pardon , great Poet , that I dare to name Th ' unnumber'd beauties of thy verie with blame ;; Thy fault is only wit in its excefs : But wit like thine in any fhape will please . What Mufe ...
... Whilft jointly all promote the common blaze . Pardon , great Poet , that I dare to name Th ' unnumber'd beauties of thy verie with blame ;; Thy fault is only wit in its excefs : But wit like thine in any fhape will please . What Mufe ...
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Página 211 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 215 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Página 295 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 295 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Página 41 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Página 211 - To all my weak complaints and cries, Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learn'd To form themselves in pray'r. Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd From whom those comforts flow'd. When, in the slipp'ry paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran, Thine arm, unseen, convey'd me safe, And led me up to man.
Página 149 - And each by turns his aking heart assails. As he thus ponders, he behind him spies His opening hounds, and now he hears their cries: A generous pack, or to maintain the chase, Or snuff the vapour from the scented grass.
Página 271 - Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame Hangs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. — Thou must not go, my soul still hovers o'er thee, And can't get loose.
Página 277 - Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power deliver'd down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood) O let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children.
Página 211 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.