Poems by George Butt. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [-II.].author, 1793 - Epistolary poetry, English |
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... DEAR SIR , CONFIDENT in the moral tendency of the following writings , could I be as confident , that , printed under the appellation of poems , they were really such , and not to be accounted so , by modern courtesy , upon the ...
... DEAR SIR , CONFIDENT in the moral tendency of the following writings , could I be as confident , that , printed under the appellation of poems , they were really such , and not to be accounted so , by modern courtesy , upon the ...
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... a life of the most illustrious virtue . I have the honour to be , Dear Sir , Your most sincere friend , and obliged humble servant , KIDDERMINSTER , September 22d , 1793 . G. BUTT . .. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . AN Epistle to A 2.
... a life of the most illustrious virtue . I have the honour to be , Dear Sir , Your most sincere friend , and obliged humble servant , KIDDERMINSTER , September 22d , 1793 . G. BUTT . .. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . AN Epistle to A 2.
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... dear friends , I thro ' this Cambrian Tempe roam'd at ease , And knew more joy , than oft has been my lot , Haply ( so chance dispos'd our free discourse ) , The converse turn'd on absent friends belov'd : - On Micio's mild reserve and ...
... dear friends , I thro ' this Cambrian Tempe roam'd at ease , And knew more joy , than oft has been my lot , Haply ( so chance dispos'd our free discourse ) , The converse turn'd on absent friends belov'd : - On Micio's mild reserve and ...
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... dear friend , I thus my heart disclose ( Tho ' wand'ring from my theme ) , as wont ere while When you and I , in well remember'd days , Convers'd harmonious . - But I now resume My pleasing journey thro ' the Chluid's vale . Lo ! as we ...
... dear friend , I thus my heart disclose ( Tho ' wand'ring from my theme ) , as wont ere while When you and I , in well remember'd days , Convers'd harmonious . - But I now resume My pleasing journey thro ' the Chluid's vale . Lo ! as we ...
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... dear friends , Depictur'd , not displease thy gen'rous mind , Which haply now the dread Pantheon charms , Simply majestic , or the sculptur'd stone Wrought into semblance of some hero's form , Strikes with a solemn sense of ancient days ...
... dear friends , Depictur'd , not displease thy gen'rous mind , Which haply now the dread Pantheon charms , Simply majestic , or the sculptur'd stone Wrought into semblance of some hero's form , Strikes with a solemn sense of ancient days ...
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AULULARIA bard beauteous behold beneath bestow blaze blest bliss bloom bright Briton brow Cambrian charms dear Death delight divine dread e'en ease elder days fair fame Fancy Fancy's fear fire flame friendship gen'rous genius glory Glory's grace heart Heav'n heav'nly hoary honour Hymen JOHN SAUNDERS Life's light lov'd Lycidas lyre mankind mark Matho mind muse Muse's Nature's night noble numbers o'er Palemon Pindus Plutus poem poet poet's poison'd pomp pow'r praise pride printer's devil race rais'd raptur'd reign rev'rence rise Rome sacred scenes scorn shade shew shine smile song soon soul spirit spleen stamp'd sublime sweet SYLVIO tear thee thence thine thou thought thro toils tow'r Truth vale verse Virtue Virtue's warble ween Whilst wing Wisdom wise wont Worcestershire worth wreath youth zeal
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Page 53 - In which methodical course, it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward, as at convenient times for memory's sake to retire back into the middle ward, and sometimes into the rear of what they have been taught, until they have confirmed and solidly united the whole body of their perfected knowledge, like the last embattling of a Roman legion.
Page 53 - These are the studies wherein our noble and our gentle youth ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way from twelve to one and twenty; unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead than upon themselves living.
Page 189 - Kneller, by Heaven, and not a master, taught, Whose art was nature, and whose pictures thought; Now for two ages, having snatch'd from fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, lies crown'd with Princes honours, Poets...
Page 153 - Tis Winter, cold and rude, Heap, heap the warming wood ! The wild wind hums his sullen song to-night, Oh, hear that pattering shower! Haste, boy ! — this gloomy hour Demands relief; the cheerful tapers light. Though now my home...
Page 98 - Commons, that he became considerable, and was much trusted all the while the King was at Oxford. He stayed beyond sea following the King's fortune till the Restoration; and was now an absolute favourite, and the chief or the only Minister, but with too magisterial a way. He was always pressing the King to mind his affairs, but in vain. He was a good Chancellour, only a little too rough, but very impartial in the administration of justice.
Page 225 - Poems, published in 1793, are these lines : " We teach old maxims, neither less or more, Than Locke, or humble Hooker taught before. Those fograms, quizzes, treats, and bores, and gigs, Were held in some account with ancient prigs,
Page 178 - Thine is the fairest form of female worth, The gentlest grace of virtue, which the mind Of moralizing poet ever drew — Drew from his fancy, seldom found on earth, But now on earth he may the model find, Prepare his tints again, and paint from YOU.
Page 24 - ... Dr. George Butt, Vicar of Kidderminster, after a visit to Abberley Lodge (the seat of Robert Bromley, grandson of Walsh's sister Ann) composed a poetic "Epithalamium, " in which Addison is depicted as having enjoyed the hospitality of this country seat. To his work the poetic Butt added the note : " It is more than probable, that it was in this fitting seat of the Muses, where this amiable writer planned his Worcestershire papers, and saw the original Sir Roger de Coverley.
Page 98 - ... and did not always observe the decorum of his post. He was high, and was apt to reject those who addressed themselves to him with too much contempt. He had such a regard to the King, that when places were disposed of, even otherwise than as he advised, yet he would justify what the King did, and disparage the pretensions of others, not without much scorn; which created him many enemies. He was indefatigable in business, tho...