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... youth with a merchant at Lisbon , had become a convert to the Roman Catholic faith , was an eminent linen - draper : the paternal grandfather of the poet was a clergyman of the Church of England , settled in Hampshire . His mother , who ...
... youth with a merchant at Lisbon , had become a convert to the Roman Catholic faith , was an eminent linen - draper : the paternal grandfather of the poet was a clergyman of the Church of England , settled in Hampshire . His mother , who ...
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... youth may be also noticed the translation of The First Book of Statius his Thebais , the rifacimenti of two of Chaucer's pieces , the version of Ovid's Epistle from Sappho to Phaon , Imitations of English Poets , a translation of ...
... youth may be also noticed the translation of The First Book of Statius his Thebais , the rifacimenti of two of Chaucer's pieces , the version of Ovid's Epistle from Sappho to Phaon , Imitations of English Poets , a translation of ...
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... youth , sourness and madness . I hope you will not need many arguments to con- vince you of the possibility of this : one alone abundantly satisfies me , and convinces to the heart ; which is , that young as I am , and old as you are ...
... youth , sourness and madness . I hope you will not need many arguments to con- vince you of the possibility of this : one alone abundantly satisfies me , and convinces to the heart ; which is , that young as I am , and old as you are ...
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... youth , she had met at the court of France . In 1710 , if we give this date to the Elegy , the Duke of Berry must have been in his twenty - fourth year , being born in 1686 . The verses certainly seem unintelligible , unless they allude ...
... youth , she had met at the court of France . In 1710 , if we give this date to the Elegy , the Duke of Berry must have been in his twenty - fourth year , being born in 1686 . The verses certainly seem unintelligible , unless they allude ...
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... youth , Sir William Trumbull , had ear vised him to undertake it , and the n ential voices of Addison and Lord I had recently urged him to the attempt period , when our early writers were appreciated , the Iliad of Chapman was known ...
... youth , Sir William Trumbull , had ear vised him to undertake it , and the n ential voices of Addison and Lord I had recently urged him to the attempt period , when our early writers were appreciated , the Iliad of Chapman was known ...
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Page lvii - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Page 96 - Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the Men's wits against the Lady's hair; The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. \ See, fierce Belinda on the Baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: \ , ,. Nor feared the Chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
Page lvii - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 43 - Father of the future age. No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes; Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er, The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end.
Page 77 - But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three am'rous sighs to raise the fire.
Page 85 - ... ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the Lock a thousand Sprites repair...
Page 91 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 70 - Belinda may vouchsafe to view : Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays.
Page 46 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.
Page cxxiii - ... into the Motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be so frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's Name.