A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison. Hammond. Savage. Hill. Tickell. Somervile. Broome. Pitt. Blair |
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... verfed in the sciences , acquainted with ancient literature , and able to animate his mass of knowledge , by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar , with great brilliance of wit ; a wit , who in the crowd of life retained and ...
... verfed in the sciences , acquainted with ancient literature , and able to animate his mass of knowledge , by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar , with great brilliance of wit ; a wit , who in the crowd of life retained and ...
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Where'er you walk , cool gales fhall fan the glade ; Trees , where you fit , fhall crowd into a fhade : Where'er you tread , the blushing flowers fhall rise , And all tings flourish where you turn your eyes .
Where'er you walk , cool gales fhall fan the glade ; Trees , where you fit , fhall crowd into a fhade : Where'er you tread , the blushing flowers fhall rise , And all tings flourish where you turn your eyes .
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Then fhips of uncouth form shall stem the tide , And feather'd people crowd my wealthy fide , And naked youths and painted chiefs admire , Our speech , our colour , and our strange attire ! Oh , ftretch thy reign , fair peace ! from ...
Then fhips of uncouth form shall stem the tide , And feather'd people crowd my wealthy fide , And naked youths and painted chiefs admire , Our speech , our colour , and our strange attire ! Oh , ftretch thy reign , fair peace ! from ...
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The vulgar thus through imitation err ; As oft the learn'd by being fingular ; So much they scorn the crowd , that if the throng By chance go right , they purpofely go wrong : So Schifmatics the plain believers quit , 420 And are but ...
The vulgar thus through imitation err ; As oft the learn'd by being fingular ; So much they scorn the crowd , that if the throng By chance go right , they purpofely go wrong : So Schifmatics the plain believers quit , 420 And are but ...
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Thefe fwell their profpects , and exalt their pride , When offers are difdain'd , and love deny'd : Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain , While peers , and dukes , and all their sweeping train , And garters , ftars , and coronets ...
Thefe fwell their profpects , and exalt their pride , When offers are difdain'd , and love deny'd : Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain , While peers , and dukes , and all their sweeping train , And garters , ftars , and coronets ...
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Page 92 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 23 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 92 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Page 89 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 89 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Page 13 - Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Page 9 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Page 35 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 161 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...
Page 102 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
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| Title | A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison. Hammond. Savage. Hill. Tickell. Somervile. Broome. Pitt. Blair Volume 8 of A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, John and Arthur Arch |
| Contributors | Bell & Bradfute, John and Arthur Arch |
| Publisher | John & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Apr 11, 2006 |
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