Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern, Volume 30Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 - Literature |
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Page 11709
... mind of those who benefit by it an affection which it is difficult to efface . There were many statues of Philopomen , and many erections in his honor , voted by the several cities ; and a Roman , at the time of the disaster which ...
... mind of those who benefit by it an affection which it is difficult to efface . There were many statues of Philopomen , and many erections in his honor , voted by the several cities ; and a Roman , at the time of the disaster which ...
Page 11712
... mind when late in life - it was in the year 1737 - he brought out his imitation of the second epistle of the second book of Horace . In these following lines , possessed of special biographic interest , he recalled the disabil- ities ...
... mind when late in life - it was in the year 1737 - he brought out his imitation of the second epistle of the second book of Horace . In these following lines , possessed of special biographic interest , he recalled the disabil- ities ...
Page 11713
... mind ; And me the Muses helped to undergo it : Convict a Papist he , and I a poet . But ( thanks to Homer ) since I live and thrive , Indebted to no prince or peer alive , Sure I should want the care of ten Monroes , If I would scribble ...
... mind ; And me the Muses helped to undergo it : Convict a Papist he , and I a poet . But ( thanks to Homer ) since I live and thrive , Indebted to no prince or peer alive , Sure I should want the care of ten Monroes , If I would scribble ...
Page 11716
... mind , an attack on the whole body of minor authors , with whose venomous but vigorous mediocrity his own sensitiveness had brought him into . conflict . Accordingly in 1728 appeared the ' Dunciad , ' in three books , with Theobald for ...
... mind , an attack on the whole body of minor authors , with whose venomous but vigorous mediocrity his own sensitiveness had brought him into . conflict . Accordingly in 1728 appeared the ' Dunciad , ' in three books , with Theobald for ...
Page 11724
... mind disclose , Quick as her eyes , and as unfixed as those : Favors to none , to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects , but never once offends . Bright as the sun , her eyes the gazers strike , And like the sun , they shine on all ...
... mind disclose , Quick as her eyes , and as unfixed as those : Favors to none , to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects , but never once offends . Bright as the sun , her eyes the gazers strike , And like the sun , they shine on all ...
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Page 11751 - Hark, they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul ; can this be death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
Page 11722 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; 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...
Page 11744 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys. Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 11726 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who have learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Page 11739 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Page 11740 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 11723 - Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 11734 - The little engine on his fingers' ends ; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Page 12074 - And wider still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar ; And louder yet into Winchester rolled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled...
Page 11713 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise.