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... thou plowman by thy name , Yet so , the sailor saith I do him wrong : That one contends his pains are without peer , That other saith that none be like to his ; Indeed they labour both exceedingly . But since I see no shipman that can ...
... thou plowman by thy name , Yet so , the sailor saith I do him wrong : That one contends his pains are without peer , That other saith that none be like to his ; Indeed they labour both exceedingly . But since I see no shipman that can ...
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... thou canst sport in garish gauderie , To suit a fool's far - fetchéd livery . A French head joined to neck Italian : The thighs from Germany , the breast from Spain : An Englishman in none , a fool in all . " This reminds one of ...
... thou canst sport in garish gauderie , To suit a fool's far - fetchéd livery . A French head joined to neck Italian : The thighs from Germany , the breast from Spain : An Englishman in none , a fool in all . " This reminds one of ...
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... thou thy living deeds , No other tomb than that true virtue needs ! " Sat. ii . lib . iii . We cannot linger long over these poems . They were , perhaps , the first attempts in English at adapting ancient poetry to modern times ; a ...
... thou thy living deeds , No other tomb than that true virtue needs ! " Sat. ii . lib . iii . We cannot linger long over these poems . They were , perhaps , the first attempts in English at adapting ancient poetry to modern times ; a ...
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... thou let Soul be tied To men's laws , by which she shall not be tried * " Neither had I read the hobbling distick which he means . For this good hap I had from a careful education to be inured and seasoned be- times with the , best and ...
... thou let Soul be tied To men's laws , by which she shall not be tried * " Neither had I read the hobbling distick which he means . For this good hap I had from a careful education to be inured and seasoned be- times with the , best and ...
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... thou may'st rightly obey Power , her bounds know . " After the Restoration satire naturally had abundance of material . Marvell denounced the vices of the court , and , as I have said , Butler jeered at the Puritans . I think that most ...
... thou may'st rightly obey Power , her bounds know . " After the Restoration satire naturally had abundance of material . Marvell denounced the vices of the court , and , as I have said , Butler jeered at the Puritans . I think that most ...
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Page 137 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Page 52 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 249 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Page 53 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 106 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 245 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 389 - In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Page 52 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Page 53 - Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil.
Page 23 - That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...