A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Montague. HalifaxJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1793 |
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xi. oldal
... light of fancy , and the exactest nicety of art , and is juftly esteemed one of the most perfect in any language . The character of his Prologues , Epilogues , Songs , and fhorter Poems , may be comprised in Con- greve's remark , that ...
... light of fancy , and the exactest nicety of art , and is juftly esteemed one of the most perfect in any language . The character of his Prologues , Epilogues , Songs , and fhorter Poems , may be comprised in Con- greve's remark , that ...
3. oldal
... light Monfieur the grave Don out- weigh'd ; His fortune tu.n'd the fcale where'er ' twas caft ; Though Indian mines were in the other laid . XXIV . When abfent , yet we conquer'd in his right : For though fome meaner artist's kill were ...
... light Monfieur the grave Don out- weigh'd ; His fortune tu.n'd the fcale where'er ' twas caft ; Though Indian mines were in the other laid . XXIV . When abfent , yet we conquer'd in his right : For though fome meaner artist's kill were ...
18. oldal
... light on you , it is but reason I fhould do you that juftice to the readers , to let them know , that , if there be any thing tolerable in this poem , they owe the argument to your choice , the writing to your encouragement , the ...
... light on you , it is but reason I fhould do you that juftice to the readers , to let them know , that , if there be any thing tolerable in this poem , they owe the argument to your choice , the writing to your encouragement , the ...
20. oldal
... lights above , For tapers made two glaring comets rife . XVII . Whether they unctuous exhalations are , Fir'd by the ... light did bring . XIX . Victorious York did firft with fam'd fuccefs , To his known valour make the Dutch give place ...
... lights above , For tapers made two glaring comets rife . XVII . Whether they unctuous exhalations are , Fir'd by the ... light did bring . XIX . Victorious York did firft with fam'd fuccefs , To his known valour make the Dutch give place ...
24. oldal
... light , And fhun each other's fhadows as they grow . CXXVII . The warlike prince had sever'd from the reft Two giant fhips , the pride of all the main ; Which with his one fo vigorously he prefs'd , And flew fo home they could not rise ...
... light , And fhun each other's fhadows as they grow . CXXVII . The warlike prince had sever'd from the reft Two giant fhips , the pride of all the main ; Which with his one fo vigorously he prefs'd , And flew fo home they could not rise ...
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73. oldal - Babel, which if it were possible, as it is not, to reach heaven, would come to nothing by the confusion of the workmen. For every man is building a several...
109. oldal - Not for his fellows' ruin, but their aid Created kind, beneficent, and free, The noble image of the Deity. One portion of informing fire was...
45. oldal - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Bless'd madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy!
102. oldal - Chase from our minds th' infernal foe, And peace, the fruit of love, bestow ; And, lest our feet should step astray, Protect and guide us in the way. Make us eternal truths receive, And practise all that we believe : Give us thyself, that we may see The Father, and the Son by thee.
49. oldal - ... content to look on grace, Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye To tempt the terror of her front, and die. By their own arts 'tis righteously decreed...
181. oldal - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
383. oldal - ... that verse commonly which they call golden, or two substantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep the peace.
415. oldal - Then old Age, and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him understand, After a search so painful, and so long, That all his Life he has been in the wrong.
42. oldal - Some had in courts been great, and thrown from thence , Like fiends, were harden'd in impenitence...
54. oldal - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.