The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, 21. köide1807 |
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... wise men walk'd as on inchanted ground . But now when time has made th ' imposture plain , ( Late though he follow'd Truth , and limping held her train ) What new delusion charms your cheated eyes The painted harlot might awhile bewitch ...
... wise men walk'd as on inchanted ground . But now when time has made th ' imposture plain , ( Late though he follow'd Truth , and limping held her train ) What new delusion charms your cheated eyes The painted harlot might awhile bewitch ...
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... wise alliance with her foes . Can Conscience own th ' associating name , And raise no blushes to conceal her shame ? For sure she has been thought a bashful dame . But if the cause , by battle , should be tried , You grant she must ...
... wise alliance with her foes . Can Conscience own th ' associating name , And raise no blushes to conceal her shame ? For sure she has been thought a bashful dame . But if the cause , by battle , should be tried , You grant she must ...
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... wise . After a grave consult what course were best , One , more mature in folly than the rest , Stood up , and told them , with his head aside , That desp❜rate cures must be to desp'rate ills apply'd ; And , therefore , since their ...
... wise . After a grave consult what course were best , One , more mature in folly than the rest , Stood up , and told them , with his head aside , That desp❜rate cures must be to desp'rate ills apply'd ; And , therefore , since their ...
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... wise . Almighty crowd ! thou shorten'st all dispute , 91 Pow'r is thy essence , wit thy attribute ; Nor faith , nor reason make thee at a stay , Thou leap'st o'er all eternal truths in thy Pindaric Athens , no doubt , did righteously ...
... wise . Almighty crowd ! thou shorten'st all dispute , 91 Pow'r is thy essence , wit thy attribute ; Nor faith , nor reason make thee at a stay , Thou leap'st o'er all eternal truths in thy Pindaric Athens , no doubt , did righteously ...
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... wise and wealthy love the surest way , And are content to thrive and to obey : But wisdom is to sloth too great a slave ; None are so busy as the fool and knave . Those let me curse ; what vengeance will they urge , Whose ordures ...
... wise and wealthy love the surest way , And are content to thrive and to obey : But wisdom is to sloth too great a slave ; None are so busy as the fool and knave . Those let me curse ; what vengeance will they urge , Whose ordures ...
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Amyntas Arcite arms beauty began behold betwixt blood breast call'd Canterbury tales charms Chaucer court crime crowd damn'd dare death design'd DRYDEN DUCHESS of YORK Duke of Guise e'en Emily EPILOGUE ev'ry eyes face fair fame fate fear fight foes fools forc'd give grace happy hast heart Heav'n heav'nly honor JOHN DRYDEN kind king knight ladies laws learn'd liv'd live look'd lord lov'd mighty mind mortal Muse ne'er never noble numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon peace Pirithous plac'd play pleas'd pleasure poets pow'r praise prince PROLOGUE queen race rais'd reign rest rhyme sacred satire scarce sigh sight Silent Woman soul sov'reign stage sure sweet Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought thro true turn'd Twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD verse Virgil virtue whate'er Whigs wise write young youth
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Page 70 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Page 6 - Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What' passion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms.
Page 51 - Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years: Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Page 72 - He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
Page 78 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off ; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace.
Page 38 - She gave but glimpses of her glorious mind : And multitudes of virtues pass'd along ; Each pressing foremost in the mighty throng, Ambitious to be seen, and then make room For greater multitudes that were to come.
Page 96 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 69 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 134 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 75 - Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners; under which name I comprehend the passions and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons and their very habits.