The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volumen341790 |
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... must obey the general doom , Down from Alcides to Tom Thumb . Grim Pluto will not be withstood By force or craft . Tall Robinhood , As well as Little John , is dead ( You fee how deeply I am read ) : With Fate's lean tipstaff none can ...
... must obey the general doom , Down from Alcides to Tom Thumb . Grim Pluto will not be withstood By force or craft . Tall Robinhood , As well as Little John , is dead ( You fee how deeply I am read ) : With Fate's lean tipstaff none can ...
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... must die , And ne'er again from Lethe's ftreams Return to Adige , or to Thames . T. I therefore weep Columbo dead , My hopes bereav'd , my pleafures fled ; " I therefore muft for ever moan 46 ; My dear Columbo , dead and gone . " S ...
... must die , And ne'er again from Lethe's ftreams Return to Adige , or to Thames . T. I therefore weep Columbo dead , My hopes bereav'd , my pleafures fled ; " I therefore muft for ever moan 46 ; My dear Columbo , dead and gone . " S ...
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... must deplore 19 " Columbo dead and gone . " - S . Encore ! For fhame ! forfake this Bion - ftyle , We'll talk an hour , and walk a mile . Does it with sense or health agree , To fit thus moping on a tree ? 180 185 To To throw away a ...
... must deplore 19 " Columbo dead and gone . " - S . Encore ! For fhame ! forfake this Bion - ftyle , We'll talk an hour , and walk a mile . Does it with sense or health agree , To fit thus moping on a tree ? 180 185 To To throw away a ...
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... Must I not live , becaufe fhe dy'd ? 250 And thus I logically faid ( ' Tis good to have a reasoning head ! ) Is this my wife ? Probatur not ; For death diffolv'd the marriage - knot : She was , concedo , during life ; But , is a piece ...
... Must I not live , becaufe fhe dy'd ? 250 And thus I logically faid ( ' Tis good to have a reasoning head ! ) Is this my wife ? Probatur not ; For death diffolv'd the marriage - knot : She was , concedo , during life ; But , is a piece ...
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... must have pok'd into Latin and Greek ; Those who love their own tongue , we have reason to hope , Have read them tranflated by Dryden and Pope . But I fing of exploits that have lately been done By two British heroes , call'd Matthew ...
... must have pok'd into Latin and Greek ; Those who love their own tongue , we have reason to hope , Have read them tranflated by Dryden and Pope . But I fing of exploits that have lately been done By two British heroes , call'd Matthew ...
Términos y frases comunes
againſt Amyntas arms beſt bleft blifs breaſt cauſe charms Columbo DAPHNE dead dear defire delight deſpair eaſe Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate fave fear feem FESCH fhade fhall fhew fhine fhould fighs fight fince fing firft firſt foft fome fong foon forrows ftill fuch fure fwain fweet goddeſs grief Grimalkin heart heaven himſelf HINCHINBROKE honours houſe huſband Jove lady laft laſt leaſt lefs light loft lov'd lover lyre maid MARGARET CAVENDISH moft moſt mourn Mufe muft Muſe muſt myſelf ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er paffion Phillis Pindar pleaſe pleaſure praiſe prefent Priam profe purſue raiſe reft ſhall ſhe ſhow ſkies ſkill ſome ſpeak ſpread ſpring ſtate ſtill ſweet tears tell thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand truth Twas verſe weep whofe Whoſe wife youth
Pasajes populares
Página 19 - Asia and Europe did roam, Ulysses by name, who ne'er cried to go home, But rather desir'd to see cities and men, Than return to his farms, and converse with old Pen. Hang Homer and Virgil! their meaning to seek...
Página 228 - I fo held by thee. Murmur thy plaints, and gently wound" my ears? Sigh on my lip, and let me drink thy tears ; Join to my cheek thy cold and dewy face, And let pale grief to glowing love give place.
Página 32 - William's care, Begat another tedious war. Matthew, who knew the whole intrigue, Ne'er much approv'd that mystic league; In the vile Utrecht treaty too, Poor man! he found enough to do.
Página 25 - tis a barn. A barn ! why you rave: 'tis a house for a squire, A justice of peace, or a knight of our shire. A house should be built, or with brick, or with stone. Why 'tis plaster and lath; and I think that's all one; And such as it is, it has stood with great fame, Been called a hall, and has given its name To Down, down, hey deny down.
Página 21 - And the hostler that sung about eight years ago ? And where is your sister, so mild and so dear, Whose voice to her maids like a trumpet was clear ?'
Página 172 - Such idle themes no more can move, Nor any thing but what's of high import : And what's of high import, but love £ Vervain and gums, and the green turf prepare ; With wine of two years old your cups be fill'd : After our facrifice and prayer, The goddefs may incline her heart to yield.
Página 195 - The defign of this Satire is to expofe and reprehend all manner of intemperance and debauchery ; but more particularly that exorbitant luxury ufed by the Romans in their feafting. The Poet draws the...
Página 197 - Lurking in fhambles ; where with borrow'd coin They buy choice meats, and in cheap plenty dine ; Such, whofe fole blifs is eating ; who can give But that one brutal reafon why they live. And yet what's more ridiculous ; of thefe The pooreft wretch is...
Página 5 - She ne'er shall hear my second vow: The loves, that round their mother flew, Did in her face her sorrows view; Their drooping wings they...
Página 236 - Has high extoll'd thee, in his deathlefs Lays; Ev'n Dryden has immortaliz'd thy Name ; Let that alone fuffice thee, think That, Fame. Unfit I follow, where he led the Way, And court Applaufe, by what I feem to pay.