The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 31Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... little we difcover , but allow , That more remains unfeen , than art can show : So , whilft our mind its knowledge would improve ( Its feeble eye intent on things above ) , High as we may , we lift our reafon up High 28 PRIOR'S POEMS .
... little we difcover , but allow , That more remains unfeen , than art can show : So , whilft our mind its knowledge would improve ( Its feeble eye intent on things above ) , High as we may , we lift our reafon up High 28 PRIOR'S POEMS .
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... reafon up , By Faith directed , and confirm'd by Hope : Yet we are able only to furvey Dawning of beams , and promifes of day . Heaven's fuller effluence mocks our dazzled fight ; Too great its fwiftness , and too strong its light . But ...
... reafon up , By Faith directed , and confirm'd by Hope : Yet we are able only to furvey Dawning of beams , and promifes of day . Heaven's fuller effluence mocks our dazzled fight ; Too great its fwiftness , and too strong its light . But ...
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... reafon , 150 That came at all , though late in feason . But no man fure e'er left his house , And faddled Ball , with thoughts fo wild , To bring a midwife to his fpoufe , Before he knew fhe was with - child , 155 And no man ever reapt ...
... reafon , 150 That came at all , though late in feason . But no man fure e'er left his house , And faddled Ball , with thoughts fo wild , To bring a midwife to his fpoufe , Before he knew fhe was with - child , 155 And no man ever reapt ...
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... reafon for ' t , Say , one was long , and t ' other fhort . Thus , I prefume , the British Muse May take the freedom ftrangers use . In profe our property is greater : Why should it then be lefs in metre ? 420 425 If If Cupid throws a ...
... reafon for ' t , Say , one was long , and t ' other fhort . Thus , I prefume , the British Muse May take the freedom ftrangers use . In profe our property is greater : Why should it then be lefs in metre ? 420 425 If If Cupid throws a ...
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... reafon may dispense ; And found has right to govern sense . But let your friends in verse suppose , What ne'er shall be allow'd in profe ; Anatomifts can make it clear , The liver minds his own affair ; 430 435 Kindly fupplies our ...
... reafon may dispense ; And found has right to govern sense . But let your friends in verse suppose , What ne'er shall be allow'd in profe ; Anatomifts can make it clear , The liver minds his own affair ; 430 435 Kindly fupplies our ...
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Halaman 116 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had " wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: " And behold all was vanity, and vexation of fpirit; " and there was no profit under the fun.
Halaman 150 - or the wheel broken at the ciftern." Eccl . xii. 6. «' The fun arifeth, and the fun goeth down, and hafteth " to his place where he arofe." Ch. i. 5. " The wind goeth towards the fouth, and turneth about " unto the north. It whirleth about continually; " and the wind returned] again, according to his
Halaman 27 - fweeter founds adorn my flowing tongue, -*-' Than ever man pronounc'd, or angels fung; Had I all knowledge, human and divine, That thought can reach, or fcience can define ; And had I power to give that knowledge birth, In all the fpeeches of the babbling earth; Did Shadrach's zeal my glowing
Halaman 88 - I know, that whatfoever God doeth, it fhall be for " ever : nothing can be put to it, nor any thing " taken from it ; and God doeth it, that men fhould " fear before him.
Halaman 25 - In all the fpeeches of the babbling earth; Did Shadrach's zeal my glowing breaft infpire,, To weary tortures, and rejoice in fire; Or had I faith like that which Ifrael faw When Mofes gave them miracles and law : Yet, gracious Charity ! indulgent gueft, Were not thy power exerted in my breaft;
Halaman 88 - He fpake of trees, from the Cedar-tree that is in " Lebanon, even unto the Hyflbp that fpringeth out " of the wall: he fpake alfo of beafts, and of fowl, " and of creeping things, and of fifhes.
Halaman 27 - infpire,, To weary tortures, and rejoice in fire ; Or had I faith like that which Ifrael faw When Mofes gave them miracles and law : Yet, gracious Charity ! indulgent gueft, Were not thy power exerted in my breaft; Thofe fpeeches would fend up unheeded
Halaman 116 - in them of all kind of fruits." Ver. 5. *' I made me pools of water, to water therewith the " wood that bringeth forth trees.
Halaman 25 - fweeter founds adorn my flowing tongue, •*"' Than ever man pronounc'd, or angels fung; Had I all knowledge, human and divine, That thought can reach, or fcience can define; And had I power to give that knowledge
Halaman 36 - The bully beat, and happy lover, Confefs, that feeling lies all over. 135 Note here, Lucretius dares to teach (As all our youth may learn from Creech) That eyes were made, but could not view; Nor hands embrace, nor feet purfue : But heedlefs Nature did produce 140 The members