The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, 45. köide1790 |
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... thousand charms at once my thoughts engage ; Sappho's foft fweetness , Pindar's warmer rage , Statius ' free vigour , Virgil's ftudious care , And Homer's force , and Ovid's easier air . So feems fome picture , where exact defign , And ...
... thousand charms at once my thoughts engage ; Sappho's foft fweetness , Pindar's warmer rage , Statius ' free vigour , Virgil's ftudious care , And Homer's force , and Ovid's easier air . So feems fome picture , where exact defign , And ...
Page 63
... thousand steps are loft . See the bold youth ftrain up the threatening fteep , 155 Rush through the thickets , down the valleys fweep , Hang o'er their courfers heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying fteed ...
... thousand steps are loft . See the bold youth ftrain up the threatening fteep , 155 Rush through the thickets , down the valleys fweep , Hang o'er their courfers heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying fteed ...
Page 84
... thousand grateful thoughts arife ; 30 Or meets his spouse's fonder eye ; Or views his fmiling progeny ; What tender paflions take their turns , What home - felt raptures move ! His heart now melts , now leaps , now burns , With ...
... thousand grateful thoughts arife ; 30 Or meets his spouse's fonder eye ; Or views his fmiling progeny ; What tender paflions take their turns , What home - felt raptures move ! His heart now melts , now leaps , now burns , With ...
Page 105
... thousand charms confpire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnaffus but to please their ear , Not mend their minds ; as fome to church repair , Not for the doctrine , but the mufic there . Thefe , equal ...
... thousand charms confpire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnaffus but to please their ear , Not mend their minds ; as fome to church repair , Not for the doctrine , but the mufic there . Thefe , equal ...
Page 110
... thousand years : Now length of Fame ( our fecond life ) is loft , And bare threescore is all ev'n that can boast ; Our fons their fathers ' failing language fee , And fuch as Chaucer is , fhall Dryden be . So when the faithful pencil ...
... thousand years : Now length of Fame ( our fecond life ) is loft , And bare threescore is all ev'n that can boast ; Our fons their fathers ' failing language fee , And fuch as Chaucer is , fhall Dryden be . So when the faithful pencil ...
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beſt bleft bluſh breaft bright charms crown'd Cynthus Dæmons defert Dryope eaſe Eclogue ev'n eyes facred faid fair fame fate feas feem fenfe fhades fhall fhepherds fhining fhore fhould fide fighs filent filver fince fing fire firft firſt fix'd fkies flain flames flowers foft fome fong fons foon foul fpring ftill ftrains ftreams fuch fung fure fwell fylvan Gnome Goddeſs grace groves heart heaven himſelf honours infpire itſelf juft laft laſt lefs loft mihi moft moſt Mufe mufic muft Muſe muſt night numbers Nymph o'er paffions Paftorals paſt Phaon Phoebus plain pleafing pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure Poets praiſe rage raiſe refound reft rife Sappho ſcene ſhade ſhall ſhe ſkies ſky ſpeak ſpread ſtill Sylphs tears Thebes thee thefe Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand trembling Umbriel uſeful vafes VARIATIONS verſe whofe whoſe wife youth
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Page 53 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend...
Page 111 - Our sons their fathers' failing language see, And such as Chaucer is, shall Dryden be. So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready Nature waits upon his hand; When the ripe colours...
Page 86 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 132 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 105 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 52 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 158 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpitied, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd and by strangers mourn'd ! What tho...
Page 116 - The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears.
Page 103 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine. And glittering thoughts struck out at every line; Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked Nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Page 159 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?