Hypocrisy: A Satire, in Three Books. Book the FirstT. Smith, 1812 - 296 oldal |
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9. oldal
... taste to French politeness yields . That ample wreath by Sydney borne away , Left his poor Poet not one sprig of bay ; Wielding , like Cæsar , both the pen and sword , His own gazettes his glories best record ; * Te Palinure petens tibi ...
... taste to French politeness yields . That ample wreath by Sydney borne away , Left his poor Poet not one sprig of bay ; Wielding , like Cæsar , both the pen and sword , His own gazettes his glories best record ; * Te Palinure petens tibi ...
14. oldal
... taste of modern times , Though Ladies weep in sentimental showers , Their tears may not revive thy fading flowers . Thy prize a tulip , honey * thy pursuit , Poor bee ! Thou didst for blossom lose the fruit . I cease on ashes scarcely ...
... taste of modern times , Though Ladies weep in sentimental showers , Their tears may not revive thy fading flowers . Thy prize a tulip , honey * thy pursuit , Poor bee ! Thou didst for blossom lose the fruit . I cease on ashes scarcely ...
18. oldal
... taste themselves , than others to prevent ; Like eunuchs , whom stern Solymans employ To watch o'er beauties they can ne'er enjoy . * The Virgin Queen condescended sometimes to a little flir- tation : Shakespeare was performing the part ...
... taste themselves , than others to prevent ; Like eunuchs , whom stern Solymans employ To watch o'er beauties they can ne'er enjoy . * The Virgin Queen condescended sometimes to a little flir- tation : Shakespeare was performing the part ...
22. oldal
... taste and feeling judge not , but by rule ; A pliant leaden rule , that every hour Can bend to party , prejudice , or power . They read the Bards , their Masters , but to start Teachers of those from whom they learnt their art . * Some ...
... taste and feeling judge not , but by rule ; A pliant leaden rule , that every hour Can bend to party , prejudice , or power . They read the Bards , their Masters , but to start Teachers of those from whom they learnt their art . * Some ...
23. oldal
... taste these Goths deface ; To build their own vile hovel in its place ; With savage joy the ruined pile survey , And hunt amid the marble , for the clay ; Thus Cossacks , when the Turk their fury fled , Destroyed each Mosque and Palace ...
... taste these Goths deface ; To build their own vile hovel in its place ; With savage joy the ruined pile survey , And hunt amid the marble , for the clay ; Thus Cossacks , when the Turk their fury fled , Destroyed each Mosque and Palace ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Hypocrisy. a Satire, in Three Books. Book the First C C 1780?-1832 Colton Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2016 |
Hypocrisy. a Satire, in Three Books. Book the First C. C. (Charles Caleb) Colton Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2012 |
Hypocrisy a Satire, in Three Books: Book the First (Classic Reprint) C. Colton Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2018 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Algernon Sidney antient appear Aristotle attempt Author Bard Battle of Trafalgar Bishop blind blood Book Booksellers Cæsar cause censure charms Cicero common Council of Trent court Critics dare death Demosthenes doomed Earth exclaim fame fate favour fear feel foes French genius give grace Hail hand hath head heard heart honour hope Hypocrisy Hypocrite Jaffa Juvenal King Knave late less liberty live Lord Lord Chatham Lord Danby Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo Menander merit Milton mind modern murder muse never o'er observed Paley Paradise Lost passage Petersburgh Pitt Poem Poet Poetasters Poetry Pope praise Pride Prisoner proud prove Quintilian readers rhime ruin Satire scorn Shakespeare smiles Socrates spirit style talents taste tears thee thine thing thou tion Tiverton translation truth Tyrants Virgil Voltaire write
Népszerű szakaszok
182. oldal - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing...
218. oldal - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
230. oldal - In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself.
182. oldal - Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing works of peace destroy ; Then swell with pride, and must be titled gods, Great Benefactors of Mankind, Deliverers, Worshipped with temple, priest, and sacrifice?
286. oldal - ... warmest patriots have in their turn been invested with the lawful and unlawful authority of the crown, and though other reliefs or improvements have been held forth to the people, yet that no one man in office has ever promoted or encouraged a bill for shortening the duration of parliaments, but that (whoever was minister) the opposition to this measure, ever since the septennial act passed, has been constant and uniform on the part of government. You cannot but conclude, without ihe possibility...
64. oldal - Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low: To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful; yet he...
205. oldal - Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
224. oldal - If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed.
175. oldal - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
242. oldal - I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.