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... And fix , O Muse I the barrier of thy song 20 . At dipus - from his disasters trace
The long confusions of his guilty race : Nor yet attempt to stretch thy bolder wing ,
And mighty Cæsar ' s conqu ' ring Eagles sing ! How twice he tam ' d proud Ister ...
... And fix , O Muse I the barrier of thy song 20 . At dipus - from his disasters trace
The long confusions of his guilty race : Nor yet attempt to stretch thy bolder wing ,
And mighty Cæsar ' s conqu ' ring Eagles sing ! How twice he tam ' d proud Ister ...
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301 O race , confed ' rate into crimes , that prove Triumphant o ' er th ' eluded
rage of Jove ! This weary ' d arm can scarce the bolt sustain , And unregarded
thunder rolls in vain ; 305 TH ' o ' erlabor ' d Cyclop from his task retires , Th '
Æolian ...
301 O race , confed ' rate into crimes , that prove Triumphant o ' er th ' eluded
rage of Jove ! This weary ' d arm can scarce the bolt sustain , And unregarded
thunder rolls in vain ; 305 TH ' o ' erlabor ' d Cyclop from his task retires , Th '
Æolian ...
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Yet if , propitious to a wretch unknown , You seek to share in sorrows not your
own , Know then from Cadmus I derive my race , " Jocasta ' s son , and Thebes
my native place . ' 805 To whom the King , ( who felt his gen ' rous breast Touch '
d ...
Yet if , propitious to a wretch unknown , You seek to share in sorrows not your
own , Know then from Cadmus I derive my race , " Jocasta ' s son , and Thebes
my native place . ' 805 To whom the King , ( who felt his gen ' rous breast Touch '
d ...
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With innocence of mien Ch ' accus ' d stood forth , and thus address ' d the Queen
: Of all th ' enamel ' d race , whose silv ' ry wing 421 Waves to the tepid zephyrs of
the spring , Or swims along the fluid atmosphere , Once brightest shin ' d this ...
With innocence of mien Ch ' accus ' d stood forth , and thus address ' d the Queen
: Of all th ' enamel ' d race , whose silv ' ry wing 421 Waves to the tepid zephyrs of
the spring , Or swims along the fluid atmosphere , Once brightest shin ' d this ...
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... deep Free - masons , join the silent race , Worthy to fill Pythagoras ' s place :
Some botanists , or florists at the least , Or issue members of an annual feast .
Nor past the meanest unregarded , one 575 Rose a Gregorian , one a Gormogon
.
... deep Free - masons , join the silent race , Worthy to fill Pythagoras ' s place :
Some botanists , or florists at the least , Or issue members of an annual feast .
Nor past the meanest unregarded , one 575 Rose a Gregorian , one a Gormogon
.
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Página 134 - 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 127 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Página 134 - 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 133 - 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 138 - 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 128 - 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 38 - 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 127 - 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 131 - 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 172 - 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,.