The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 10Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... use your arms before you fight . But fince the prefs , the pulpit , and the stage , Confpire to cenfure and expose our age : Provok'd too far , we refolutely muft , To the few virtues that we have , be juft . * John Sheffield duke of ...
... use your arms before you fight . But fince the prefs , the pulpit , and the stage , Confpire to cenfure and expose our age : Provok'd too far , we refolutely muft , To the few virtues that we have , be juft . * John Sheffield duke of ...
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... use of each extreme , And write with fury , but correct with phlegm . As when the chearful hours too freely pass , And sparkling wine fmiles in the tempting glass , Your pulse advises , and begins to beat Through every fwelling vein a ...
... use of each extreme , And write with fury , but correct with phlegm . As when the chearful hours too freely pass , And sparkling wine fmiles in the tempting glass , Your pulse advises , and begins to beat Through every fwelling vein a ...
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... use of each extreme , And write with fury , but correct with phlegm . As when the chearful hours too freely pass , And sparkling wine fmiles in the tempting glass , Your pulse advises , and begins to beat Through every fwelling vein a ...
... use of each extreme , And write with fury , but correct with phlegm . As when the chearful hours too freely pass , And sparkling wine fmiles in the tempting glass , Your pulse advises , and begins to beat Through every fwelling vein a ...
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... use . Fame is at best but an inconftant good , Vain are the boasted titles of our blood ; We fooneft lose what we most highly prize , And with our youth our short - liv'd beauty dies ; In vain our fields and flocks increase our store ...
... use . Fame is at best but an inconftant good , Vain are the boasted titles of our blood ; We fooneft lose what we most highly prize , And with our youth our short - liv'd beauty dies ; In vain our fields and flocks increase our store ...
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... use , and rebels by despair . My time is past , and yours will foon begin , Keep the first bloffoms from the blaft of fin ; And by the fate of my tmultuous ways , Preferve yourselves , and bring ferener days . The busy , subtle ferpents ...
... use , and rebels by despair . My time is past , and yours will foon begin , Keep the first bloffoms from the blaft of fin ; And by the fate of my tmultuous ways , Preferve yourselves , and bring ferener days . The busy , subtle ferpents ...
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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.