The Works of the British Poets, Volumen8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh., 1795 - 1157 páginas |
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... Firft gives the palm fhe fir'd him to obtain , Crowns his gay brow , and fhews him how to reign . Thus young Alcides , by old Chiron taught , Was form'd for all the miracles he wrought : Thus Chiron did the youth he taught applaud ...
... Firft gives the palm fhe fir'd him to obtain , Crowns his gay brow , and fhews him how to reign . Thus young Alcides , by old Chiron taught , Was form'd for all the miracles he wrought : Thus Chiron did the youth he taught applaud ...
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... firft difcover it any other way , than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken . The only method he has is to make the experiment by writing , and appealing to the judgment of others ...
... firft difcover it any other way , than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken . The only method he has is to make the experiment by writing , and appealing to the judgment of others ...
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... firft productions were the children of self - love upon innocence . I had made an Epic Poem , and Panegyrics on all the princes in Europe , and thought myself the greateft genius that ever was . I cannot but regret thofe delightful ...
... firft productions were the children of self - love upon innocence . I had made an Epic Poem , and Panegyrics on all the princes in Europe , and thought myself the greateft genius that ever was . I cannot but regret thofe delightful ...
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... firft employment of mankind , the most ancient fort of Poetry was probably Paftoral † . It is na- tural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient fhepherds admitting and inviting fome diver- fion , none was fo proper to that ...
... firft employment of mankind , the most ancient fort of Poetry was probably Paftoral † . It is na- tural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient fhepherds admitting and inviting fome diver- fion , none was fo proper to that ...
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... firft paftoral is a remarkable inftance . In the manners he seems a little defective ; for his swains are fometimes abusive and immodest , and perhaps too much inclining to rufticity ; for inftance , in his fourth and fifth Idyllia ...
... firft paftoral is a remarkable inftance . In the manners he seems a little defective ; for his swains are fometimes abusive and immodest , and perhaps too much inclining to rufticity ; for inftance , in his fourth and fifth Idyllia ...
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Página 100 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heav'n and earth, and mortal and divine; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man.
Página 43 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide ; If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Página 99 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 151 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry: Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Página 102 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 43 - Repairs her smiles, awakens ev'ry grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care...
Página 94 - Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!
Página 121 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Página 98 - Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace. Condition, circumstance is not the thing ; Bliss is the same in subject or in king ; In who obtain defence, or who defend ; In him who is, or him who finds a friend...
Página 112 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!