Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected and Arranged ...J. Roach, 1794 - English poetry |
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... rife , And with attractive majefty surprise , Not by affected meretricious arts , But ftrict harmonious fymmetry of parts ; Which through the whole infenfibly must pass , With vital heat to animate the mafs : A pure , an active , an ...
... rife , And with attractive majefty surprise , Not by affected meretricious arts , But ftrict harmonious fymmetry of parts ; Which through the whole infenfibly must pass , With vital heat to animate the mafs : A pure , an active , an ...
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... rife . Affected noife is the moft wretched thing That to contempt can empty fcribblers bring . Vowels and accents , regularly plac'd , On even fyllables ( and ftill the laft ) Though grofs innumerable faults abound , In fpite of ...
... rife . Affected noife is the moft wretched thing That to contempt can empty fcribblers bring . Vowels and accents , regularly plac'd , On even fyllables ( and ftill the laft ) Though grofs innumerable faults abound , In fpite of ...
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... rife . True poets are the guardians of the flate , And , when they fail , portend'approaching fate . For that which Rome to conqueft did inspire , Was not the véftal , but the mufe's fire ; Heaven joins the bleffings : no declining age ...
... rife . True poets are the guardians of the flate , And , when they fail , portend'approaching fate . For that which Rome to conqueft did inspire , Was not the véftal , but the mufe's fire ; Heaven joins the bleffings : no declining age ...
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... rife ; Damn with faint praife , affent with civil leer , And , without fneering , teach the reft to fneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to ftrike , Just hint a fault ,, and hesitate diflike ; Alike referv'd to blame , or to ...
... rife ; Damn with faint praife , affent with civil leer , And , without fneering , teach the reft to fneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to ftrike , Just hint a fault ,, and hesitate diflike ; Alike referv'd to blame , or to ...
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... rife nor fall ? Speak out , and bid me blame no rogues at all . F. Yes , ftrike that Wild , I - ll juftify the blow . P. Strike ? why the man was hang'd ten years ago ; Who now that obfolete example fears ? Even Peter trembles only for ...
... rife nor fall ? Speak out , and bid me blame no rogues at all . F. Yes , ftrike that Wild , I - ll juftify the blow . P. Strike ? why the man was hang'd ten years ago ; Who now that obfolete example fears ? Even Peter trembles only for ...
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Page 29 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 33 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Page 55 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek : Wi...
Page 22 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 2 - Though restless still themselves, a lulling murmur made. Joined to the prattle of the purling rills, Were heard the lowing herds along the vale, And flocks loud-bleating from the distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves...
Page 24 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Page 59 - An honest man's the noblest work of God;' And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd!
Page 13 - As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Page 36 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Page 26 - And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?