The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Band 151790 |
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... most priz'd , Meanly fawning when defpis'd . Flattering or infulting ever , Generous and grateful never : All his joys are fleeting dreams , All his woes fevere extremes . STREP HON . Nymph , unjustly you inveigh ; Love , like us , muft ...
... most priz'd , Meanly fawning when defpis'd . Flattering or infulting ever , Generous and grateful never : All his joys are fleeting dreams , All his woes fevere extremes . STREP HON . Nymph , unjustly you inveigh ; Love , like us , muft ...
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... most cruel prove , The difference is not hard to make . VI . Confider Real Honour then , You'll find hers cannot be the fame ; ' Tis noble confidence in men , In women mean mistrustful shame . GRECIAN T KINDNESS . A S O N G. I. HE ...
... most cruel prove , The difference is not hard to make . VI . Confider Real Honour then , You'll find hers cannot be the fame ; ' Tis noble confidence in men , In women mean mistrustful shame . GRECIAN T KINDNESS . A S O N G. I. HE ...
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... most generous paffion of the mind , The foftest refuge innocence can find ; The fafe director of unguided youth , Fraught with kind wishes , and fecur'd by truth ; That cordial - drop heaven in our cup has thrown , To make the naufeous ...
... most generous paffion of the mind , The foftest refuge innocence can find ; The fafe director of unguided youth , Fraught with kind wishes , and fecur'd by truth ; That cordial - drop heaven in our cup has thrown , To make the naufeous ...
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... most worn of late ? When I was marry'd , fools were à - la - mode , The men of wit were then held incommode : Slow of belief , and fickle in defire , Who , ere they'll be perfuaded , muft enquire , As if they came to spy , and not t ...
... most worn of late ? When I was marry'd , fools were à - la - mode , The men of wit were then held incommode : Slow of belief , and fickle in defire , Who , ere they'll be perfuaded , muft enquire , As if they came to spy , and not t ...
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... most happy when most made an ass ; Heavy to apprehend , though all mankind Perceive us false , the fop himself is blind ; Who , doating on himfelf- Thinks every one that sees him of his mind . } These are true womens men - Here , forc'd ...
... most happy when most made an ass ; Heavy to apprehend , though all mankind Perceive us false , the fop himself is blind ; Who , doating on himfelf- Thinks every one that sees him of his mind . } These are true womens men - Here , forc'd ...
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.