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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... bear , " Cry'd Dapperwit , and funk beside his chair . A mournful glance Sir Fopling upwards caft , " Those eyes are made fo killing " -was his last . Thus on Mæander's flowery margin lies Th ' expiring fwan , and as he fings he dies ...
... bear , " Cry'd Dapperwit , and funk beside his chair . A mournful glance Sir Fopling upwards caft , " Those eyes are made fo killing " -was his last . Thus on Mæander's flowery margin lies Th ' expiring fwan , and as he fings he dies ...
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... bear too tender , or too firm a heart , To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reverfion in the fky , For those who greatly think , or bravely die ? Why bade ye elfe , ye Powers ! her foul aspire Above the vulgar flight ...
... bear too tender , or too firm a heart , To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reverfion in the fky , For those who greatly think , or bravely die ? Why bade ye elfe , ye Powers ! her foul aspire Above the vulgar flight ...
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... bear ; She took the wards in wax before the fire , And gave th ' impreffion to the trusty Squire . By means of this , fome wonder fhall appear , Which , in due place and season , you may hear . Well fung fweet Ovid , in the days of yore ...
... bear ; She took the wards in wax before the fire , And gave th ' impreffion to the trusty Squire . By means of this , fome wonder fhall appear , Which , in due place and season , you may hear . Well fung fweet Ovid , in the days of yore ...
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... bear , No impious wretch fhall ' scape unpunish'd long , That in my presence offers fuch a wrong . I will this inftant undeceive the knight , And in the very act restore his fight ; And let the ftrumpet here in open view , A warning to ...
... bear , No impious wretch fhall ' scape unpunish'd long , That in my presence offers fuch a wrong . I will this inftant undeceive the knight , And in the very act restore his fight ; And let the ftrumpet here in open view , A warning to ...
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... bear : Of towns difpeopled , and the wandering ghosts Of kings unbury'd in the wafted coats ; When Dirce's fountain blufh'd with Grecian blood , And Thetis , near Ifmenos ' fwelling flood , With dread beheld the rolling furges ( weep ...
... bear : Of towns difpeopled , and the wandering ghosts Of kings unbury'd in the wafted coats ; When Dirce's fountain blufh'd with Grecian blood , And Thetis , near Ifmenos ' fwelling flood , With dread beheld the rolling furges ( weep ...
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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!