A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Swift. Thompson. Watts. Hamilton. A. Philips. G. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. HarteJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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Pàgina 1
... grace ; Virgil and Epicurus will not do , Their courting a retreat like you , Unless I put in Cæfar's learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of fouls . Let not old Rome boast Fabius ' fate ; He fav'd his ...
... grace ; Virgil and Epicurus will not do , Their courting a retreat like you , Unless I put in Cæfar's learning too : Your happy frame at once controls This great triumvirate of fouls . Let not old Rome boast Fabius ' fate ; He fav'd his ...
Pàgina 12
... Grace were no more skill'd in The art of battering walls than building , We might expect to fee next year A mouse - trap man chief engineer ! BAUCIS AND PHILEMON . ON THE EVER - LAMENTED LOSS OF THE TWO YEW - TREES IN THE PARISH OF ...
... Grace were no more skill'd in The art of battering walls than building , We might expect to fee next year A mouse - trap man chief engineer ! BAUCIS AND PHILEMON . ON THE EVER - LAMENTED LOSS OF THE TWO YEW - TREES IN THE PARISH OF ...
Pàgina 18
... grace fwore by G - d , and her grace let a f --- t : My long old - fashion'd pocket was presently cramm'd And fooner than vote for a peace I'll be damn'd . But fome will cry Turn - coat , and rip up old ftories , How I always pretended ...
... grace fwore by G - d , and her grace let a f --- t : My long old - fashion'd pocket was presently cramm'd And fooner than vote for a peace I'll be damn'd . But fome will cry Turn - coat , and rip up old ftories , How I always pretended ...
Pàgina 34
... grace , which by your leave Sufan would not have done on Easter Eve , Had the not been inform'd over and over , " Twas for the ingenious Author of The Lover . Ceafe therefore to beguile thyfelf with hopes , Which is no more than making ...
... grace , which by your leave Sufan would not have done on Easter Eve , Had the not been inform'd over and over , " Twas for the ingenious Author of The Lover . Ceafe therefore to beguile thyfelf with hopes , Which is no more than making ...
Pàgina 56
... grace : Whilft every line of face does bring A line of grace to what they fing . But yet methinks , though with difgrace Both to the picture and the face , I fhould name them who do rehearse The ftory of the picture - farce ; The Squire ...
... grace : Whilft every line of face does bring A line of grace to what they fing . But yet methinks , though with difgrace Both to the picture and the face , I fhould name them who do rehearse The ftory of the picture - farce ; The Squire ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
ANTISTROPHE beauty behold beneath blefs bleft breaft breath charms Dean dear death defcending defire delight divine dreft earth ECLOGUE Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate fatire fave fcene fecret feems feen fenfe fhade fhall fhine fhore fhould fhow fide filk fing firft firſt fkies flain flame fleep fmile foft fome fong fons foon forrow foul fpirit fpread fpring ftand ftate ftill ftrain ftream fubject fuch funk fure fwain fweet fwell glory grace heart heaven himſelf honour juft king laft lefs loft Lord mind moſt mufe muft muſt ne'er never numbers nymph o'er paffion pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poet praife praiſe pride profe rage reafon reft reign rife rofe round ſcene ſhall ſkies ſky ſtate ſtill thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand toil verfe virtue Whig whofe wife youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 152 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Pàgina 227 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Pàgina 200 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Pàgina 308 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Pàgina 417 - Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast ; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost : My bosom glow'd ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Pàgina 532 - O thou, whose spirit most possest The sacred seat of Shakspeare's breast! By all that from thy prophet broke. In thy divine emotions spoke ; Hither again thy fury deal, Teach me but once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee ! ODE TO SIMPLICITY.
Pàgina 537 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Pàgina 150 - As Rochefoucault his Maxims drew From Nature, I believe them true ; They argue no corrupted mind In him ; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast, ' In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends, While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Pàgina 234 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Pàgina 10 - Then stepp'd aside to fetch them drink, Fill'da large jug up to the brink, And saw it fairly twice go round ; Yet (what is wonderful !) they found, 'Twas still replenish'd to the top, As if they ne'er had touch'da drop.