The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 16Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... best She cull'd , and then with handy care fhe drefs'd . High o'er the hearth a chine of bacon hung ; Good old Philemon feiz'd it with a prong , And from the footy rafter drew it down , Then cut a flice , but fcarce enough for one : Yet ...
... best She cull'd , and then with handy care fhe drefs'd . High o'er the hearth a chine of bacon hung ; Good old Philemon feiz'd it with a prong , And from the footy rafter drew it down , Then cut a flice , but fcarce enough for one : Yet ...
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... best the cottage could afford . This was the table's ornament and pride , With figures wrought : like pages at his fide Stood beechen bowls ; and these were shining clean , Varnish'd with wax without , and lin'd within . By this the ...
... best the cottage could afford . This was the table's ornament and pride , With figures wrought : like pages at his fide Stood beechen bowls ; and these were shining clean , Varnish'd with wax without , and lin'd within . By this the ...
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... best . Then from the floor he rais'd a royal bed , With coverings of Sidonian purple spread : The folemn rites perform'd , he calls her bride , With blandifhments invites her to his fide , And as he were with vital fenfe poffefs'd , Her ...
... best . Then from the floor he rais'd a royal bed , With coverings of Sidonian purple spread : The folemn rites perform'd , he calls her bride , With blandifhments invites her to his fide , And as he were with vital fenfe poffefs'd , Her ...
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... best ! of mind , repairer of decay , O peace Whose balms renew the limbs to labours of the day , Care fhuns thy foft approach , and fullen flies away ! Adorn a dream , expreffing human form , The shape of him who suffer'd in the storm ...
... best ! of mind , repairer of decay , O peace Whose balms renew the limbs to labours of the day , Care fhuns thy foft approach , and fullen flies away ! Adorn a dream , expreffing human form , The shape of him who suffer'd in the storm ...
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... best ; And let me ftand excluded from my right , Robb'd.of my kinfman's arms , who first appear'd in fight . Better for us , at home he had remain'd , Had it been true the madness which he feign'd , Or fo believ'd ; the lefs had been ...
... best ; And let me ftand excluded from my right , Robb'd.of my kinfman's arms , who first appear'd in fight . Better for us , at home he had remain'd , Had it been true the madness which he feign'd , Or fo believ'd ; the lefs had been ...
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Página 301 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Página 301 - And always in extreme. Now with a noiseless gentle course It keeps within the middle bed.; . Anon it lifts aloft the head, And bears down all before it with impetuous force : And trunks of trees come rolling down...
Página 252 - I have already hinted a word or two concerning it ; that is, the maintaining the character of an author, which distinguishes him from all others, and makes him appear that individual poet whom you would interpret.
Página 301 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Página 77 - Immortal offspring of my brother Jove ; My brightest nephew, and whom best I love, Whose hands were join'd with mine, to raise the...
Página 55 - I can fpare, As only decorations of the war : So Mars is arm'd for glory, not for need. 'Tis fomewhat more from Neptune to proceed,.
Página 297 - Let him alone, with what he made, To toss and turn the world below; At his...
Página 133 - em twinkling up in air. Take not away the life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to live. Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have: But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Página 162 - O you pow'rs above, How rude I am in all the arts of love! My hand is yet untaught to write to men: This is th...
Página 305 - His children and his family, And order all things till he come, Sweaty and...