The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 10H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... night . But Plautus was admir'd in former time With too much patience ( not to call it worse ) : His harsh , unequal verfe was music then , And rudeness had the privilege of wit . When Thefpis firft expos'd the Tragic Mufe , Rude were ...
... night . But Plautus was admir'd in former time With too much patience ( not to call it worse ) : His harsh , unequal verfe was music then , And rudeness had the privilege of wit . When Thefpis firft expos'd the Tragic Mufe , Rude were ...
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... night to mourn . II . Dear , from thine arms then let me fly , That my fantastic mind may prove The torments it deferves to try , That tears my fix'd heart from my love . III . When wearied with a world of woe To thy fafe bofom I retire ...
... night to mourn . II . Dear , from thine arms then let me fly , That my fantastic mind may prove The torments it deferves to try , That tears my fix'd heart from my love . III . When wearied with a world of woe To thy fafe bofom I retire ...
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... night . IV . Then if , to make your ruin more , You'll peevishly be coy , Die with the scandal of a whore , And never know the joy . то CORINNA . A SONG . I. WH HAT cruel pains Corinna takes , To force that harmlefs frown ; When not one ...
... night . IV . Then if , to make your ruin more , You'll peevishly be coy , Die with the scandal of a whore , And never know the joy . то CORINNA . A SONG . I. WH HAT cruel pains Corinna takes , To force that harmlefs frown ; When not one ...
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... night , Comes a fine lady , with her humble knight , Who had prevail'd with her , through her own skill , At his request , though much against his will , To come to London ------ As the coach ftopt , I heard her voice , more loud Than a ...
... night , Comes a fine lady , with her humble knight , Who had prevail'd with her , through her own skill , At his request , though much against his will , To come to London ------ As the coach ftopt , I heard her voice , more loud Than a ...
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... night , Bold in the dusk , before a fool's dull fight Muft fly , when Reason brings the glaring light . But the kind eafy fool , apt to admire Himself , trufts us ; his follies all confpire To flatter his , and favour our defire : Vain ...
... night , Bold in the dusk , before a fool's dull fight Muft fly , when Reason brings the glaring light . But the kind eafy fool , apt to admire Himself , trufts us ; his follies all confpire To flatter his , and favour our defire : Vain ...
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Pasajes populares
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.