The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 81804 |
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... should be loft , " That spirit which in ftorms of Rhet'ric tost , " Bounces about , and flies like bottled beer , " In his own words his own intentions hear . " Thanks to my friends . - But to vile fortunes born , " No robes of fur ...
... should be loft , " That spirit which in ftorms of Rhet'ric tost , " Bounces about , and flies like bottled beer , " In his own words his own intentions hear . " Thanks to my friends . - But to vile fortunes born , " No robes of fur ...
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... should we then abroad for judges roam , " When abler judges we may find at home ? " Happy in tragic and in comic pow'rs , " Have we not Shakespeare ? —Is not Jonfon ours ? " For them , your natʼral judges Britons , vote ; " They'll ...
... should we then abroad for judges roam , " When abler judges we may find at home ? " Happy in tragic and in comic pow'rs , " Have we not Shakespeare ? —Is not Jonfon ours ? " For them , your natʼral judges Britons , vote ; " They'll ...
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... should we bar them in the copy here ? The nice punctilio mongers of this age , The grand minute reformers of the stage , Slaves to propriety of ev'ry kind , Some ftandard - meafure for each part should find , Which then the beft of ...
... should we bar them in the copy here ? The nice punctilio mongers of this age , The grand minute reformers of the stage , Slaves to propriety of ev'ry kind , Some ftandard - meafure for each part should find , Which then the beft of ...
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... Should any novice in the riming trade With lawless pen the realms of verse invade ; Forth from the court , where fceptred fages fit , Abus'd with praife , and flatter'd into wit ; Where in lethargic majefty they reign , And what they ...
... Should any novice in the riming trade With lawless pen the realms of verse invade ; Forth from the court , where fceptred fages fit , Abus'd with praife , and flatter'd into wit ; Where in lethargic majefty they reign , And what they ...
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... should her ambition claim ; " Behold where Sternhold points the way to fame . " Whilft with mistaken zeal dull bigots burn , Let Reafon for a moment take her turn . When coffee - fages hold difcourfe with kings , And blindly walk in ...
... should her ambition claim ; " Behold where Sternhold points the way to fame . " Whilft with mistaken zeal dull bigots burn , Let Reafon for a moment take her turn . When coffee - fages hold difcourfe with kings , And blindly walk in ...
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Page 221 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 219 - Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Page 219 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 221 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 503 - The rooms with costly tapestry were hung, Where was inwoven many a gentle tale ; Such as of old the rural poets sung...
Page 506 - Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight damsel chaunc'd to trippen by ; Which when observ'd, he shrunk into his mew, And straight would recollect his piety anew.
Page 219 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 513 - The gentle Knight, who saw their rueful case, Let fall adown his silver beard some tears. "Certes...
Page 508 - And certes had been utterly undone; But that Minerva pity of him took, With all the gods that love the rural wonne, That teach to tame the soil and rule the crook ; Ne did the sacred Nine disdain a gentle look.
Page 503 - As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.