The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 10Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Ungentle fhepherd ! ceafe , for fhame , Which way can you pretend To merit fo divine a flame , Who to dull life make a mean claim , When love is at an end ? As As trees are by their bark embrac❜d , Love to 286 ROCHESTER'S POEMS .
... Ungentle fhepherd ! ceafe , for fhame , Which way can you pretend To merit fo divine a flame , Who to dull life make a mean claim , When love is at an end ? As As trees are by their bark embrac❜d , Love to 286 ROCHESTER'S POEMS .
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... dull , You had gone mad like me . VI . Nor cenfure us , you who perceive My best - belov'd and me , Sigh and lament , complain and grieve , You think we disagree . VII . Alas ! ' tis facred jealousy , Love rais'd to an extreme ; The ...
... dull , You had gone mad like me . VI . Nor cenfure us , you who perceive My best - belov'd and me , Sigh and lament , complain and grieve , You think we disagree . VII . Alas ! ' tis facred jealousy , Love rais'd to an extreme ; The ...
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... dull fhore , Broke of that little ftock they had before ! How would a woman's tottering barque be toft , Where ftoutest ships ( the men of wit ) are lost ! When I reflect on this , I ftraight grow wife , And my own felf I gravely thus ...
... dull fhore , Broke of that little ftock they had before ! How would a woman's tottering barque be toft , Where ftoutest ships ( the men of wit ) are lost ! When I reflect on this , I ftraight grow wife , And my own felf I gravely thus ...
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... dull and ftupid prove , But felt a God , and blefs'd his power , in love : This only joy , for which poor we are made , Is grown , like play , to be an arrant trade : The rooks creep in , and it has got of late As many little cheats and ...
... dull and ftupid prove , But felt a God , and blefs'd his power , in love : This only joy , for which poor we are made , Is grown , like play , to be an arrant trade : The rooks creep in , and it has got of late As many little cheats and ...
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... dull fight Muft fly , when Reafon brings the glaring light . But the kind easy fool , apt to admire Himself , trufts us ; his follies all confpire To flatter his , and favour our defire : Vain of his proper merit , he with ease Believes ...
... dull fight Muft fly , when Reafon brings the glaring light . But the kind easy fool , apt to admire Himself , trufts us ; his follies all confpire To flatter his , and favour our defire : Vain of his proper merit , he with ease Believes ...
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Página 249 - Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. The time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine? The present moment's all my lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine. Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I by miracle can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heaven allows.
Página 258 - Likes me abundantly ; but you take care Upon this point, not to be too severe. Perhaps my muse were fitter for this part, For I profess I can be very smart On wit, which I abhor with all my heart. I long to lash it in some sharp essay, But your grand indiscretion bids me stay And turns my tide of ink another way.
Página 217 - Comment that your Care can find, Some here, some there, may hit the Poet's Mind; Yet be not blindly guided by the Throng; The Multitude is always in the Wrong.
Página 263 - Prest by Necessity, They kill for Food; Man undoes Man, to do himself no good. With Teeth and Claws by Nature arm'd, They hunt Nature's Allowance, to supply their Want: But Man...
Página 215 - Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense.
Página 253 - Courted, admir'd, and lov'd, with Presents fed ; Youth in her Looks, and Pleasure in her Bed : Till Fate, or her ill Angel, thought it fit To make her doat upon a man of Wit : Who found 'twas dull to love above a day ; Made his ill-natur'd jeast, and went away.
Página 222 - Through every swelling vein a loud retreat: So when a Muse propitiously invites, Improve her favours, and indulge her flights; But when you find that vigorous heat abate, Leave off, and for another summons wait.
Página 261 - I'll fire his Blood, by telling what I did When I was strong, and able to bear Arms.