The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 81804 |
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... cause was to be try'd ; But this their fquabbles cit afresh renew , Who fhould be judge in such a trial : Who ? For Johnson fome , but Johnson , it was fear'd , Would be too grave ; and Sterne too gay appear'd : Others for Francklin ...
... cause was to be try'd ; But this their fquabbles cit afresh renew , Who fhould be judge in such a trial : Who ? For Johnson fome , but Johnson , it was fear'd , Would be too grave ; and Sterne too gay appear'd : Others for Francklin ...
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... cause . Mean - time the stranger ev'ry voice employ'd , To afk or tell his name - Who is it ? -LLOYD . Thus , when the aged friends of Job stood mute , And , tamely prudent , gave up the difpute , Elihu , with the decent warmth of youth ...
... cause . Mean - time the stranger ev'ry voice employ'd , To afk or tell his name - Who is it ? -LLOYD . Thus , when the aged friends of Job stood mute , And , tamely prudent , gave up the difpute , Elihu , with the decent warmth of youth ...
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... cause we know →→→→ It was the fashion twenty years ago . Fashion , a word which knaves and fools may use Their knavery and folly to excufe . To copy beauties , forfeits all pretence To fame to copy faults , is want of fenfe . Yet ...
... cause we know →→→→ It was the fashion twenty years ago . Fashion , a word which knaves and fools may use Their knavery and folly to excufe . To copy beauties , forfeits all pretence To fame to copy faults , is want of fenfe . Yet ...
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... cause the vengeance might provoke , It feems rank cowardice to give the stroke Sure ' tis a curfe which angry Fates impose , To mortify man's arrogance , that those Who're fashion'd of fome better fort of clay , Much fooner than the ...
... cause the vengeance might provoke , It feems rank cowardice to give the stroke Sure ' tis a curfe which angry Fates impose , To mortify man's arrogance , that those Who're fashion'd of fome better fort of clay , Much fooner than the ...
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... . The fact confirm'd beyond all doubt , They now would find the causes out . For this a facred rule we find Among the niceft of mankind , Which never might exception brook , From Hobbes e'en down CHURCHILL'S 31 POEMS .
... . The fact confirm'd beyond all doubt , They now would find the causes out . For this a facred rule we find Among the niceft of mankind , Which never might exception brook , From Hobbes e'en down CHURCHILL'S 31 POEMS .
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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.