The Works of the English Poets: Denham and SprattH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... please Us for herself , with ftrange varieties , ( For things of wonder give no lefs delight , To the wife maker's , than beholder's fight . Though thefe delights from feveral caufes move For fo our children , thus our friends we love ) ...
... please Us for herself , with ftrange varieties , ( For things of wonder give no lefs delight , To the wife maker's , than beholder's fight . Though thefe delights from feveral caufes move For fo our children , thus our friends we love ) ...
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... and native , Hangs not on an ordinance , or power legislative . violation And And firft , ' tis to speak whatever we please 62 POEMS . DENHAM'S To the five Members of the Honourable House Commons The humble Petition of the Poets.
... and native , Hangs not on an ordinance , or power legislative . violation And And firft , ' tis to speak whatever we please 62 POEMS . DENHAM'S To the five Members of the Honourable House Commons The humble Petition of the Poets.
Halaman 63
Samuel Johnson. And firft , ' tis to speak whatever we please , Without fear of a prifon or pursuivants fees . Next , that we only may lye by authority ; But in that alfo you have got the priority . Next , an old custom , our fathers did ...
Samuel Johnson. And firft , ' tis to speak whatever we please , Without fear of a prifon or pursuivants fees . Next , that we only may lye by authority ; But in that alfo you have got the priority . Next , an old custom , our fathers did ...
Halaman 91
... please , or teach , but vex . Books should to one of these four ends conduce , For wisdom , picty , delight , or use . What need we gaze upon the spangled sky ? Or into matter's hidden causes pry ? To describe every city , stream , or ...
... please , or teach , but vex . Books should to one of these four ends conduce , For wisdom , picty , delight , or use . What need we gaze upon the spangled sky ? Or into matter's hidden causes pry ? To describe every city , stream , or ...
Halaman 93
... please our sense , wherein Beafts us exceed , nor feel the stings of fin ? What thoughts man's reafon better can become , Than th ' expectation of his welcome home ? Lords of the world have but for life their leafe , And that to ( if ...
... please our sense , wherein Beafts us exceed , nor feel the stings of fin ? What thoughts man's reafon better can become , Than th ' expectation of his welcome home ? Lords of the world have but for life their leafe , And that to ( if ...
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Halaman 57 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, •/ Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear...
Halaman 21 - First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swells: Stronger, and fiercer by restraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores.
Halaman 15 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Halaman 14 - Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a...
Halaman 18 - All instruments, all arts of ruin met; He calls to mind his strength, and then his speed, His winged heels, and then his armed head; With these t' avoid, with that his fate to meet; But fear prevails and bids him trust his feet.
Halaman 293 - 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. Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I by miracle can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heaven allows.
Halaman 314 - Likes me abundantly ; but you 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.
Halaman 335 - 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...
Halaman 53 - How unconcern'd in things to come ! if here uneasy, finds at Rome, at Paris, or Madrid, his home. Secure from low and private ends, his life, his zeal, his wealth attends his prince, his country, and his friends.
Halaman 58 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear} He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.