The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volumen 401807 |
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... Printed for Cadell and Davies ; Longman , Hurst , Rees and Orme ; Nichols and Son ; J. Walker ; Wilkie and Robinson ; W. J. and J. Richardson ; F. C. and J. Rivington ; Lackington , Allen , and Co .; R. H. Evans ; Cuthell and Martin ...
... Printed for Cadell and Davies ; Longman , Hurst , Rees and Orme ; Nichols and Son ; J. Walker ; Wilkie and Robinson ; W. J. and J. Richardson ; F. C. and J. Rivington ; Lackington , Allen , and Co .; R. H. Evans ; Cuthell and Martin ...
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... printed , those Du Sueil has bound ! Lo , some are vellum , and the rest as good , For all his Lordship knows , but they are wood ! For Locke or Milton ' tis in vain to look ; These shelves admit not any modern book . And now the ...
... printed , those Du Sueil has bound ! Lo , some are vellum , and the rest as good , For all his Lordship knows , but they are wood ! For Locke or Milton ' tis in vain to look ; These shelves admit not any modern book . And now the ...
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... printing what I write . 150 But let the fit pass o'er ; I'm wise enough To stop my ears to their confounded stuff . In vain bad rhymers all mankind reject : 156 They treat themselves with most profound respect . ' Tis to small purpose ...
... printing what I write . 150 But let the fit pass o'er ; I'm wise enough To stop my ears to their confounded stuff . In vain bad rhymers all mankind reject : 156 They treat themselves with most profound respect . ' Tis to small purpose ...
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... images reflect from art to art ! This Epistle , and the two following , were written some years before the rest , and originally printed in 1717 . VOL . III . Z How oft review , each finding , like a friend [ 269 ] Mr Jervas.
... images reflect from art to art ! This Epistle , and the two following , were written some years before the rest , and originally printed in 1717 . VOL . III . Z How oft review , each finding , like a friend [ 269 ] Mr Jervas.
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... printed anonymously in Steele's col lection , and copied in the Miscellanies of Swift and Pope , is ascribed to Pope by Sir John Hawkins , in his history of music.- Mrs. Toft , who was the daughter of a person in the family of Bishop ...
... printed anonymously in Steele's col lection , and copied in the Miscellanies of Swift and Pope , is ascribed to Pope by Sir John Hawkins , in his history of music.- Mrs. Toft , who was the daughter of a person in the family of Bishop ...
Términos y frases comunes
Author bard Bavius beauty Behold bless'd Boileau charms Cibber court Criticism dæmon dear Dennis divine Dryden dull Dulness Dunciad EPISTLE Eridanus Essay Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate flame folly fool Francis Atterbury genius gentle Gildon Goddess grace hath hear heart Heav'n hero Homer honor Horace Iliad IMITATIONS kings knave laws learned Leonard Welsted Letter LEWIS THEOBALD live Lord lov'd Matthew Concanen MIST'S JOURNAL moral Muse ne'er never numbers o'er octavo once Ovid person pleas'd Poem poet poet's poor Pope pow'r praise pride printed proud Queen rage REMARKS rhymes rise sacred saith Sappho satire shade shew shine sing SMIL soft soul Swift tell thee thine things thou thought Town truth Twas verse Virg Virgil virtue Whig wife words wretched writ write youth
Pasajes populares
Página 132 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Página 132 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Página 131 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Página 136 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Página 126 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 36 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
Página 125 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Página 129 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Página 170 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.