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134 151 The Author ' s Life , by Mr . Chalmers . . . . . . . . . 109 | The Kite and the
Rooks . . 179 The Author ' s Preface to his Epigoniad . . . . . . . . . 123 | The Muse
and the Shepherd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 THE EPIGONIAD . The Grasshopper and
the ...
134 151 The Author ' s Life , by Mr . Chalmers . . . . . . . . . 109 | The Kite and the
Rooks . . 179 The Author ' s Preface to his Epigoniad . . . . . . . . . 123 | The Muse
and the Shepherd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 THE EPIGONIAD . The Grasshopper and
the ...
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His muse , bright angel of his verse , Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce , For
all the pangs that rage : Blest light still gaining on the gloom , The more than
Michael of his bloom , Th ' Abishag of his age . He sung of God , the mighty
source ...
His muse , bright angel of his verse , Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce , For
all the pangs that rage : Blest light still gaining on the gloom , The more than
Michael of his bloom , Th ' Abishag of his age . He sung of God , the mighty
source ...
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Of poems written in profound contempt , and with no other object than to
accumulate terms and epithets of the most poignant ridicule , the Hilliad perhaps
may be considered as the first . POEMS CHRISTOPHER SMART . ODES . Happy
Muse ...
Of poems written in profound contempt , and with no other object than to
accumulate terms and epithets of the most poignant ridicule , the Hilliad perhaps
may be considered as the first . POEMS CHRISTOPHER SMART . ODES . Happy
Muse ...
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Happy Muse , that didst embrace The sweet , the heav ' nly - fragrant place ! Tell
me , is the omen true , Shall the bard arrive there too ? Oft thro ' my eyes my soul
has flown , And wanton ' d on that ivory throne : There with extatic transport burn ...
Happy Muse , that didst embrace The sweet , the heav ' nly - fragrant place ! Tell
me , is the omen true , Shall the bard arrive there too ? Oft thro ' my eyes my soul
has flown , And wanton ' d on that ivory throne : There with extatic transport burn ...
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Twas thus when Israel ' s legislator dy ' d , The grief - inspired Muse shall sing Vo
fragile mortal honours were supply ' d , Ja tend ' rest lays thy fate . But even a
grave denied . What time by thee scholastic pride Better than what the pencil ' s ...
Twas thus when Israel ' s legislator dy ' d , The grief - inspired Muse shall sing Vo
fragile mortal honours were supply ' d , Ja tend ' rest lays thy fate . But even a
grave denied . What time by thee scholastic pride Better than what the pencil ' s ...
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Page 78 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 493 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 95 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 492 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly!
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Page 493 - Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies; While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.
Page 493 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
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| Title | Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson 16. köide of The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Alexander Chalmers 16. köide of Works of the English poets from Chaucer to Cowper : in twenty-one volumes / S. Johnson; Alexander Chalmers |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Alexander Chalmers |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1810 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 jaan. 2008 |
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