The Life of Thomas Dermody: Interspersed with Pieces of Original Poetry: Many Exhibiting Unexampled Prematurity of Genuine Poetical Talent; : and Containing a Series of Correspondence with Several Eminent Characters, 1. kötetW. Miller, 1806 |
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153. oldal - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
54. oldal - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
216. oldal - A soldier and a sailor, A tinker and a tailor, Had once a doubtful strife, sir, To make a maid a wife, sir, Whose name was buxom Joan. For now the time was ended, When she no more intended To lick her lips at men, sir, And gnaw the sheets in vain, sir, And lie o
44. oldal - Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quern mihi, quem tibi Finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nee Babylonios Tentaris numeros. Ut melius quidquid erit pati, Seu plures hiemes seu tribuit Juppiter ultimam, Quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum. Sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi Spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
217. oldal - The sailor slily waiting, Thought if it came about, sir, That they should all fall out, sir, He then might play his part. And just e'en as he meant, sir, To loggerheads they went," sir, And then he let fly at her A shot 'twixt wind and water...
36. oldal - I'll pillow thy head ; In down will I coffin thy breast ; And when thy sad mistress is dead, Together in peace we will rest. Sweet bird, how ill-fated our strain ! We shall warble, alas ! ne'er again. ADVICE TO TWO ADOPTED SISTERS. DEAR girls, in youth and beauty's prime Despise not friendship's graver rhyme ; Friendship, that marks your early bloom Perfection's brightest tints assume.
67. oldal - Tuneful Alexis, on the Thames' fair side, The ladies' plaything, and the Muses' pride ; With merit popular, with wit polite, Easy though vain, and elegant though light ; Desiring, and deserving others...
199. oldal - But for that plaguy profligate, We early might enjoy and late The knowledge of thy teeming pate From board to bed: But now thou'rt 'neath a puny slate: Droll Johnny's dead. Full many a hard bout hast thou weather'd: By merry Bob severely tether'd; More sadly than if tarr'd and feather'd, Like bull-dog led: Now all my tools are fairly gather'd; Blythe Baynham's dead.
227. oldal - Virtue smil'd : Few was their number, large their cost, For he was Nature's orphan-child. The graceful drop of Pity spare, (To him the bright drop once belong'd) ; Well, well his...
236. oldal - I allow you considerable facility in rhyming : nature has bestowed upon you that particular branch of ability. But if your rhymes convey not great, noble, just, and striking sentiments ; or do not flow embellished by picturesque ideas, or adorned by elegance of style ; your reputation as a poet will never rise above mediocrity. Be not misled by the fanciful caprice of a short period : you would not have met that flattering share of applause in England, where criticism is more rigid in its scrutiny,...