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Lo , some are vellum , and the rest as good , For all his Lordship knows , but they
are wood ! For Locke or Milton ' tis in vain to look ; These shelves admit not any
modern book . ' 140 And now the chapel ' s silver bell you hear , That summons ...
Lo , some are vellum , and the rest as good , For all his Lordship knows , but they
are wood ! For Locke or Milton ' tis in vain to look ; These shelves admit not any
modern book . ' 140 And now the chapel ' s silver bell you hear , That summons ...
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Sublime in regal state Adrastus shone , Stretch ' d on rich carpets on his iv ' ry
throne ; A lofty couch receives each princely guest ; 615 Around , at awful
distance , wait the rest . And now the king , his royal feast to grace , Acestis calls ,
the ...
Sublime in regal state Adrastus shone , Stretch ' d on rich carpets on his iv ' ry
throne ; A lofty couch receives each princely guest ; 615 Around , at awful
distance , wait the rest . And now the king , his royal feast to grace , Acestis calls ,
the ...
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56 To vice and folly to confine the jest Sets half the world , God knows , against
the rest , Did not the sneer of more impartial men At sense and virtue , balance all
agen . Judicious wits spread wide the ridicule , And charitably comfort knave and
...
56 To vice and folly to confine the jest Sets half the world , God knows , against
the rest , Did not the sneer of more impartial men At sense and virtue , balance all
agen . Judicious wits spread wide the ridicule , And charitably comfort knave and
...
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After the other persons are disposed in their proper places of rest , the Goddess
transporis the King to her ' l enple , and there lays him to slumber with his head
on her lap ; 2 position of marvellous virtue , which causes all ihe visions of wild ...
After the other persons are disposed in their proper places of rest , the Goddess
transporis the King to her ' l enple , and there lays him to slumber with his head
on her lap ; 2 position of marvellous virtue , which causes all ihe visions of wild ...
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On others ' int ' rest , her gay liv ' ry flings , Int ' rest , that waves on party - color ' d
wings : Turn ' d to the sun , she casts a thousand dyes , And , as she turns , the
colors fall , or rise . 510 Others the Syren Sisters warble round , And empty beads
...
On others ' int ' rest , her gay liv ' ry flings , Int ' rest , that waves on party - color ' d
wings : Turn ' d to the sun , she casts a thousand dyes , And , as she turns , the
colors fall , or rise . 510 Others the Syren Sisters warble round , And empty beads
...
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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,.