The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 10H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fmiles in the tempting glass , Your pulse advises , and begins to beat . Through every fwelling vein a loud retreat : So when a Mufe propitiously invites , Improve her favours , and indulge her flights ; Bup But when you find that ...
... fmiles in the tempting glass , Your pulse advises , and begins to beat . Through every fwelling vein a loud retreat : So when a Mufe propitiously invites , Improve her favours , and indulge her flights ; Bup But when you find that ...
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... fmiles , as many antic bows , As if ' t had been the lady of the house , The dirty chattering monster she embrac'd , And made it this fine tender speech at last : Kifs Kifs me , thou curious miniature of man ; How 310 ROCHESTER'S POEMS .
... fmiles , as many antic bows , As if ' t had been the lady of the house , The dirty chattering monster she embrac'd , And made it this fine tender speech at last : Kifs Kifs me , thou curious miniature of man ; How 310 ROCHESTER'S POEMS .
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... fmiles , embraces , friendships , praise , Inhumanly his fellow's life betrays ; With voluntary pains works his distress ; Not through neceffity , but wantonnefs . For hunger or for love , they bite or tear , Whilft wretched man is ...
... fmiles , embraces , friendships , praise , Inhumanly his fellow's life betrays ; With voluntary pains works his distress ; Not through neceffity , but wantonnefs . For hunger or for love , they bite or tear , Whilft wretched man is ...
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... doft around thy luftre spread ; Around the universe dispense New life to all , and quickening influence . A a With With gloomy fmiles thy rival Night Beholds thy glorious dawn YALDEN'S POEM S. 353 Hymn to the Morning, in Praise of Light.
... doft around thy luftre spread ; Around the universe dispense New life to all , and quickening influence . A a With With gloomy fmiles thy rival Night Beholds thy glorious dawn YALDEN'S POEM S. 353 Hymn to the Morning, in Praise of Light.
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. With gloomy fmiles thy rival Night Beholds thy glorious dawn of light : Not all the wealth fhe views in mines below Can match thy brighter beams , or equal luftre fhow . IV . At ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. With gloomy fmiles thy rival Night Beholds thy glorious dawn of light : Not all the wealth fhe views in mines below Can match thy brighter beams , or equal luftre fhow . IV . At ...
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againſt arms beauty beſt beſtow betray'd bleffings bleft boaſt breaſt bright charms defire delight deſpair doft eaſe ev'n eyes facred fafe fair falfe fam'd fame fate fatire favage fcorn fear feas feem fenfe fhades fhall fighs fight fince fing firft firſt flame flave fmiles foft fome fong fool foon foul fpread fpring ftill ftreams fubject fuch grace happy heart heaven himſelf honour infpire inftructed injur'd joys juft juſt labour laft laſt lefs light loft luftre maid mind moſt mourn Mufe muft Muſe muſt ne'er nobler numbers nymph o'er paffion pains Peleus pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure poets praiſe profe purſues rage rais'd raiſe reafon reſt rife Scythian ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow ſkill ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtore tears thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought uſe verfe verſe Whilft Whofe Whoſe wife wiſhes womb wretched youth
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Página 251 - Let not those agonies be vain. Thou whom avenging powers obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting day.
Página 296 - 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.
Página 337 - ... deny'd ? And may not I have leave impartially To search and censure Dryden's works, and try If those gross faults his choice pen doth commit Proceed from want of judgment, or of wit ? Or if his lumpish fancy does refuse Spirit and grace to his loose slattern Muse ? Five hundred verses every morning writ, Prove him no more a poet than a wit...
Página 219 - 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 318 - ... 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.
Página 336 - Dryden in vain tried this nice way of wit; For he, to be a tearing blade, thought fit To give the ladies a dry bawdy bob ; And thus he got the name of Poet Squab. But to be just, 'twill to his praise be found, His excellencies more than faults abound ; Nor dare I from his sacred temples tear The laurel, which he best deserves to wear.
Página 317 - Then old Age, and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him understand, After a search so painful, and so long, That all his Life he has been in the wrong.
Página 294 - That tears my fixed heart from my love. When, wearied with a world of woe, To thy safe bosom I retire Where love and peace and truth does flow, May I contented there expire, Lest, once more wandering from that Heaven, I fall on some base heart unblest, Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven, And lose my everlasting rest.
Página 326 - Ere time and place were, time and place were not, When primitive Nothing something straight begot, Then all proceeded from the great united — What.
Página 215 - Tis true, composing is the nobler part, But good translation is no easy art : For tho' materials have long since been found, Yet both your fancy, and your hands are bound , And by improving what was writ before, Invention labours less, but judgment more.