The Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose, Volumen1W. Strahan, 1777 |
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... fome Account of the LIFE and WRITINGS of the AUTHOR , Thomas By Mr. TICKEL L. LONDON : Printed for W. STRAHAN , J. F. and C. RIVINGTON , J. HINTON , L. DAVIS , W. OWEN , T. CASLON , T. LONG- MAN , B , LAW , C. RIVINGTON , J. DODSLEY , J ...
... fome Account of the LIFE and WRITINGS of the AUTHOR , Thomas By Mr. TICKEL L. LONDON : Printed for W. STRAHAN , J. F. and C. RIVINGTON , J. HINTON , L. DAVIS , W. OWEN , T. CASLON , T. LONG- MAN , B , LAW , C. RIVINGTON , J. DODSLEY , J ...
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... fome years , I know well qua- lified to answer my intentions . He has already the honour and happiness of being under your protection ; and , as he will very much ftand in need of it , I can- not with him better , than that he may ...
... fome years , I know well qua- lified to answer my intentions . He has already the honour and happiness of being under your protection ; and , as he will very much ftand in need of it , I can- not with him better , than that he may ...
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... fome paffages in the ancients , which he rescued from the mif - interpretations of his ad- verfary . The true and natural compli- ment made by him , was , that thofe books had given him a very new idea of the English politenefs , and ...
... fome paffages in the ancients , which he rescued from the mif - interpretations of his ad- verfary . The true and natural compli- ment made by him , was , that thofe books had given him a very new idea of the English politenefs , and ...
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... fome other copies of verfes , print- ed in the Mifcellanies , while he was young , the largest is an Account of the greatest English Poets ; in the close of which he infinuates a design he then had of going into holy orders , to which ...
... fome other copies of verfes , print- ed in the Mifcellanies , while he was young , the largest is an Account of the greatest English Poets ; in the close of which he infinuates a design he then had of going into holy orders , to which ...
Página xix
... fome years of a man's life not mis - spent in fo elegant an employ- ment . I shall conclude what I had to fay on this performance , by obferving , that the fame of it increased from year to year , and the demand for copies was fo urgent ...
... fome years of a man's life not mis - spent in fo elegant an employ- ment . I shall conclude what I had to fay on this performance , by obferving , that the fame of it increased from year to year , and the demand for copies was fo urgent ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Æneid Aëre æther arms atque bees bleft blood breaſt bright Cadmus caft confoli corfo cou'd courſe Cyclops deſcription diftant ev'ry eyes fafe faid fame fate fatire fays feas fecond fecret feems feven fhade fhady fhall fhining fhore fhould fide fight fingle fire firft firſt fkies flain flood flow'ry fmiles fome fong fpring ftand ftate ftill ftones ftorms ftrains ftreams ftrength fubject fuch fword Gaul Georgic goddeſs Gulfton heav'n heav'nly Hero himſelf hive Jove labours laft laſt loft maid mighty Mufe Mufic muft Muſe muſt neighb'ring numbers nymph o'er Ovid Pentheus pleaſe pleaſure Poet praiſe rage raiſe reft rife rifu round ſcarce ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhore ſhow Sir Richard Steele ſkies ſky ſmoke ſpeak thee theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro thunder toils tow'ring verfe verſe view'd Virgil virgin Whilft whofe winds woods wou'd youth
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Página xxxvi - Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints who taught, and led the way to Heaven...
Página 51 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Página 45 - That on its public shows unpeopled Rome, And held uncrowded nations in its womb : Here pillars rough with sculpture pierce the skies : And here the proud triumphal arches rise, Where the old Romans deathless acts display'd.
Página 284 - There is more pleasantness in the little platform of a garden, which he gives us about the middle of this book, than in all the spacious walks and water-works of Rapin.
Página xxxv - Oh judge, my bosom by your own. What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart.
Página 222 - Till all the pack came up, and every hound Tore the sad huntsman, grov'ling on the ground, Who now appear'd but one continued wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.
Página 179 - The horses started with a sudden bound, And flung the reins and chariot to the ground : The studded harness from their necks they broke, Here fell a wheel, and here a silver spoke, Here were the beam and axle torn away ; And, scatter'd o'er the earth, the shining fragments lay.
Página 98 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 195 - Coronis and the favour'd youth. The God was wroth; the colour left his look, The wreath his head, the harp his hand forsook...
Página 49 - On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies...