A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison. Hammond. Savage. Hill. Tickell. Somervile. Broome. Pitt. BlairJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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Página 15
... maid , Cynthus and Hybla yield to Windsor shade . STREPHON . All nature mourns , the skies relent in showers , Hufh'd are the birds , and clos'd the drooping flowers ; If Delia fmile , the flowers begin to fpring , The kies to brighten ...
... maid , Cynthus and Hybla yield to Windsor shade . STREPHON . All nature mourns , the skies relent in showers , Hufh'd are the birds , and clos'd the drooping flowers ; If Delia fmile , the flowers begin to fpring , The kies to brighten ...
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... maid Beyond the foreft's verdant limits stray'd , Pan faw and lov'd , and burning with defire Purfu'd her flight ; her flight increas'd'his fire . Not half fo fwift the trembling doves can fly , When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid ...
... maid Beyond the foreft's verdant limits stray'd , Pan faw and lov'd , and burning with defire Purfu'd her flight ; her flight increas'd'his fire . Not half fo fwift the trembling doves can fly , When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid ...
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... maid but must a victim fall To one man's treat , but for another's ball ? When Florio speaks , what virgin could withstand , If gentle Damon did not fquecze her hand ? With varying vanities , from every part , They shift the moving toy ...
... maid but must a victim fall To one man's treat , but for another's ball ? When Florio speaks , what virgin could withstand , If gentle Damon did not fquecze her hand ? With varying vanities , from every part , They shift the moving toy ...
Página 47
... maid : the fpread her hands , and cry'd , ( While Hampton's echoes , wretched maid ! re- ply'd ) 110 Was it for this you took fuch conftant care The bodkin , comb , and effence , to prepare ? For this your locks in paper durance bound ...
... maid : the fpread her hands , and cry'd , ( While Hampton's echoes , wretched maid ! re- ply'd ) 110 Was it for this you took fuch conftant care The bodkin , comb , and effence , to prepare ? For this your locks in paper durance bound ...
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... maid ; What then remains , but well our power to use , And keep good humour still , whate'er we lose ? 30 And trust me , dear ! good - humour can prevail , When airs , and flights , and screams , and scolding fail , Beauties in vain ...
... maid ; What then remains , but well our power to use , And keep good humour still , whate'er we lose ? 30 And trust me , dear ! good - humour can prevail , When airs , and flights , and screams , and scolding fail , Beauties in vain ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 92 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 23 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Página 92 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Página 89 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 89 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Página 13 - Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Página 35 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 161 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...
Página 102 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!