Juvenile poemsA. Millar, 1757 |
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Page xxiv
... pride of Perfia glitter'd on our strand , And China's Earth was caft on common fand : Tofs'd up and down the glofsy fragments lay , And dress'd the rocky shelves , and pav'd the painted bay . Thy treasures next arriv'd : and now we ...
... pride of Perfia glitter'd on our strand , And China's Earth was caft on common fand : Tofs'd up and down the glofsy fragments lay , And dress'd the rocky shelves , and pav'd the painted bay . Thy treasures next arriv'd : and now we ...
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... pride survey'st our lofty woods ; Where tow'ring oaks their growing honours rear , And future navies on thy shores appear , Not Neptune's self from all her streams receives A wealthier tribute , than to thine he gives . No seas so rich ...
... pride survey'st our lofty woods ; Where tow'ring oaks their growing honours rear , And future navies on thy shores appear , Not Neptune's self from all her streams receives A wealthier tribute , than to thine he gives . No seas so rich ...
Page 88
... Pride , ver . 208. 2. Imperfect Learning , ver . 215. 3. Judg- ing by parts , and not by the whole , ver . 233 to 288 . Critics in Wit , Language , Versification , only , ver . 288. 305. 339 , etc. 4. Being too hard to please , or too ...
... Pride , ver . 208. 2. Imperfect Learning , ver . 215. 3. Judg- ing by parts , and not by the whole , ver . 233 to 288 . Critics in Wit , Language , Versification , only , ver . 288. 305. 339 , etc. 4. Being too hard to please , or too ...
Page 112
... Pride , fuperficial Learning , a bounded Capacity , and Partiality ; They to whom this part is principally addressed , would not readily be brought either to fee the malignity of the causes , or to own them- selves concerned in the ...
... Pride , fuperficial Learning , a bounded Capacity , and Partiality ; They to whom this part is principally addressed , would not readily be brought either to fee the malignity of the causes , or to own them- selves concerned in the ...
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Alexander Pope. What the weak head with strongest bias rules , Is Pride , the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd , She givesin large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies , thus in fouls , we find ...
Alexander Pope. What the weak head with strongest bias rules , Is Pride , the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd , She givesin large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies , thus in fouls , we find ...
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Page 84 - 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 187 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Page 50 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Page 44 - On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods.
Page 171 - Then gay Ideas crowd the vacant brain, While Peers, and Dukes, and all their sweeping train, And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear...
Page xv - All that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients ; and it will be found true that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to them.
Page 112 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Page 119 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.
Page 177 - 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. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...
Page 211 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?