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... give him quiet , My faith rewards my love , though he deny it . " In these , and still more in later and better examples , he shows that he possessed a genuine lyric grace , the existence of which we should otherwise scarcely have ...
... give him quiet , My faith rewards my love , though he deny it . " In these , and still more in later and better examples , he shows that he possessed a genuine lyric grace , the existence of which we should otherwise scarcely have ...
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... gives smiles , thy comic sleep . With whate'er gall thou set'st thyself to write , Thy inoffensive satires never bite ; In thy felonious heart though venom lies , It does but touch thy Irish pen , and dies . Thy genius call thee not to ...
... gives smiles , thy comic sleep . With whate'er gall thou set'st thyself to write , Thy inoffensive satires never bite ; In thy felonious heart though venom lies , It does but touch thy Irish pen , and dies . Thy genius call thee not to ...
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... gives it a becoming grace , But let in such a curious frame , As if ' twere wrought in filograin ; And cut so ev'n , as if ' t had been Drawn with a pen upon his chin . No topiary hedge of quickset Was e'er so neatly cut , or thick set ...
... gives it a becoming grace , But let in such a curious frame , As if ' twere wrought in filograin ; And cut so ev'n , as if ' t had been Drawn with a pen upon his chin . No topiary hedge of quickset Was e'er so neatly cut , or thick set ...
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... gives to ev'ry foul design , And we must own his very vices shine ; But of this odd ill - nature to mankind Himself alone the ill effects will find : So envious hags in vain their witchcraft try , Yet for intended mischief justly die ...
... gives to ev'ry foul design , And we must own his very vices shine ; But of this odd ill - nature to mankind Himself alone the ill effects will find : So envious hags in vain their witchcraft try , Yet for intended mischief justly die ...
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... gives a sort of précis of the sixth book of Paradise Lost in that measure . In 1684 he published a paraphrase of Horace's Art of Poetry in blank verse , and Roscommon is remarkable as the only writer between Milton and the end of the ...
... gives a sort of précis of the sixth book of Paradise Lost in that measure . In 1684 he published a paraphrase of Horace's Art of Poetry in blank verse , and Roscommon is remarkable as the only writer between Milton and the end of the ...
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Page 233 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 125 - Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; And universal Darkness buries All.
Page 229 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 290 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 294 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by: His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Page 340 - Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't • As he comes up the stair, — And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi...
Page 121 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Page 60 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 231 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome— at an inn.
Page 322 - Those poets who owe their best fame to his skill Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will; Old Shakespeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.