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... mankind ; Chiefs , by whose virtue mighty Rome was rais'd , And poets , who those chiefs sublimely prais'd ! Oft I the traces you have left explore , Your ashes visit , and your urns adore ; Oft kiss , with lips devout , some mouldering ...
... mankind ; Chiefs , by whose virtue mighty Rome was rais'd , And poets , who those chiefs sublimely prais'd ! Oft I the traces you have left explore , Your ashes visit , and your urns adore ; Oft kiss , with lips devout , some mouldering ...
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... seldom do any man so much good as ill - will does him harm . Then there is a third class of people , who make the largest part of mankind , those of ordinary or in- VOL . I. C different capacities ; and these , to a man , PREFACE . 17.
... seldom do any man so much good as ill - will does him harm . Then there is a third class of people , who make the largest part of mankind , those of ordinary or in- VOL . I. C different capacities ; and these , to a man , PREFACE . 17.
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... mankind , the most ancient sort of poetry was probably pastoral 2. It is na- tural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient Written at sixteen years of age . 2 Fontenelle's Discourse on Pastorals . shepherds admitting and inviting ...
... mankind , the most ancient sort of poetry was probably pastoral 2. It is na- tural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient Written at sixteen years of age . 2 Fontenelle's Discourse on Pastorals . shepherds admitting and inviting ...
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... mankind , and all the world - but love ! I know thee , Love , on foreign mountains bred , Wolves gave thee suck , and savage tigers fed ; Thou wert from ¯tna's burning entrails torn , Got by fierce whirlwinds , and in thunder born ...
... mankind , and all the world - but love ! I know thee , Love , on foreign mountains bred , Wolves gave thee suck , and savage tigers fed ; Thou wert from ¯tna's burning entrails torn , Got by fierce whirlwinds , and in thunder born ...
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... mankind his guardian care engage , The promis'd father 13 of the future age . 12 IMITATIONS . in the desert a high way for our God ! Every valley shall be exalted , and every mountain and fill shall be made low , and the crooked shall ...
... mankind his guardian care engage , The promis'd father 13 of the future age . 12 IMITATIONS . in the desert a high way for our God ! Every valley shall be exalted , and every mountain and fill shall be made low , and the crooked shall ...
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Page 71 - 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 30 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 36 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 34 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 90 - And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. For after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame,...
Page 12 - In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 11 - Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 20 - Tales.' With him most authors steal their works, or buy : Garth did not write his own 'Dispensary.
Page 70 - 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. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Page 71 - 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, Nourish'd two locks which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...