The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... Night . An Epistle to Robert Lloyd .... 96 An Epistle to William Hogarth 109 ........ The Conference 130 The Farewell 143 The Candidate ... 159 The Author ....... 186 The Duellist .. ......... 200 The Prophecy of Famine . A Scots ...
... Night . An Epistle to Robert Lloyd .... 96 An Epistle to William Hogarth 109 ........ The Conference 130 The Farewell 143 The Candidate ... 159 The Author ....... 186 The Duellist .. ......... 200 The Prophecy of Famine . A Scots ...
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... Night , an Epistle to Robert Lloyd . ' If he left his enemies uncon- verted by it , he at least succeeded in supporting his poetical fame . The purport of this epistle has been misrepresented by every writer who has alluded to it . One ...
... Night , an Epistle to Robert Lloyd . ' If he left his enemies uncon- verted by it , he at least succeeded in supporting his poetical fame . The purport of this epistle has been misrepresented by every writer who has alluded to it . One ...
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... night , Pours on us like a flood of light ; Whose active , comprehensive mind Walks Fancy's regions unconfined ; Whom nor the surly sense of pride Nor affectation warps aside ; Who drags no author from his shelf To talk on , with an eye ...
... night , Pours on us like a flood of light ; Whose active , comprehensive mind Walks Fancy's regions unconfined ; Whom nor the surly sense of pride Nor affectation warps aside ; Who drags no author from his shelf To talk on , with an eye ...
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... night ; With that malignant envy which turns pale And sickens even if a friend prevail , Which merit and success pursues with hate , And damns the worth it cannot imitate ; With the cold caution of a coward's spleen , Which fears not ...
... night ; With that malignant envy which turns pale And sickens even if a friend prevail , Which merit and success pursues with hate , And damns the worth it cannot imitate ; With the cold caution of a coward's spleen , Which fears not ...
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... tation of Shylock , and in his own plays of the Man of the World and Love - à - la Mode . 53 This gentleman was a competitor of Macklin's in teach- ing elocution . Secret as night , with Rolt's 54 experienced aid , THE ROSCIAD . 63.
... tation of Shylock , and in his own plays of the Man of the World and Love - à - la Mode . 53 This gentleman was a competitor of Macklin's in teach- ing elocution . Secret as night , with Rolt's 54 experienced aid , THE ROSCIAD . 63.
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actor behold bids birth bless'd bred call'd Candour censure CHARLES CHURCHILL Churchill court crimes curse dare death Dost doth dull Dulness e'en Envy Falstaff fame fate favour fear feel Fleet Prison flowing tears foes folly fools form'd gainst Garrick gave genius give grace grown guilt hand hate hath head heart Hogarth honest honour humour justice kings laugh Liberty live Lloyd Lord mankind mean merit mighty Muse Nature Nature's ne'er never North Briton numbers o'er once passions Paul Whitehead poem poet praise pride proud Prudence racter rage Rainham reason rhyme Richard Yates Robert Lloyd Rosciad sacred satire scorn sense shame slaves smile soul spirit Spranger Barry stage stand taught thee thine things thou thought throne trembling truth turn'd University of Oxford Vice vile virtue Virtue's Westminster School Whilst Wilkes worth wretch zeal
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Page 80 - Let wits, like spiders, from the tortured brain Fine-draw the critic-web with curious pain ; The gods, — a kindness I with thanks must pay, — Have form'd me of a coarser kind of clay ; Nor stung with envy, nor with spleen diseased, A poor dull creature, still with nature pleased ; Hence to thy praises, Garrick, I agree, And, pleased with nature, must be pleased with thee.
Page 118 - When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, Men will believe, because they love the lie ; But Truth herself, if clouded with a frown, Must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
Page 74 - In person taller than the common size, Behold where Barry draws admiring eyes ! When lab'ring passions, in his bosom pent, Convulsive rage, and struggling heave for vent, Spectators, with imagin'd terrors warm, Anxious expect the bursting of the storm ; But, all unfit in such a pile to dwell, His voice comes forth like Echo from her cell, To swell the tempest needful aid denies, And all adown the stage in feeble murmurs dies.
Page 45 - Known but to few, or only known by name, Plain Common Sense, appear'd, by Nature there Appointed, with Plain Truth, to guard the chair ; The pageant saw, and blasted with her frown To Its first state of nothing melted down.
Page 245 - Slugs, pinch'd with hunger, smear'd the slimy wall ; The cave around with hissing serpents rung ; On the damp roof unhealthy vapour hung ; . And Famine, by her children always known, As proud as poor, here fix'd her native throne.
Page 244 - ... passage, flew, No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo. No streams as amber smooth, as amber clear, Were seen to glide, or heard to warble here. Rebellion's spring, which' through the country ran, Furnish'd, with bitter draughts, the steady clan.
Page 136 - Fond man, believe it not; experience tells 'Tis not thy virtue, but thy pride rebels. Think, (and for once lay by thy lawless pen) Think, and confess thyself like other men; Think but one hour, and, to thy conscience led By Reason's hand, bow down and hang thy head: Think on thy private life...
Page 93 - Perfect then only deem'd when they dispense A happy, tuneful vacancy of sense. Italian fathers thus, with barbarous rage, Fit helpless infants for the squeaking stage : Deaf to the calls of pity, Nature wound, And mangle vigour for the sake of sound. Henceforth farewell...
Page 55 - Strange to relate, but wonderfully true, That even shadows have their shadows too ! With not a single comic power endued, The first a mere mere mimic's mimic stood...
Page 230 - His bills sent in ; too great to pay Too proud to speak to, if he meets The honest tradesman whom he cheats ; «oo Too infamous to have a friend ; Too bad for bad men to commend...