The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volumen401807 |
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... A gownman , learn'd ; a bishop , what you will ; Wise , if a minister ; but if a king , More wise , more learn'd , more just , more ev'ry thing . 140 Court - virtues bear , like gems , the highest 14 Epist . I. Part II , MORAL ESSAYS .
... A gownman , learn'd ; a bishop , what you will ; Wise , if a minister ; but if a king , More wise , more learn'd , more just , more ev'ry thing . 140 Court - virtues bear , like gems , the highest 14 Epist . I. Part II , MORAL ESSAYS .
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... things in an hour . Ask men's opinion ; Scoto now shall tell How trade increases , and the world goes well : Strike off his pension by the setting sun , And Britain , if not Europe , is undone . That gay Freethinker , a fine talker once ...
... things in an hour . Ask men's opinion ; Scoto now shall tell How trade increases , and the world goes well : Strike off his pension by the setting sun , And Britain , if not Europe , is undone . That gay Freethinker , a fine talker once ...
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... the scaffold for the pile . In this one passion man can strength enjoy , As fits give vigor , just when they destroy . VOL . III . B 220 Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand Epist . I. Part . III . 17 MORAL ESSAYS .
... the scaffold for the pile . In this one passion man can strength enjoy , As fits give vigor , just when they destroy . VOL . III . B 220 Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand Epist . I. Part . III . 17 MORAL ESSAYS .
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John Bell. Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand , 230 Yet tames not this ; it sticks to our last sand . 225 Consistent in our follies and our sins , Here honest Nature ends as she begins . Old politicians chew on wisdom past ...
John Bell. Time , that on all things lays his lenient hand , 230 Yet tames not this ; it sticks to our last sand . 225 Consistent in our follies and our sins , Here honest Nature ends as she begins . Old politicians chew on wisdom past ...
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... things to hit ; For true no - meaning puzzles more than wit . But what are these to great Atossa's mind ? 115 Scarce once herself , by turns all womankind ! Who with herself , or others , from her birth Finds all her life one warfare ...
... things to hit ; For true no - meaning puzzles more than wit . But what are these to great Atossa's mind ? 115 Scarce once herself , by turns all womankind ! Who with herself , or others , from her birth Finds all her life one warfare ...
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
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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,.