Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1784 - English poetry |
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... late measures of the court , and plead the cause of freedom and the people . On the 22d April 1640 , in a moft animated fpeech , fortu- nately preferved , he gives us fome notions of his ge- neral principles in government . He proposed ...
... late measures of the court , and plead the cause of freedom and the people . On the 22d April 1640 , in a moft animated fpeech , fortu- nately preferved , he gives us fome notions of his ge- neral principles in government . He proposed ...
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... late Hifloriographer - royal . ON THE WEST END . Edmundi Waller hic jacet id quantum Morti ceffit ; qui inter poetas fui Temporis facilè princeps , lauream , quam Meruit adolefcens , octogenarius haud Abdicavit Huic debet patria lingua ...
... late Hifloriographer - royal . ON THE WEST END . Edmundi Waller hic jacet id quantum Morti ceffit ; qui inter poetas fui Temporis facilè princeps , lauream , quam Meruit adolefcens , octogenarius haud Abdicavit Huic debet patria lingua ...
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... late to recall that which had fo long been made publick , fo might it find excufe from his youth , the feafon it was produced in : and for what had been done fince , and now added , if it commend not his poetry , it might his philofophy ...
... late to recall that which had fo long been made publick , fo might it find excufe from his youth , the feafon it was produced in : and for what had been done fince , and now added , if it commend not his poetry , it might his philofophy ...
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... late , ( making good that of Horace , -Meliora dies , ut vina , poemata reddit . Lib . ii ep . I. " fome verfes being , like fome wines , recommended " to our taste by time and age " ) we have adventured npon this new and well ...
... late , ( making good that of Horace , -Meliora dies , ut vina , poemata reddit . Lib . ii ep . I. " fome verfes being , like fome wines , recommended " to our taste by time and age " ) we have adventured npon this new and well ...
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... late begins those shafts to fhun , ' Which Phoebus thro ' his veins has shot : Too late he would the pain affuage , And to thick fhadows does retire ; About with him he bears the rage , 20 12 And in his tainted blood the fire . 16 But ...
... late begins those shafts to fhun , ' Which Phoebus thro ' his veins has shot : Too late he would the pain affuage , And to thick fhadows does retire ; About with him he bears the rage , 20 12 And in his tainted blood the fire . 16 But ...
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againſt beauty beſt blood boaſt bold brave breaſt bright cauſe cife court defign defire Earl EDMUND WALLER Engliſh ev'ry Exeter Exchange eyes facred fair falutes fame fate fays feems feen fenfe fhall fhining fhips fide fight fince fing firſt flain flame fleep foes fome foon foul ftill fuch fweet grace Heav'n herſelf himſelf Houſes iſland itſelf Jove King Lady laft laſt lefs leſs Lord Lucretius Maid's Tragedy meaſure mind moſt Mufe Muſe muſt noble numbers nymph o'er occafion paffion peace perfon Phoebus plac'd pleaſe pleaſure poem poet pow'r praiſe prefent Prince Queen rage raiſe reaſon reft rife royal ſea ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow ſpoil ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſuch ſweet taſte tempeft thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro uſe verfe verſes vex'd Waller whofe whoſe wind youth
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Page 99 - A narrow compafs! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the reft the fun goes round. XXX. THE FALL.
Page 35 - virtues which in parents fhine 15 Make not like progrefs thro' the line. *Tis not from whom, but where we live: The place does oft' thofe graces give. Great Julius, on the mountains bred, A flock perhaps, or herd had led.
Page xliii - old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand their true meaning and value. Such advances may a great genius make when it undertakes any thing in earneft. Some painters will hit the chief lines and mafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that thro' all the differences of age the
Page xliii - out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifh poet, and overflows whatever
Page 41 - And, without planting, drink of ev'ry vine. To dig for wealth we weary not our limbs; Gold, tho' the heavieft metal, hither fwims. Ours is the harveft where the Indians mow ; We plough the deep, and reap what others
Page 45 - Brutus thought to break their yoke, But cut the bond of union with that ftroke. That fun once fet, a thoufand meaner ftars Gave a dim light to violence and wars; To fuch a tempeft as now threatens all,
Page 133 - there as much as ever diftempered with the fame fatal affection for play, which engaged him in one adventure that well deferves to be related. As he returned to his lodgings from a gaming-table he was attacked in the dark by three ruffians, who were employed to
Page xxxiii - and in jeft, and therefore very grateful to all kind " of company, where he was not the lefs efteemed *' for being very rich. He had been even nurfed in *' parliaments, where he fat when he was very young,
Page 85 - Ah, cruel Nymph! from whom her humble fwain Flies for relief unto the raging main, And from the winds and tempefts does expect A milder fate than from her cold neglect! Yet there he '11 pray that the unkind may prove