The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 15Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... ry , attic strains , Wrapt into sable calls for airs Rough , rueful , as the rug he wears , Pleasure , for ever on ... ev'ry age Father of tragedy , he reigns Sole monarch o'er theatric plains . Hence with the sock : the queen commands ...
... ry , attic strains , Wrapt into sable calls for airs Rough , rueful , as the rug he wears , Pleasure , for ever on ... ev'ry age Father of tragedy , he reigns Sole monarch o'er theatric plains . Hence with the sock : the queen commands ...
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... ev'ry smirking feature from the face ; Branding our laughter with the name of madness . Where are the jesters now ? the men of health , Complectionally pleasant ? Where's the droll , Whose ev'ry look and gesture was a joke To clapping ...
... ev'ry smirking feature from the face ; Branding our laughter with the name of madness . Where are the jesters now ? the men of health , Complectionally pleasant ? Where's the droll , Whose ev'ry look and gesture was a joke To clapping ...
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... ev'ry thing most perfect in its kind . Blessed ! thrice blessed days ! -But , ah ! how short ! Bless'd as the pleasing dreams of holy men ; But fugitive like those , and quickly gone . Oh ! slipp'ry state of things ! -What sudden What ...
... ev'ry thing most perfect in its kind . Blessed ! thrice blessed days ! -But , ah ! how short ! Bless'd as the pleasing dreams of holy men ; But fugitive like those , and quickly gone . Oh ! slipp'ry state of things ! -What sudden What ...
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... ev'ry day is carnival , not sated yet ! Unheard - of epicure ! without a fellow ! The veriest gluttons do not always cram ; Some intervals of abstinence are sought To edge the appetite : thou seekest none . Methinks the countless swarms ...
... ev'ry day is carnival , not sated yet ! Unheard - of epicure ! without a fellow ! The veriest gluttons do not always cram ; Some intervals of abstinence are sought To edge the appetite : thou seekest none . Methinks the countless swarms ...
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... ev'ry stop , mark ev'ry pause so strong , Their words , like stage processions , stalk alon 5 . All affectation but creates disgust , And e'en in speaking we may seem too just . Nor proper , Thornton , can those sounds appear Which ...
... ev'ry stop , mark ev'ry pause so strong , Their words , like stage processions , stalk alon 5 . All affectation but creates disgust , And e'en in speaking we may seem too just . Nor proper , Thornton , can those sounds appear Which ...
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Ælla Alfwold Aristippus Bacchus bard beauty BIRTHA bless blest bliss bosom Botte breast breath Catcott CELMONDE charms Christ dear death delight divine drest e'er eternal ev'ry eyes fair faith fame fancy fire flame fools fyghte genius give glory grace hand happy head hear heart Heav'n heav'nly holy honour Jupiter king knyghte kynge learned light Lord lyre mind Muse nature Nature's nete never numbers nymph o'er onne Ovid passions plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet pow'r praise pride rage rapture rhyme rise ROBERT DODSLEY round sacred scene sense shine sing smile soft song soul spirit Spleen spryte sweet taste tell Thanne thee theyre thie thine things thou thought thro tongue true truth Twas verse virtue Whilst wond'rous word wyfe wylle wythe ynne youth ytte
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Seite 141 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Seite 141 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Seite 125 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides: Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty...
Seite 536 - Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
Seite 140 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Seite 288 - ... left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Seite 141 - Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Seite 587 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polished pebbles spread...
Seite 624 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Seite 219 - Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.