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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... poem . The rest , together with others of the like fort , from his ma nufcript copy of the other Ethic Epiftles , are here inferted at the bottom of the page , under the title of Variations . The fourth volume contains the Satires ...
... poem . The rest , together with others of the like fort , from his ma nufcript copy of the other Ethic Epiftles , are here inferted at the bottom of the page , under the title of Variations . The fourth volume contains the Satires ...
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... poem . and vice verfa a whole poem for the fake of fome particular lines . I believe , no one qualifi- cation is fo likely to make a good writer , as the power of rejecting his own thoughts , and it must be this ( if any thing ) that ...
... poem . and vice verfa a whole poem for the fake of fome particular lines . I believe , no one qualifi- cation is fo likely to make a good writer , as the power of rejecting his own thoughts , and it must be this ( if any thing ) that ...
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... Poem ; and it is my defign to comprise in this fhort paper the fub- stance of thofe numerous differtations the Critics have made on the fubject , without omitting any of their rules in my own favour . You will alfo find fome points ...
... Poem ; and it is my defign to comprise in this fhort paper the fub- stance of thofe numerous differtations the Critics have made on the fubject , without omitting any of their rules in my own favour . You will alfo find fome points ...
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... poets of his country . But as his piece feems to have been the original of a new fort of poem , the paftoral comedy , in Italy , it can- not fo well be confidered as a copy of the ancients . Spenfer's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion ...
... poets of his country . But as his piece feems to have been the original of a new fort of poem , the paftoral comedy , in Italy , it can- not fo well be confidered as a copy of the ancients . Spenfer's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion ...
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... poets when they please . As without learning they can take degrees . 591 Leave dangerous truths to unfuccefsful fatires , And flattery to fulfome dedicators , Whom , when they praife , the world believes no more 599 Than when they ...
... poets when they please . As without learning they can take degrees . 591 Leave dangerous truths to unfuccefsful fatires , And flattery to fulfome dedicators , Whom , when they praife , the world believes no more 599 Than when they ...
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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!