 Bear me, some god ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense ; Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free soul looks down to pity kings ! There sober thought pursued th' amusing theme, Till fancy colour'd it,...  A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of Imitation - Page 43by Richard Hurd - 1757 - 76 lehteFull view - About this book
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 432 lehte
...faft, as one that pays his Bail ' And dreads more Actions, hurries from a |ait . Bear me, fome God ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholefome Solitude, the Nurfe of Senfe : There Contemplation prunes her ruffled Wings, And the free Soul looks down to pity Kings. The fober... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 lehte
...author makes us amends by the following invocation, which is admirably fublime. ** Bqar me, fome God ! oh quickly bear me " hence " To wholefome Solitude,...: " Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled " wings if, •" And the free foul looks down to pity " Kings !" la the verfification mended, to fit it for... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 lehte
...author makes us amends by the following invocation, which is admirably fublime. " Bear me, fome God ! oh quickly bear me " hence •" To wholefome Solitude,...'* Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled " wings J, *' And the free foul looks down to pity "Kings!" In the verfification mended, to fit it for his... | |
 | Horace - 1776 - 282 lehte
...mirfc. of Se.nfc.i " \Vhere Contemplation prunes her ruffled £C ii.in/Tc "* wings, ( : vf/orJ: 3rb ** And the free Soul looks down, to pity kings. " Mr. Pope has not only improved the barv •" mony, but the fenfe. In Milton, Canlem*' plation is called the Nttrfe ., in Pope, more **... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 lehte
...as faft as one that pays his bail, And dreads more actions, hurries from a jail. Bear me, fome God ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholefome Solitude, the nurfe of Senfe : 185 \Vhere Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free foul looks down to pity Kings ! There... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 lehte
...as faft, as one that pays his bail, And dreads more actions, hurries from a jail.Bear me, fome God ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholefome Solitude, the nurfe of Senfe : P 2 Where Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free foul looks down to pity Kings... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 lehte
...with fuch, or more haft than one Who fears more aftions, doth haft from prifon. Bear me, Come God ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholefome Solitude, the nurfe of Senfe: 185 Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free foul looks down to pity Kings! There... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 lehte
...as faft as one that pays his bail, And dreads more aflions, hurries from a jail. Bear me, fome God! oh quickly bear me hence To wholefome Solitude, the nurfe of Senfe ; 1 85; Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the fiee foul looks down to pity Kings !... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 lehte
...return to the note on the Imitations of Horace, Book i. Epift 6. ver. 123. Ver. 184. Bear me, fome God ! oh quickly bear me hence To wholefome Solitude, the...Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free foul looks down to pity kings ! If'arburtons remarks on thefe four lines are elegant, ingenious, and... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 lehte
...than one Bear me, some God! oh! quickly bear me hence To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense; 185 Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, And the free soul looks down to pity kings ! There sober thought pursu'd th' amusing theme, Till fancy colour'd it, and form'da dream. A vision... | |
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