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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... those occafions showed tafte , and magnificence . Of his fortune , which was very honourably obtained , he was proud . The great topic of his ridicule is poverty . He was accused of loving money ; but his love was eagerness to gain ...
... those occafions showed tafte , and magnificence . Of his fortune , which was very honourably obtained , he was proud . The great topic of his ridicule is poverty . He was accused of loving money ; but his love was eagerness to gain ...
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... those of any other poet of our nation , except Spenfer , Shakspeare , and Milton . Of those poets who rank in the highest class after them , Dryden is generally allowed to be the first ; but his claim to that dif tinction is at least ...
... those of any other poet of our nation , except Spenfer , Shakspeare , and Milton . Of those poets who rank in the highest class after them , Dryden is generally allowed to be the first ; but his claim to that dif tinction is at least ...
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... those wits , whofe numbers glide along So ímooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the car : Our minds unmov'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most ...
... those wits , whofe numbers glide along So ímooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the car : Our minds unmov'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most ...
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... those which are called Paftorals ; nor a smaller , than those which are truly fo . It therefore feems neceffary to give fome account of this kind of Poem ; and it is my defign to comprise in this fhort paper the fub- stance of thofe ...
... those which are called Paftorals ; nor a smaller , than those which are truly fo . It therefore feems neceffary to give fome account of this kind of Poem ; and it is my defign to comprise in this fhort paper the fub- stance of thofe ...
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... those in the Pollio of Virgil . This will not seem surprising , when we reflect , that the Eclogue was taken from a ... those of the poet . But as I fear I have prejudiced them by my management , I shall subjoin the passages of ...
... those in the Pollio of Virgil . This will not seem surprising , when we reflect , that the Eclogue was taken from a ... those of the poet . But as I fear I have prejudiced them by my management , I shall subjoin the passages of ...
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Popular passages
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!