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 68
... these pains can undergo . She tends me , like an humble flave ; And , when indecently I rave , When out my brutish palions break , With gall in every word I speak , She , with foft fpeech , my anguish cheers Or melts my paffions down ...
... these pains can undergo . She tends me , like an humble flave ; And , when indecently I rave , When out my brutish palions break , With gall in every word I speak , She , with foft fpeech , my anguish cheers Or melts my paffions down ...
Pàgina 88
... these praises are your due . You , like fome acute philofopher , Every fault have drawn a glofs over : Placing in the strongest light All your virtues to my fight . * Though you lead a blameless life , Are an humble prudent wife ...
... these praises are your due . You , like fome acute philofopher , Every fault have drawn a glofs over : Placing in the strongest light All your virtues to my fight . * Though you lead a blameless life , Are an humble prudent wife ...
Pàgina 93
... these two houses met , and had the fol- lowing Dialogue . Here won't the Dean , when he's to feek , To fpunge a breakfast once a week ; To cry the bread was stale , and mutter Complaints against the royal butter . But now I fear it will ...
... these two houses met , and had the fol- lowing Dialogue . Here won't the Dean , when he's to feek , To fpunge a breakfast once a week ; To cry the bread was stale , and mutter Complaints against the royal butter . But now I fear it will ...
Pàgina 99
... these ftones be twixt : My fpud these nettles from the ftones can part ; No knife to keen to weed thee from my heart . " SHEELAH . My love for gentle Dermot fafter grows , Than yon tall dock that rises to thy nose . Cut down the dock ...
... these ftones be twixt : My fpud these nettles from the ftones can part ; No knife to keen to weed thee from my heart . " SHEELAH . My love for gentle Dermot fafter grows , Than yon tall dock that rises to thy nose . Cut down the dock ...
Pàgina 122
... these I am recover'd quite , At least in what regards the knight . Preserve his health , his store increase ; May nothing interrupt his peace ! But now let all his tenants round First milk his cows , and after , pound : Let every ...
... these I am recover'd quite , At least in what regards the knight . Preserve his health , his store increase ; May nothing interrupt his peace ! But now let all his tenants round First milk his cows , and after , pound : Let every ...
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.