Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1797 - English poetry |
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... ne'er will die , shall be An everlasting monument to thee . The Characters of this Poem are for the most part obvious , even to the meanest pretenders to learning or history ; nor can scarce any one be so ignorant as not to know that ...
... ne'er will die , shall be An everlasting monument to thee . The Characters of this Poem are for the most part obvious , even to the meanest pretenders to learning or history ; nor can scarce any one be so ignorant as not to know that ...
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... ne'er be spent : And truly , to support that charge , He had supplies as vast and large ; For he could coin or counterfeit New words , with little or no wit ; 110 V. 109. ] The Presbyterians coined a great num- ber , such as Outgoings ...
... ne'er be spent : And truly , to support that charge , He had supplies as vast and large ; For he could coin or counterfeit New words , with little or no wit ; 110 V. 109. ] The Presbyterians coined a great num- ber , such as Outgoings ...
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... Ne'er left the fortify'd redoubt : 325 And tho ' knights errant , as some think , Of old did neither eat nor drink , Because when thorough deserts vast , And regions desolate , they past , 330 Where belly - timber above ground , Or ...
... Ne'er left the fortify'd redoubt : 325 And tho ' knights errant , as some think , Of old did neither eat nor drink , Because when thorough deserts vast , And regions desolate , they past , 330 Where belly - timber above ground , Or ...
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... ne'er gave quarter to any such . The trenchant blade , Toledo trusty , For want of fighting was grown rusty , And ate into itself , for lack Of some body to hew and hack : The peaceful scabbard , where it dwelt , The rancour of its edge ...
... ne'er gave quarter to any such . The trenchant blade , Toledo trusty , For want of fighting was grown rusty , And ate into itself , for lack Of some body to hew and hack : The peaceful scabbard , where it dwelt , The rancour of its edge ...
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... ne'er consider'd it , as loath To look a gift - horse in the mouth , And very wisely wou'd lay forth No more upon it than ' twas worth ; 485 490 v . 485. His wits were sent him . ] In all editions to 1704 inclusive . v.487 , 488 ...
... ne'er consider'd it , as loath To look a gift - horse in the mouth , And very wisely wou'd lay forth No more upon it than ' twas worth ; 485 490 v . 485. His wits were sent him . ] In all editions to 1704 inclusive . v.487 , 488 ...
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Page 16 - He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H...
Page 210 - Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil : For Saints may do the same things by The Spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do ; And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the Saints and Wicked vary.
Page 14 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...
Page 14 - Though not a man of them knew wherefore ; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick, Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Page 30 - Unless they graz'd there's not one word Of their provision on record ; Which made some confidently write, They had no stomachs but to fight.
Page 39 - He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; 550 What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and
Page 24 - Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox By...
Page 22 - Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with doubts profound, Only to show with how small pain The sores of Faith are cured again ; Although by woful proof we find They always leave a scar behind.
Page 78 - And what would serve, if those were gone, To make it orthodox ?" — " Our own." " What makes morality a crime, The most notorious of the time ; Morality, which both the saints And wicked too cry out against ?" — " 'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin ; And therefore no true saint allows They shall be...
Page 107 - Is marry'd only to a thumb (As wise as ringing of a pig, That us'd to break up ground and dig), The bride to nothing but her will, That nulls the after-marriage still : Some were for th...