The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... just as to confess , that it is but a trifle ; and to wish the tyrant dethroned , and Blank Verfe fet up in its room . There is * a third perfon , the living glory of our English Poetry , who has difclaimed the use of it upon the Stage ...
... just as to confess , that it is but a trifle ; and to wish the tyrant dethroned , and Blank Verfe fet up in its room . There is * a third perfon , the living glory of our English Poetry , who has difclaimed the use of it upon the Stage ...
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... just anger burns , And foreign war with civil rage returns . Ah ! fpare your fwords , where beauty is to blame ; Love gave th ' affront , and muft repair the fame : When France fhall boast of her , whofe conquering eyes Have made the ...
... just anger burns , And foreign war with civil rage returns . Ah ! fpare your fwords , where beauty is to blame ; Love gave th ' affront , and muft repair the fame : When France fhall boast of her , whofe conquering eyes Have made the ...
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... just fo much as lets the fun appear ; Heaven then would feem thy image , and reflect Those fable vestments , and that bright aspect . A fpark of virtue by the deepest shade Of fad adversity , is fairer made ; Nor lefs advantage doth thy ...
... just fo much as lets the fun appear ; Heaven then would feem thy image , and reflect Those fable vestments , and that bright aspect . A fpark of virtue by the deepest shade Of fad adversity , is fairer made ; Nor lefs advantage doth thy ...
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... just grief opprest : Yet let no portion of your life be stain'd With paffion , but your character maintain'd To the last act : it is enough her stone May honour'd be with fuperfcription Of the fole Lady , who had power to move 5 of TO ...
... just grief opprest : Yet let no portion of your life be stain'd With paffion , but your character maintain'd To the last act : it is enough her stone May honour'd be with fuperfcription Of the fole Lady , who had power to move 5 of TO ...
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... Just nature , first instructed by his thought , In his own house thus practis'd what he taught : This glorious piece tranfcends what he could think ; So much his blood is nobler than his ink ! R TO VAN DYCK . ARE Artifan , whofe pencil ...
... Just nature , first instructed by his thought , In his own house thus practis'd what he taught : This glorious piece tranfcends what he could think ; So much his blood is nobler than his ink ! R TO VAN DYCK . ARE Artifan , whofe pencil ...
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againſt Amoret beauty beſt bleft bold bounty brave breaſt bright CANTO Chloris command courage dame Engliſh Epicurus eyes facred fafe fair falutes fame fate feem fhall fhining fight fince fing firft firſt flain flame foes fome foon foul ftill fuch give glory grace heart Heaven himſelf increaſe inftruct iſland itſelf Jove juſt King Lady laft laſt lefs leſs light loft Lucretius mind monſters mortals moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt noble nobler Numbers Nymph o'er paffion peace Phoebus plac'd pleaſe pleaſure Poems praiſe prefent Prince Prince of Orange rage raiſe reafon reſt rife royal ſea ſeems ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhip ſhould ſhow ſpoil ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtay ſtill ſuch ſweet tempeft thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand uſe Verfe verſes vex'd virtue WALLER whofe Whoſe wind wonder youth
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Halaman 59 - extremeft fpher.e, The pale which held that lovely deer: My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! A narrow compafs ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that 's fair: Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the
Halaman 59 - as white, a ball of new-fall'n fnow. ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her flender waift confin'd, Shall now my joyful temples bind': No monarch but would give his crown, His arms might do what this has done.. It was my heaven's
Halaman 199 - Her, that unbody'd can her Maker praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er: So, calm are we, when paffions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boaft Of
Halaman 71 - Then die ! that fhe The common fate of all things rare May read in thee: How fmall a part of time they fhare, That are fo wondrous fweet
Halaman 103 - the heavieft metal, hither fwims : Ours is the harveft where the Indians mow, We plough the Deep, and reap what others fow. Things of the nobleft kind our own foil breeds; Stout are our men, and warlike are our fteeds : Rome, though her eagle through the world had flown, Could never make this
Halaman 30 - the liftening deer Attend my paflion, and forget to fear : When to the beeches I report my flame, They bow their heads, as if they felt the fame: To Gods appealing, when I reach their Bowers With loud complaints, they anfwer me in mowers. To
Halaman 103 - us from ourfelves, and from the foe, Make us unite, and make us conquer too; Let partial fpirits ftill aloud complain : Think themfelves injur'd that they cannot reign: And own no liberty, but where they may Without controul upon their fellows prey. Above the waves as Neptune fhew'd his face To chide the winds, and fave
Halaman 57 - feem'd to frame, And meafure out, this only dame. Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whofe heads thofe arrows fly Of fad diftruft, and jealoufy: Secured in as high extreme, As if the world held none but them. To him the faireft nymphs do
Halaman 140 - And all an Englifh pen can hope; To make the Fair approve his flame,. That can fo far extend their fame. Verfe, thus defign'd, has no ill fate, If it arrive but at the date Of fading beauty; if it prove But as long-liv'd as prefent love; Upon the Earl of ROSCOMMON'S
Halaman 22 - flame, It could not equalize the hundredth part, : Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart! » Go, boy, and carve this paffion on the bark Of yonder tree, which ftands the facred mark Of noble Sidney's birth ; when fuch benign, > Such more than mortal-making ftars did