Faithful Memoirs of the Grubstreet Society. Now First Published by Mr. Bavius, Volumen1benefit of the Grubstreet Society, and sold, 1732 - 179 páginas |
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... Poets have unquestion'd Right to claim , If not the Greatest , the most Lafting Name . CONG . LONDON : Printed for the Benefit of the Grubstreet Society , and fold by the Bookfellers of London and Weftminster . M.DCC.XXXII . ( Price ...
... Poets have unquestion'd Right to claim , If not the Greatest , the most Lafting Name . CONG . LONDON : Printed for the Benefit of the Grubstreet Society , and fold by the Bookfellers of London and Weftminster . M.DCC.XXXII . ( Price ...
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... Poet and Thresher , on his late Preferment by her Majefty . ibid . To Mr. Bavius , Secretary to the Society of Grubfreet . 37 The Order of the Proceffion , in Heroic Verfe , written at the latter End of the English Auguftian Age , by ...
... Poet and Thresher , on his late Preferment by her Majefty . ibid . To Mr. Bavius , Secretary to the Society of Grubfreet . 37 The Order of the Proceffion , in Heroic Verfe , written at the latter End of the English Auguftian Age , by ...
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... poets lays , Due to his merit , and brave thirst of praise : Living , great nature fear'd he might out - vie Her works ; and dying , fears herself , may die . Grubftreet Journal , N ° 18 . H An EPITAPH .. ERE lies JOHN COOM , A bailiff ...
... poets lays , Due to his merit , and brave thirst of praise : Living , great nature fear'd he might out - vie Her works ; and dying , fears herself , may die . Grubftreet Journal , N ° 18 . H An EPITAPH .. ERE lies JOHN COOM , A bailiff ...
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... VERSES by Mr. C ---- L . ROM ferious arts , or glorious arms , You bid me seek the palm of fame ; And fly thofe fweet feducing charms , That tempt me to a poet's name . Advice my friend is but in vain , Whene'er in Advice GRUBIANA . II.
... VERSES by Mr. C ---- L . ROM ferious arts , or glorious arms , You bid me seek the palm of fame ; And fly thofe fweet feducing charms , That tempt me to a poet's name . Advice my friend is but in vain , Whene'er in Advice GRUBIANA . II.
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... poet decks her with each unknown grace , Clears her dull brain , and brightens her dark face . See ! father CHAOS o'er his first born nods , And mother night , in majefty of gods ? See QUERNO's throne , by hands pontific rife And a ...
... poet decks her with each unknown grace , Clears her dull brain , and brightens her dark face . See ! father CHAOS o'er his first born nods , And mother night , in majefty of gods ? See QUERNO's throne , by hands pontific rife And a ...
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Página 171 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Página 143 - Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; Damn with faint praife, aflent with civil leer, • And, without fneering, teach the reft to fneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to ftrike...
Página 142 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 7 - Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herself may die.
Página 43 - Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.
Página 142 - And he, who now to fenfe, now nonfenfe leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whofe Fuftian's fo fublimely bad, It is not Poetry, but Profe run mad...
Página 43 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Página 142 - Shakespeare's name ; Pretty, in Amber to observe the forms Of Hairs, or Straws, or Dirt, or Grubs, or Worms : The Thing, we know, is neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the Devil it got there.
Página 16 - E'er the first ends, the Father and the Son : Or else so needful, and exactly grac'd, That nothing is ill-suited, or ill-plac'd. True Epic's a vast World, and this a small; One has its proper beauties, and one all. Like Cynthia, one in thirty days appears, Like Saturn one, rolls round in thirty years.
Página 143 - A tim'rous foe, and a fufpicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers befieg'd> And fo obliging that he ne'er oblig'd; Who, if two wits on rival themes conteft, Approves of each, but likes the worft the beft...