The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Band 151790 |
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... Muse were fitter for this part ; For , I profefs , I can be very fmart On wit , which I abhor with all my I long to lafh it in fome sharp effay , But heart . your grand indifcretion bids me stay , And turns my tide of ink another way ...
... Muse were fitter for this part ; For , I profefs , I can be very fmart On wit , which I abhor with all my I long to lafh it in fome sharp effay , But heart . your grand indifcretion bids me stay , And turns my tide of ink another way ...
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... Muse ? Five hundred verfes every morning writ , Prove him no more a poet than a wit : Such fcribbling authors have been seen before ; Mustapha , the Ifland Princefs , forty more , Were things perhaps compos'd in half an hour .. To write ...
... Muse ? Five hundred verfes every morning writ , Prove him no more a poet than a wit : Such fcribbling authors have been seen before ; Mustapha , the Ifland Princefs , forty more , Were things perhaps compos'd in half an hour .. To write ...
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... Muse , The profit ' s fmall and you have much to lofe ; For though true wit adorns your birth or place , Degenerate lines degrade th ' attainted race . No No poet any paffion can excite , But what they 88 ROSCOMMON'S POEMS ,
... Muse , The profit ' s fmall and you have much to lofe ; For though true wit adorns your birth or place , Degenerate lines degrade th ' attainted race . No No poet any paffion can excite , But what they 88 ROSCOMMON'S POEMS ,
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... Muse , True to herself , fhall barbarous aid refuse , And in the Roman majesty appear , Which none know better , and none come so near . TO THE EARL OF ROSCOMMON , ON HIS ESSAY ON TRANSLATED VERSE , As BY DR . CHETWOOD , 1684 . S when ...
... Muse , True to herself , fhall barbarous aid refuse , And in the Roman majesty appear , Which none know better , and none come so near . TO THE EARL OF ROSCOMMON , ON HIS ESSAY ON TRANSLATED VERSE , As BY DR . CHETWOOD , 1684 . S when ...
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... Muse the graver's pencil need , To draw the hero on his prancing fteed ; Thy living verse shall paint th ' imbattled hoft In bolder figures than his art can boast . While the low tribe of vulgar writers strive , By mean falfe arts to ...
... Muse the graver's pencil need , To draw the hero on his prancing fteed ; Thy living verse shall paint th ' imbattled hoft In bolder figures than his art can boast . While the low tribe of vulgar writers strive , By mean falfe arts to ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
againſt arms Becauſe beſt bleffings bleft bluſh breaſt cauſe Charles Dryden charms chooſe defign defire e'er eaſe eyes facred fad grave fafe fame fate fatire fcorn fear feem feem'd fenfe fent fhall his praiſe fhew fhore fighs fince fing firft firſt flain fmiles foes fome fong fons fools foon foul ftill fubjects fuch fure good-natur'd grave he lies heart heaven himſelf Hippolytus honour juft juſt king laft laſt laurels leaſt loft Lord lov'd lucky character Lucretius mighty mind moft moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt myſelf ne'er never numbers o'er paffion pains peace pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure poets pride rage raiſe reaſon reft rife riſe ſcene ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſkill ſpeak ſpread ſtate ſtill Telephus thee themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought tranflated Twas twill underſtand uſe verfe verſe whofe whoſe wife wretched write yourſelf
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 123 - Prostrate my contrite heart I rend, My God, my Father, and my Friend, Do not forsake me in my end.
Seite 83 - Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense.
Seite 177 - Twas far from any path, but where the Earth Was bare, and naked all as at her birth, When by the Word it first was made, Ere God had said, Let grass, and herds, and every green thing grow, With fruitful trees after their kind, and it was so.
Seite 82 - By chaste instruction of her tender years. The first impression in her infant breast Will be the deepest, and should be the best Let not austerity breed servile fear, No wanton sound offend her virgin ear.
Seite 178 - My parents not obfcure, nor high in titles were, They left me heir to no difgrace. My father was (a thing now rare) Loyal and brave, my mother chafte and fair : The pledge of marriage-vows was only I ; Alone I liv'd their much-lov'd fondled boy...
Seite 174 - THE ENCHANTMENT I DID but look and love awhile, 'Twas but for one half-hour; Then to resist I had no will, And now I have no power. To sigh and wish is all my ease; Sighs which do heat impart Enough to melt the coldest ice, Yet cannot warm your heart. O would your pity give my heart One corner of your breast, 'Twould learn of yours the winning art, And quickly steal the rest.
Seite 198 - With fpoils of viftory and glory fraught. To him then every heart was open, down From the great man to the clown: In him rejoic'd, to him inclin'd ; And as his health round the glad board did pafs, Each honeft fellow cry'd, Fill full my glafs ; And fhew'd the fullnefs of his mind.
Seite 18 - 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.
Seite 120 - What horror will invade the mind, When the strict Judge, who would be kind...
Seite 46 - 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.