The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the AuthorB. Johnson, J. Johnson and R. Johnson, 1805 - 132 oldal |
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57. oldal
... grace , But lost in thoughtless ease and empty show , Behold the warrior dwindled to a beau ; Sense , freedom , piety , refin'd away , Of France the mimic , and of Spain the prey . All that at home no more can beg or steal , Or like a ...
... grace , But lost in thoughtless ease and empty show , Behold the warrior dwindled to a beau ; Sense , freedom , piety , refin'd away , Of France the mimic , and of Spain the prey . All that at home no more can beg or steal , Or like a ...
64. oldal
... grace of art , With fatal heat impetuous courage glows , With fatal sweetness elocution flows , Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath , And restless fire precipitates on death . But scarce observed , the knowing and the bold ...
... grace of art , With fatal heat impetuous courage glows , With fatal sweetness elocution flows , Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath , And restless fire precipitates on death . But scarce observed , the knowing and the bold ...
96. oldal
... grace his tomb . TO LADY FIREBRACE . AT BURY ASSIZES . At length must Suffolk beauties shine in vain , So long renown'd in Bn's deathless strain ? Thy charms at least , fair Firebrace , might inspire Some zealous bard to wake the ...
... grace his tomb . TO LADY FIREBRACE . AT BURY ASSIZES . At length must Suffolk beauties shine in vain , So long renown'd in Bn's deathless strain ? Thy charms at least , fair Firebrace , might inspire Some zealous bard to wake the ...
105. oldal
... Grace The mazy dance together trace . The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man . Rough Winter's blasts to Spring give way , Spring yields to Summer's sovʼreign ray ; Then Summer sinks in Autumn's reign , And Winter ...
... Grace The mazy dance together trace . The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man . Rough Winter's blasts to Spring give way , Spring yields to Summer's sovʼreign ray ; Then Summer sinks in Autumn's reign , And Winter ...
106. oldal
... grace , And on its basis would have been enroll'd , " This is Minerva , cast in virtue's mould . " Scatt'ring , as thy pinions play , Liquid fragrance all the way ; Is it business ? is it love ? Tell me , tell me , gentle dove . Soft ...
... grace , And on its basis would have been enroll'd , " This is Minerva , cast in virtue's mould . " Scatt'ring , as thy pinions play , Liquid fragrance all the way ; Is it business ? is it love ? Tell me , tell me , gentle dove . Soft ...
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ANTISTROPHE bard beauty Behold bless bosom breast breathe charms Circassia Collins death delight e'en ECLOGUE English language ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear fire fix'd flowers foes Garrick genius Gentleman's Magazine gold golden reign grace grief grove happy hear heart heaven honour hope hour Johnson Juvenal kings language light literary live Lord Lord Chesterfield lov'd lover lyre maid maze of fate merit Metastasio mind mirth moral mournful Murphy muse myrtle nature nature's night numbers Nymph o'er passions peaceful Pity plain pleasure poem poet poetical pow'r praise pride rage Rambler Rasselas reign Rio verde rise Samuel Johnson SATIRE OF JUVENAL scarce scenes scorn shade shews shine sighs sing Sir John Hawkins skies smile soft sooth soul spreads Spring Stella sweet thee thine thou thought Thrale toil truth vale verse virtue virtue's voice wealth wild wise writings youth
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22. oldal - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
21. oldal - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
67. oldal - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still, through all the song : And, where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
19. oldal - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring ' Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
69. oldal - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
58. oldal - With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dogdays, in December sweat. How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly Virtue hope to fix a friend...
58. oldal - If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear. Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
80. oldal - Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
99. oldal - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
68. oldal - Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For why did Wolsey near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise th