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 |
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... smile , in the Tragedy of Julius Cæfar ? —If not , let us give it in a word the highest praise , and say , it is Shakspearean . He fmil'd , But such a smile as quite out - forrows tears . MASON . Sterne , the Rabelais of Britain ...
... smile , in the Tragedy of Julius Cæfar ? —If not , let us give it in a word the highest praise , and say , it is Shakspearean . He fmil'd , But such a smile as quite out - forrows tears . MASON . Sterne , the Rabelais of Britain ...
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... smiling day will fome new charms unfold , And industry convert thy drofs to gold ; And , to the generous mind worth all the rest , Blefs thee with means of making thousands bless'd : Scoff as thou wilt , to that my words propose , 495 ...
... smiling day will fome new charms unfold , And industry convert thy drofs to gold ; And , to the generous mind worth all the rest , Blefs thee with means of making thousands bless'd : Scoff as thou wilt , to that my words propose , 495 ...
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... smiling day will fome new charms unfold , And industry convert thy drofs to gold ; And , to the generous mind worth all the rest , Blefs thee with means of making thousands blefs'd : Scoff as thou wilt , to that my words propofe , Her ...
... smiling day will fome new charms unfold , And industry convert thy drofs to gold ; And , to the generous mind worth all the rest , Blefs thee with means of making thousands blefs'd : Scoff as thou wilt , to that my words propofe , Her ...
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... smile , or to reform with Harry : 55 60 Say , on the world's great stage we ne'er will deign , To diffimulate a vice , or virtue feign ; But fcorning little views and mean controul , Avow the genuine dictates of the soul . OCCASIONAL A ...
... smile , or to reform with Harry : 55 60 Say , on the world's great stage we ne'er will deign , To diffimulate a vice , or virtue feign ; But fcorning little views and mean controul , Avow the genuine dictates of the soul . OCCASIONAL A ...
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... smiling thoughts of babes asleep ! Virtuous herself , may fhe be Virtue's friend , And all good angels on her steps attend ! 50 As for our fairy BACCHANALIAN troop , 55 ( In character promifcuously they groupe ) Careless and free , they ...
... smiling thoughts of babes asleep ! Virtuous herself , may fhe be Virtue's friend , And all good angels on her steps attend ! 50 As for our fairy BACCHANALIAN troop , 55 ( In character promifcuously they groupe ) Careless and free , they ...
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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.