The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volumen401807 |
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... critic's jest , all end in thee ; All rest in peace at last , and sleep eternally . VI . EARL OF DORSET . Artemisia . THOUGH Artemisia talks , by fits , Of counsels , classics , fathers , wits ; Reads Malbranche , Boyle , and Locke ...
... critic's jest , all end in thee ; All rest in peace at last , and sleep eternally . VI . EARL OF DORSET . Artemisia . THOUGH Artemisia talks , by fits , Of counsels , classics , fathers , wits ; Reads Malbranche , Boyle , and Locke ...
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... critic come abroad ; If wrong , I smil'd ; if right , I kiss'd the rod . Pains , reading , study , are their just ... critics , some regard may claim , Preserv'd in Milton's , or in Shakespeare's name . Pretty in amber to observe the ...
... critic come abroad ; If wrong , I smil'd ; if right , I kiss'd the rod . Pains , reading , study , are their just ... critics , some regard may claim , Preserv'd in Milton's , or in Shakespeare's name . Pretty in amber to observe the ...
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... , 340 But stoop'd to truth , and moraliz'd his song ; That not for fame , but virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , 345 The damning critic , half - approving wit , 140 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES .
... , 340 But stoop'd to truth , and moraliz'd his song ; That not for fame , but virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , 345 The damning critic , half - approving wit , 140 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES .
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John Bell. 345 The damning critic , half - approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The distant threats of vengeance on his ...
John Bell. 345 The damning critic , half - approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The distant threats of vengeance on his ...
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... boy but hears the sayings of old Ben ? 80 ' In all debates where critics bear a part , 4 Not one but nods , and talks of Jonson's art , • Of Shakespear's nature , and of Cowley's wit ; a 2 Epist . I. 187 IMITATIONS OF HORACE .
... boy but hears the sayings of old Ben ? 80 ' In all debates where critics bear a part , 4 Not one but nods , and talks of Jonson's art , • Of Shakespear's nature , and of Cowley's wit ; a 2 Epist . I. 187 IMITATIONS OF HORACE .
Términos y frases comunes
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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,.