 | Marco Girolamo Vida - Poetry - 1725 - 134 pages
...objects find, To wake attention, and fufpend the mindA cold dull order bravely they forfake ; Fixt and refolv'd the winding way to take, They nobly deviate...as he fings, To launch out boldly from the midft of thing!, Where fome diftinguiflit incident he views, Some fliining a&ion that deferves a mufe. Thence... | |
 | Marco Girolamo Vida (bp. of Alba.) - 1742 - 94 pages
...fufpend the irfind. A cold. • Vid. Kom. Odjjf, Lib. I. A cold dull order bravely they forfake ; ~) Fixt and refolv'd the winding way to take, > They nobly deviate from the beaten track. J The poet marks th,' oceaficn, as he fings, To launch out boldly from the m'idft of things, Where... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 936 pages
...fufpend the mind. * Vid. Horn. Odyff. Lib. I. A cold A cold dull order bravely they forfake ; Fixt and refolv'd the winding way to take, They nobly deviate...fubjeft backward to its fprings, Left at his entrance he fhould idly fiay, Shock'd at his toil, and dubious of his way ; For when fet down fo near the promis'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 430 pages
...things, Where fume diftinguifh'd incident he views, Some dining aftion that deferves a Mufe. Tl(ence by degrees the wondering reader brings To trace the...fubjeft backward to its fprings, Left at his entrance he fhould idly ftay, Shock'd at his toil, and dubious of his way ; For when fct down fo near the promis'd... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - Poetry - 1892 - 378 pages
...To wake attention and suspend the mind. A cold dull order bravely they forsake ; Fixed and resolved the winding way to take, They nobly deviate from the beaten track. The poet marks the occasion, as he sings, To launch out boldly from the midst of things. Where some distinguished... | |
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A cold dull order bravely they forfake ; Fixt and refolv'd the winding way to take, They nobly deviate from the beaten track. The poet marks th... 