The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 10. köideH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fuch is to be found ; Take then a fubject proper to expound : But moral , great , and worth a poet's voice , For men of fense despise a trivial choice : And fuch applause it must expect to meet , As would fome painter busy in a street ...
... fuch is to be found ; Take then a fubject proper to expound : But moral , great , and worth a poet's voice , For men of fense despise a trivial choice : And fuch applause it must expect to meet , As would fome painter busy in a street ...
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... fuch true , fuch bright ideas raise , As merit gratitude , as well as praise : But foul defcriptions are offenfive still , Either for being like , or being ill . For who , without a qualm , hath ever look'd On holy garbage , though by ...
... fuch true , fuch bright ideas raise , As merit gratitude , as well as praise : But foul defcriptions are offenfive still , Either for being like , or being ill . For who , without a qualm , hath ever look'd On holy garbage , though by ...
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... fuch had left the nation thin , In spite of all the children he brought in . His pills as thick as hand - granadoes flew ; And where they fell , as certainly they flew ; His name ftruck every where as great a damp , As Archimedes ...
... fuch had left the nation thin , In spite of all the children he brought in . His pills as thick as hand - granadoes flew ; And where they fell , as certainly they flew ; His name ftruck every where as great a damp , As Archimedes ...
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... reach the noble height of fome unusual flight . I lose my patience , when with faucy pride , By untun'd ears I hear his numbers try'd . } Reverse Reverse of nature ! fhall fuch copies then Arraign th 224 ROSCOMMON'S POEMS .
... reach the noble height of fome unusual flight . I lose my patience , when with faucy pride , By untun'd ears I hear his numbers try'd . } Reverse Reverse of nature ! fhall fuch copies then Arraign th 224 ROSCOMMON'S POEMS .
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. Reverse of nature ! fhall fuch copies then Arraign th ' originals of Maro's pen ! And the rude notions of pedantic schools Blafpheme the facred founder of our rules ! The delicacy ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. Reverse of nature ! fhall fuch copies then Arraign th ' originals of Maro's pen ! And the rude notions of pedantic schools Blafpheme the facred founder of our rules ! The delicacy ...
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Page 251 - Let not those agonies be vain. Thou whom avenging powers obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting day.
Page 296 - Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. The time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine? The present moment's all my lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine.
Page 337 - ... deny'd ? And may not I have leave impartially To search and censure Dryden's works, and try If those gross faults his choice pen doth commit Proceed from want of judgment, or of wit ? Or if his lumpish fancy does refuse Spirit and grace to his loose slattern Muse ? Five hundred verses every morning writ, Prove him no more a poet than a wit...
Page 219 - Comment that your Care can find, Some here, some there, may hit the Poet's Mind; Yet be not blindly guided by the Throng; The Multitude is always in the Wrong.
Page 318 - ... take care Upon this point, not to be too severe. Perhaps my muse were fitter for this part, For I profess I can be very smart On wit, which I abhor with all my heart.
Page 336 - Dryden in vain tried this nice way of wit; For he, to be a tearing blade, thought fit To give the ladies a dry bawdy bob ; And thus he got the name of Poet Squab. But to be just, 'twill to his praise be found, His excellencies more than faults abound ; Nor dare I from his sacred temples tear The laurel, which he best deserves to wear.
Page 317 - Then old Age, and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him understand, After a search so painful, and so long, That all his Life he has been in the wrong.
Page 294 - That tears my fixed heart from my love. When, wearied with a world of woe, To thy safe bosom I retire Where love and peace and truth does flow, May I contented there expire, Lest, once more wandering from that Heaven, I fall on some base heart unblest, Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven, And lose my everlasting rest.
Page 326 - Ere time and place were, time and place were not, When primitive Nothing something straight begot, Then all proceeded from the great united — What.
Page 215 - Tis true, composing is the nobler part, But good translation is no easy art : For tho' materials have long since been found, Yet both your fancy, and your hands are bound , And by improving what was writ before, Invention labours less, but judgment more.