Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. ...T. Davies, 1774 |
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affured againſt alfo ANTIPAROS Appetites Averfion Beauty becauſe Befides Bolingbroke Caufe Cauſe Clodio confequently confiderable Courſe Cryſtal Defign Defire difcovered diſtinguiſhed Eachard eafily Expreffion faid fame fays feemed fenfible fent ferve fettled fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fometimes foon French Friends ftill fuch fuffered fufficient fuppofed fure greateſt himſelf Houfe Houſe human Ideas Impreffions Inftance Inftincts Intereft itſelf John Eachard juft juſt laft leaſt lefs loft Lord Lord Bolingbroke Love Mafter Manner Meaſures Mind moft moſt Mufic muft muſt myſelf Nature neceffary neral never Number o'er obferved Objects Occafion Paffage paffed Paffions Pain Parnell Perfon Philofophy pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Poet poffible Pope Power Praiſe prefent Pretender Purpoſe racters raiſe Reaſon Reft rife ſee ſeems Self-intereft Self-love Senfe Species ſtill Sublime Succefs Syftem thefe themſelves theſe Thing thofe Thomas Parnell thoſe tion Underſtanding uſeful Whigs whofe whoſe Words write Zoilus
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49. oldal - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
123. oldal - He is pleased with your placing him in the triumvirate between yourself and me ; though he says he doubts he shall fare like Lepidus, while one of us runs away with all the power like Augustus, and another with all the pleasure, like Anthony.
123. oldal - ... in England. As to the return of his health and vigour, were you here, you might inquire of his hay-makers; but as to his temperance I can answer that (for one whole day) we have had nothing for dinner but mutton-broth, beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl.
123. oldal - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two hay-cocks; but his -attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in the admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower...
248. oldal - twere endless to engage, And draw at length the rabble of the stage, Where one for twenty years has given alarms, And...
51. oldal - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
132. oldal - Here lies HENRY ST. JOHN, : In the Reign of Queen Anne Secretary of War, Secretary of State, and Viscount Bolingbroke: In the Days of King George I. and King George II. Something more and better.
46. oldal - ... upon the scenes and decorations ; unite the greatest efforts of poetry, painting, and music; and when you have collected your audience, just at the moment when their minds are erect with expectation, let it be reported that a state criminal of high rank is on the point of being executed in the adjoining square ; in a moment the emptiness of the theatre would demonstrate the comparative weakness of the imitative arts, and proclaim the triumph of the real sympathy.
52. oldal - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
194. oldal - ... a poet, but a plain commoner, who lives upon his own, and fears and flatters no man. I hope before I die to...