The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volumen401807 |
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... Nature's , and Britannia's praise ! All their bright honors rush into his lays ! And all that glorious warmth his lays reveal , Which only poets , kings , and patriots feel ! Tho ' gay as mirth , as curious thought sedate , As elegance ...
... Nature's , and Britannia's praise ! All their bright honors rush into his lays ! And all that glorious warmth his lays reveal , Which only poets , kings , and patriots feel ! Tho ' gay as mirth , as curious thought sedate , As elegance ...
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... together with those which are unuseful , and therefore unattainable . 3. Of the nature , ends , use , and application , of the dif- POPE , VOL . 111 , A ferent capacities of men . 4. Of the use of MORAL ESSAYS , ADVERTISEMENT.
... together with those which are unuseful , and therefore unattainable . 3. Of the nature , ends , use , and application , of the dif- POPE , VOL . 111 , A ferent capacities of men . 4. Of the use of MORAL ESSAYS , ADVERTISEMENT.
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... Nature itself , and from policy , v . 120. Characters given according to the rank of men in the world , v . 135 ; and some reason for it , v . 140. Education alters the nature , or at least character , of many , v . 149. Actions ...
... Nature itself , and from policy , v . 120. Characters given according to the rank of men in the world , v . 135 ; and some reason for it , v . 140. Education alters the nature , or at least character , of many , v . 149. Actions ...
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... Nature's , Custom's , Reason's , Passion's , strife , And all Opinion's colors cast on life . Our depths who fathoms , or our shallows finds , Quick whirls , and shifting eddies , of our minds ? On human actions reason though you can ...
... Nature's , Custom's , Reason's , Passion's , strife , And all Opinion's colors cast on life . Our depths who fathoms , or our shallows finds , Quick whirls , and shifting eddies , of our minds ? On human actions reason though you can ...
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... Nature only are the same : 95 In man the judgment shoots at flying game : A bird of passage ! gone as soon as found , Now in the moon , perhaps now under ground . 98 PART II . In vain the sage , with retrospective eye , 99 Would from th ...
... Nature only are the same : 95 In man the judgment shoots at flying game : A bird of passage ! gone as soon as found , Now in the moon , perhaps now under ground . 98 PART II . In vain the sage , with retrospective eye , 99 Would from th ...
Términos y frases comunes
Author bard Bavius beauty Behold bless'd Boileau charms Cibber court Criticism dæmon dear Dennis divine Dryden dull Dulness Dunciad EPISTLE Eridanus Essay Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate flame folly fool Francis Atterbury genius gentle Gildon Goddess grace hath hear heart Heav'n hero Homer honor Horace Iliad IMITATIONS kings knave laws learned Leonard Welsted Letter LEWIS THEOBALD live Lord lov'd Matthew Concanen MIST'S JOURNAL moral Muse ne'er never numbers o'er octavo once Ovid person pleas'd Poem poet poet's poor Pope pow'r praise pride printed proud Queen rage REMARKS rhymes rise sacred saith Sappho satire shade shew shine sing SMIL soft soul Swift tell thee thine things thou thought Town truth Twas verse Virg Virgil virtue Whig wife words wretched writ write youth
Pasajes populares
Página 132 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Página 132 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Página 131 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Página 136 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Página 126 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 36 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
Página 125 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Página 129 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Página 170 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.