Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Swift. Hammond. Somerville. Parnell. Savage. BroomeSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... flaves ? The breath of fools , the bait of flattering knaves : An honeft heart , a confcience free from blame , Not of great acts , but good , give me the name : In vain we plant , we build , our ftores increase , If confcience roots up ...
... flaves ? The breath of fools , the bait of flattering knaves : An honeft heart , a confcience free from blame , Not of great acts , but good , give me the name : In vain we plant , we build , our ftores increase , If confcience roots up ...
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... flaves to flaughter led , Or wander through the world to beg their bread . " When regal power afpires above the laws ... flave , infults the Fair , Whose fetters ' twas his pride , in youth , to wear : So Lucifer revolting , brav'd the ...
... flaves to flaughter led , Or wander through the world to beg their bread . " When regal power afpires above the laws ... flave , infults the Fair , Whose fetters ' twas his pride , in youth , to wear : So Lucifer revolting , brav'd the ...
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... flaves affign'd , And taught the world that Beauty fhould be kind . Learn by this pattern , all ye fair , to charm ... flave to beauty , to record the Fair . Still wand'ring in love's fweet delicious maze , To fing the triumph of fome ...
... flaves affign'd , And taught the world that Beauty fhould be kind . Learn by this pattern , all ye fair , to charm ... flave to beauty , to record the Fair . Still wand'ring in love's fweet delicious maze , To fing the triumph of fome ...
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... flaves to know That the rich pearl was of more ufe than show , Who with high meats , or a luxurious draught , Kept love for ever flowing , and full fraught . Julius and Anthony , thofe lords of all , Each in his turn prefent the conquer ...
... flaves to know That the rich pearl was of more ufe than show , Who with high meats , or a luxurious draught , Kept love for ever flowing , and full fraught . Julius and Anthony , thofe lords of all , Each in his turn prefent the conquer ...
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... flave repine . THE ENCHANTMENT . Μ ' In Imitation of Theocritus . FIX , mix the Philters , quick - the flies , the flies , Deaf to my call , regardlefs of my cries . Are vows fo vain ? could oaths fo feeble prove ? Ah ! with what eafe ...
... flave repine . THE ENCHANTMENT . Μ ' In Imitation of Theocritus . FIX , mix the Philters , quick - the flies , the flies , Deaf to my call , regardlefs of my cries . Are vows fo vain ? could oaths fo feeble prove ? Ah ! with what eafe ...
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Page 416 - See how the Dean begins to break! Poor gentleman, he droops apace! You plainly find it in his face. That old vertigo in his head Will never leave him, till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays: He recollects not what he says; He cannot call his friends to mind; Forgets the place where last he dined; Plies you with stories o'er and o'er; He told them fifty times before.
Page 419 - He knew a hundred pleasant stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: Was cheerful to his dying day, And friends would let him have his way. 'He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Page 422 - When beasts could speak, (the learned say They still can do so every day,) It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men. It happen'd, when a plague broke out, (Which therefore made them more devout...
Page 416 - He's dead, you say; then let him rot; I'm glad the medals were forgot. I promis'd him, I own ; but when ? I only was the princess then ; But now as consort of the king, You know, 'tis quite another thing.
Page 428 - Two bordering wits contend for glory ; And one is Whig, and one is Tory : And this for epics claims the bays, And that for elegiac lays : Some...
Page 503 - With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below.
Page 107 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Page 416 - To hear his out-of-fashion wit ? But he takes up with younger folks, Who for his wine will bear his jokes. Faith ! he must make his stories shorter, Or change his comrades once a quarter ; In half the time he talks them round, There must another set be found.
Page 491 - His thoughts grow conscious of approaching woe, His idle tears with vain repentance flow ; His locks he rends, his trembling feet he rears, Thick beats his heart with...
Page 415 - em? To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts; but never to my friend: I tamely can endure the first; But this with envy makes me burst.