The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 13-14J. Nichols, 1779 - Authors, English |
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... should decay in thee ; Did not the Muses ' other hope appear , Harmonious Congreve , and forbid our fear ! Gongreve ! whose fancy's unexhausted store Has given already much , and promis'd more . Congreve shall still preserve thy fame ...
... should decay in thee ; Did not the Muses ' other hope appear , Harmonious Congreve , and forbid our fear ! Gongreve ! whose fancy's unexhausted store Has given already much , and promis'd more . Congreve shall still preserve thy fame ...
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... should draw their life ? Who should , by one rich draught , become whate'er Seneca , Cato , Numa , Cæfar , were ? Learn'd , virtuous , pious , great ; and have by this An universal metempsychosis . Must all these aged fires in one ...
... should draw their life ? Who should , by one rich draught , become whate'er Seneca , Cato , Numa , Cæfar , were ? Learn'd , virtuous , pious , great ; and have by this An universal metempsychosis . Must all these aged fires in one ...
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... should do , And claim a title in him by their praise . V. How shall I then begin , or where conclude , To draw a fame so truly circular ; For in a round what order can be shew'd , Where all the parts so equal perfect are ? VI . His ...
... should do , And claim a title in him by their praise . V. How shall I then begin , or where conclude , To draw a fame so truly circular ; For in a round what order can be shew'd , Where all the parts so equal perfect are ? VI . His ...
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... should exceed Most in that virtue , which we most did need ; And his mild father ( who too late did find All mercy vain but what with power was join'd ) His fatal goodness left to fitter times , Not to increase , but to abfolve , our ...
... should exceed Most in that virtue , which we most did need ; And his mild father ( who too late did find All mercy vain but what with power was join'd ) His fatal goodness left to fitter times , Not to increase , but to abfolve , our ...
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... should only rest : And , ere our foes abroad were overcome , The noblest conquest you had gain'd at home . Ah , what concerns did both your fouls divide ! Your honour gave us what your love denied : And ' twas for him much easier to ...
... should only rest : And , ere our foes abroad were overcome , The noblest conquest you had gain'd at home . Ah , what concerns did both your fouls divide ! Your honour gave us what your love denied : And ' twas for him much easier to ...
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Page 181 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 129 - 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 chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 195 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 173 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 120 - And, to be loved himself, needs only to be known. Just, good, and wise, contending neighbours ,. come, | From your award to wait their final doom ; ( And, foes before, return in friendship home. Without their cost, you terminate the cause, And save the...
Page 89 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The King himself the sacred unction made, As King by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He plac'da mighty mug of potent ale; Love's Kingdom...
Page 182 - Excites us to arms With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, hark ! the foes come ; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat.
Page 91 - Where did his wit on learning fix a brand And rail at arts he did not understand? Where made he love in Prince Nicander's vein Or swept the dust in Psyche's humble strain? Where sold he bargains, "whipstitch, kiss my arse", Promised a play and dwindled to a farce?
Page 192 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...