A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Swift. Thompson. Watts. Hamilton. A. Philips. G. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. HarteJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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... pride , his fpirit , or his ambition , call it by what name you please , was boundless ; but his views were checked in his younger years , and the anxiety of that disappointment had a vi- fible effect upon all his actions . He was four ...
... pride , his fpirit , or his ambition , call it by what name you please , was boundless ; but his views were checked in his younger years , and the anxiety of that disappointment had a vi- fible effect upon all his actions . He was four ...
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... pride and cruelty . Woman feems now above all vanity grown , Still boafting of her great unknown Platonic champions , gain'd without one female Or the vast charges of a smile ; Which ' tis a fhame to fee how much of late [ wile , You've ...
... pride and cruelty . Woman feems now above all vanity grown , Still boafting of her great unknown Platonic champions , gain'd without one female Or the vast charges of a smile ; Which ' tis a fhame to fee how much of late [ wile , You've ...
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... pride . ' Some few days after , Harley spies The Doctor faften'd by the eyes At Charing - crofs among the rout , Where painted monsters are hung out : He pull'd the ftring , and stopt his coach , Beckoning the Doctor to approach . Swift ...
... pride . ' Some few days after , Harley spies The Doctor faften'd by the eyes At Charing - crofs among the rout , Where painted monsters are hung out : He pull'd the ftring , and stopt his coach , Beckoning the Doctor to approach . Swift ...
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... pride , and port . But , after fage monitions from his friends , His talents to employ for nobler ends ; To better judgments willing to fubmit , He turns to politics his dangerous wit . And now , the public intereft to fupport , By ...
... pride , and port . But , after fage monitions from his friends , His talents to employ for nobler ends ; To better judgments willing to fubmit , He turns to politics his dangerous wit . And now , the public intereft to fupport , By ...
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... pride began to interpose ; Preferr'd before a crowd of beaux ! So bright a nymph to come unfought ! Such wonder by his merit wrought ! ' Tis merit muft with her prevail ! He never knew her judgment fail ! She noted all the ever read ...
... pride began to interpose ; Preferr'd before a crowd of beaux ! So bright a nymph to come unfought ! Such wonder by his merit wrought ! ' Tis merit muft with her prevail ! He never knew her judgment fail ! She noted all the ever read ...
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Page 152 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Page 227 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 200 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 308 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 417 - Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast ; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost : My bosom glow'd ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Page 532 - O thou, whose spirit most possest The sacred seat of Shakspeare's breast! By all that from thy prophet broke. In thy divine emotions spoke ; Hither again thy fury deal, Teach me but once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee ! ODE TO SIMPLICITY.
Page 537 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Page 150 - As Rochefoucault his Maxims drew From Nature, I believe them true ; They argue no corrupted mind In him ; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast, ' In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends, While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Page 234 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 10 - Then stepp'd aside to fetch them drink, Fill'da large jug up to the brink, And saw it fairly twice go round ; Yet (what is wonderful !) they found, 'Twas still replenish'd to the top, As if they ne'er had touch'da drop.