Poems on Various Subjects: Ornamented with Plates, and Illustrated with Notes, Original Letters and Curious Incidental Anecdotes. In the Course of which the Pretended Miracles of Vespasian are Examined and Detected. By Samuel WhyteRobert Marchbank, and sold by Byrne, Moore, Rice, Milliken, Mercier, &c, and by the editor, 1795 - 545 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 43
Page iv
... scenes of diffipation , fhe would engage his attention , and keep him awake till morning . He wrote with little premeditation , generally on the fpur of the occafion , and was fingularly indifferent to the fate of his compo- fitions ...
... scenes of diffipation , fhe would engage his attention , and keep him awake till morning . He wrote with little premeditation , generally on the fpur of the occafion , and was fingularly indifferent to the fate of his compo- fitions ...
Page viii
... scene , representing the Author's providential efcape at Curdworth - Bridge , near Coleshill in Warwickshire , to face page III . V. Balloon , to face page 195 . VIGNETTES ten . That at the conclusion of the THEATRE is a front view of ...
... scene , representing the Author's providential efcape at Curdworth - Bridge , near Coleshill in Warwickshire , to face page III . V. Balloon , to face page 195 . VIGNETTES ten . That at the conclusion of the THEATRE is a front view of ...
Page xix
... scene of the fourth act of Richard the Second , and it will be found , that , long before Sterne , the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling , had glanced at the records in the book of Heaven . ( 5 ) The faftidious Swift , who is held up ...
... scene of the fourth act of Richard the Second , and it will be found , that , long before Sterne , the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling , had glanced at the records in the book of Heaven . ( 5 ) The faftidious Swift , who is held up ...
Page xl
... scene . Mercenary views and conduct of Europeans . - Immense Acquisi- tions their probable confequences . - Wealth inefficacious in cafes of confcience . - Tranfition to fubjects lefs forbidding.— Domestic profpects . - Man governed by ...
... scene . Mercenary views and conduct of Europeans . - Immense Acquisi- tions their probable confequences . - Wealth inefficacious in cafes of confcience . - Tranfition to fubjects lefs forbidding.— Domestic profpects . - Man governed by ...
Page 4
... fet to view " Than all their pedant difcipline e'er knew ; " Or if fome grains of merit they allow , The scene is chang'd , and things are different now ; 90 New New lights on all are by the Moderns thrown , THE THEATRE .
... fet to view " Than all their pedant difcipline e'er knew ; " Or if fome grains of merit they allow , The scene is chang'd , and things are different now ; 90 New New lights on all are by the Moderns thrown , THE THEATRE .
Contents
ix | |
xxxvii | |
1 | |
45 | |
93 | |
98 | |
103 | |
111 | |
194 | |
195 | |
204 | |
208 | |
210 | |
216 | |
237 | |
242 | |
122 | |
131 | |
133 | |
143 | |
156 | |
163 | |
170 | |
178 | |
181 | |
189 | |
244 | |
253 | |
254 | |
258 | |
277 | |
281 | |
317 | |
320 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abuſe againſt almoſt alſo bard beſt blefs'd bluſh boaſt breaſt cauſe charms confequence courſe dear Dublin Engliſh EPIGRAM erft fafe faid fame faſhion fenfe feven fhall fhine firft firſt fmile fome fong foon foul friendſhip ftands ftill ftrain fubject fuch fupport fure genius grace guife heart heaven himſelf honour James Wilder Jane Shore Johnſon juft juftice juſt Lady laft laſt lefs loft Lord Mafter maid MDCCLXXI merit Mifs moft moſt mufe muft muſe muſt numbers o'er occafion Oldboy paffage pleaſe pleaſure praiſe prefent purpoſe purſue raiſe reafon refpect reft ſay ſcarce ſcene ſcheme ſchool ſenſe ſhall ſhe Sheridan ſhould ſhow ſkill ſmile ſome ſpeak Spranger Barry ſtage ſtand ſtate ſuch ſupply ſweet taſk taſte thee themſelves theſe thofe Thomas Sheridan thoſe thou thouſand thro tongue truth uſe verfe verſe virtue whofe whoſe wife worth youth
Popular passages
Page 272 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page xx - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 272 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 270 - Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 260 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 271 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence.
Page 280 - One of the best attested miracles in all profane history, is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria, by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot; in obedience to a vision of the god Serapis, who had enjoined them to have recourse to the Emperor, for these miraculous cures.
Page 273 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 275 - From which ingredients first the dext'rous boy Pick'd the demure, the awkward, and the coy. The Graces from the court did next provide Breeding, and wit, and air, and decent pride: These Venus cleans'd from ev'ry spurious grain Of nice coquet, affected, pert, and vain. Jove mix'd up all, and the best clay employ'd; Then call'd the happy composition FLOYD.
Page 164 - To John I ow'd great obligation ; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit.