The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 |
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Pàgina xiv
... should be willing to have • laid to his charge . I fhall not object to fome mistakes he has made concerning the compofition , or , as he calls it , the cadence of our verfe ; nor to others , concerning the antiquity of fome kinds of it ...
... should be willing to have • laid to his charge . I fhall not object to fome mistakes he has made concerning the compofition , or , as he calls it , the cadence of our verfe ; nor to others , concerning the antiquity of fome kinds of it ...
Pàgina 5
... Should they ftand all love's battery ! Perfindae's eyes great mifchief do , So do we know the cannon too ; But men are fafe at distance ftill : Where they reach not they cannot kill . Love is a fit , and foon is past , Ill diet only ...
... Should they ftand all love's battery ! Perfindae's eyes great mifchief do , So do we know the cannon too ; But men are fafe at distance ftill : Where they reach not they cannot kill . Love is a fit , and foon is past , Ill diet only ...
Pàgina 11
... should make the action priz'd . Johnson . Men find that action is another thing , Than they do in difcourfing papers read : The world's affairs require in managing More arts than those wherein your clerks proceed : Whilft tim'rous ...
... should make the action priz'd . Johnson . Men find that action is another thing , Than they do in difcourfing papers read : The world's affairs require in managing More arts than those wherein your clerks proceed : Whilft tim'rous ...
Pàgina 20
... should be rul'd , by all his council's will , And ufe their judgments in my dealings ftill . But why do I accufe my father's heft , What mean I here th'unfaulty for to blame ♪ All he commanded ev'n was for the best , Though in effect ...
... should be rul'd , by all his council's will , And ufe their judgments in my dealings ftill . But why do I accufe my father's heft , What mean I here th'unfaulty for to blame ♪ All he commanded ev'n was for the best , Though in effect ...
Pàgina 21
... should be loath to speak in great affairs , Where words are damn'd , or ballanc'd by th'event : For , if things fail , the fault is ftill thought theirs , Who gave advice , though of a good intent . E. of Sterline's Darius . Council's ...
... should be loath to speak in great affairs , Where words are damn'd , or ballanc'd by th'event : For , if things fail , the fault is ftill thought theirs , Who gave advice , though of a good intent . E. of Sterline's Darius . Council's ...
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