A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison. Hammond. Savage. Hill. Tickell. Somervile. Broome. Pitt. BlairJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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... fhow the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which fhall exclude Pope , will not easily be made . Let us look round upon the prefent time , and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the ...
... fhow the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which fhall exclude Pope , will not easily be made . Let us look round upon the prefent time , and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the ...
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... fhow For ' tis but half a judge's tafk , to know . ' Tis not enough , taste , judgment , learning , join ; In all you fpeak , let truth and candour thine ; That not alone what to your fenfe is due All may allow , but feek your ...
... fhow For ' tis but half a judge's tafk , to know . ' Tis not enough , taste , judgment , learning , join ; In all you fpeak , let truth and candour thine ; That not alone what to your fenfe is due All may allow , but feek your ...
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... fhow'd his faults - but when would poets mend ? No place fo facred from fuch fops is barr'd , Nor is Paul's church more fafe than Paul's church- yard : Nay , fly to altars ; there they'll taik you dead ; For fools ruth in where angels ...
... fhow'd his faults - but when would poets mend ? No place fo facred from fuch fops is barr'd , Nor is Paul's church more fafe than Paul's church- yard : Nay , fly to altars ; there they'll taik you dead ; For fools ruth in where angels ...
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... fhow like leaders of the swarthy Moors . Spadillio first , unconquerable Lord ! Puts forth one manly leg , to fight reveal'd , The reft , his many - colour'd robe conceal'd . The rebel Knave , who dares his prince engage , Proves the ...
... fhow like leaders of the swarthy Moors . Spadillio first , unconquerable Lord ! Puts forth one manly leg , to fight reveal'd , The reft , his many - colour'd robe conceal'd . The rebel Knave , who dares his prince engage , Proves the ...
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... fhow The feats true lovers , when they lift , can do : Though watch'd and captive , yet in spite of all , They found the art of kifling through a wall . But now no longer from our tale to stray ; It happ'd , that once upon a fummer's ...
... fhow The feats true lovers , when they lift , can do : Though watch'd and captive , yet in spite of all , They found the art of kifling through a wall . But now no longer from our tale to stray ; It happ'd , that once upon a fummer's ...
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Page 92 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 23 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 92 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Page 89 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 89 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Page 13 - Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Page 35 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 161 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...
Page 102 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!