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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... mufe fincere , that never flattery knew , Pays what to friendship and defert is due . Young , yet judicious ; in your verfe are found , Art strengthening nature , fense improv'd by found . Unlike those wits , whofe numbers glide along ...
... mufe fincere , that never flattery knew , Pays what to friendship and defert is due . Young , yet judicious ; in your verfe are found , Art strengthening nature , fense improv'd by found . Unlike those wits , whofe numbers glide along ...
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... mufe , thy quick , poetic eyes , And view gay fcenes and opening profpects rife . Hark ! how his ruftic numbers charm around , While groves to groves , and hills to hills refound ! The liftening beasts stand fearless as he fings , And ...
... mufe , thy quick , poetic eyes , And view gay fcenes and opening profpects rife . Hark ! how his ruftic numbers charm around , While groves to groves , and hills to hills refound ! The liftening beasts stand fearless as he fings , And ...
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... mufe her flender reed inspire , Till in your native fhades you tune the lyre : So when the nightingale to reft removes , The thrush may chant to the forfaken groves , But charm'd to filence , liftens while the fings , And all th ...
... mufe her flender reed inspire , Till in your native fhades you tune the lyre : So when the nightingale to reft removes , The thrush may chant to the forfaken groves , But charm'd to filence , liftens while the fings , And all th ...
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... mufe's feats , Invite my lays . Be present , Sylvan maids ! Unlock your fprings , and open all your fhades . Granville commands ; your aid , O muses , bring ! What mufe for Granville can refuse to fing ? The groves of Eden , vanish'd ...
... mufe's feats , Invite my lays . Be present , Sylvan maids ! Unlock your fprings , and open all your fhades . Granville commands ; your aid , O muses , bring ! What mufe for Granville can refuse to fing ? The groves of Eden , vanish'd ...
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... mufe's handmaid prov'd , To drefs her charms , and make her more belov'd : But following wits from that intention stray'd , Who could not win the mistress woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate most ...
... mufe's handmaid prov'd , To drefs her charms , and make her more belov'd : But following wits from that intention stray'd , Who could not win the mistress woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate most ...
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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!