Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected and Arranged ...J. Roach, 1794 |
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... vice ) . Let Craffus ** ghost and Labienus tell How twice in Parthian plains their legions fell ; Since Rome hath been fojealous of her fame , That few know Pacorus ' or Monæ fes ' name . Words in one language elegantly us'd , Will ...
... vice ) . Let Craffus ** ghost and Labienus tell How twice in Parthian plains their legions fell ; Since Rome hath been fojealous of her fame , That few know Pacorus ' or Monæ fes ' name . Words in one language elegantly us'd , Will ...
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... Vice ; Horace would fay , Sir Billy ferv'd the Crown , Blunt could do bufinefs , H - ggins knew the town ; In Sappho touch the Failings of the Sex , In rev'rend Bifhops note fome fmall neglects ; And own the Spaniard did a waggifh thing ...
... Vice ; Horace would fay , Sir Billy ferv'd the Crown , Blunt could do bufinefs , H - ggins knew the town ; In Sappho touch the Failings of the Sex , In rev'rend Bifhops note fome fmall neglects ; And own the Spaniard did a waggifh thing ...
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... vice and folly to confine the jeft , Sets half the world , God knows , against the reft Did not the fneer of more impartial men At fenfe and virtue balance all again . Judicious wits fpread wide the ridicule , And charitably comfort ...
... vice and folly to confine the jeft , Sets half the world , God knows , against the reft Did not the fneer of more impartial men At fenfe and virtue balance all again . Judicious wits fpread wide the ridicule , And charitably comfort ...
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... Vice be loft . ? Ye Gods ! fhall Cibber's fon , without rebuke ,. Swear like a Lord , or Rich outwhore a Duke ? A fav'rite's porter with his master vie , Be brib'd as often , and as often lye ? Shall Ward draw contracts with a ...
... Vice be loft . ? Ye Gods ! fhall Cibber's fon , without rebuke ,. Swear like a Lord , or Rich outwhore a Duke ? A fav'rite's porter with his master vie , Be brib'd as often , and as often lye ? Shall Ward draw contracts with a ...
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... Vice is undone if the forgets her birth , " And ftoops from angels to the dregs of earth : But ' tis the Fall degrades her to a whore ; Let Greatnefs own her , and she's mean no more ; Her birth , her beauty , crowds and courts confefs ...
... Vice is undone if the forgets her birth , " And ftoops from angels to the dregs of earth : But ' tis the Fall degrades her to a whore ; Let Greatnefs own her , and she's mean no more ; Her birth , her beauty , crowds and courts confefs ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
æther bard beft behold beſt blefs bleft blifs bloom breaft defire eafe eaſe ev'ry facred fafe faid fair fame fate fatire fcene fecret feem feem'd feen fenfe fhade fhall fhine fhould figh filent filver fing firft firſt fkies flain fleep flood flow'rs fmile foft folemn fome fong fons fool foreft forrow foul fpring frike ftill ftrains ftream fuch fure fweet fwelling grace groves heart Heaven himſelf infpire JAMES THOMSON juft labour laft lefs loft lov'd mind moft moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt ne'er night numbers o'er paffion peace Philomelus pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pour'd pow'r praife praiſe pride profe reft rhyme rife ſweet tender Theatre Royal thee thefe theſe thine thofe THOMAS PARNELL thoſe thou thought thouſand thro toil verfe vext virtue whilft whofe Whoſe wife wretch youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 29 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 33 - 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...
Seite 55 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek : Wi...
Seite 22 - 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.
Seite 2 - Though restless still themselves, a lulling murmur made. Joined to the prattle of the purling rills, Were heard the lowing herds along the vale, And flocks loud-bleating from the distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves...
Seite 24 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Seite 59 - An honest man's the noblest work of God;' And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd!
Seite 13 - As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Seite 36 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Seite 26 - 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 Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?