Juvenile poemsJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Poets , who those chiefs fublimely prais'd ! Oft I the traces you have left explore , Your ashes vifit , and your ... Poet's awful Form arife : 45 Stranger , he said , whose pious hand has paid These grateful rites to my attentive ...
... Poets , who those chiefs fublimely prais'd ! Oft I the traces you have left explore , Your ashes vifit , and your ... Poet's awful Form arife : 45 Stranger , he said , whose pious hand has paid These grateful rites to my attentive ...
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... poets of his country . But as this piece seems to have been the original of a new fort of poem , the Paftoral Comedy , in Italy , it cannot so well be confidered as a copy of the ancients . Spenser's Ca- lendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion ...
... poets of his country . But as this piece seems to have been the original of a new fort of poem , the Paftoral Comedy , in Italy , it cannot so well be confidered as a copy of the ancients . Spenser's Ca- lendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion ...
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... Poet , fays ( in a printed Letter of the Character of Mr. Wycherley ) " that 66 if he goes on as he has begun in ... Poets in this kind , Spencer , Virgil , Theocritus . A Shep- And carrying with you all the world can boaft , 10 ...
... Poet , fays ( in a printed Letter of the Character of Mr. Wycherley ) " that 66 if he goes on as he has begun in ... Poets in this kind , Spencer , Virgil , Theocritus . A Shep- And carrying with you all the world can boaft , 10 ...
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... Poets venerable made : Here his first lays majestic DENHAM sung ; There the last numbers flow'd from CoWLEY'S tongue . O early loft ! what tears the river shed , When the fad pomp along his banks was led ? His drooping swans on ev'ry ...
... Poets venerable made : Here his first lays majestic DENHAM sung ; There the last numbers flow'd from CoWLEY'S tongue . O early loft ! what tears the river shed , When the fad pomp along his banks was led ? His drooping swans on ev'ry ...
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... Poet's fire , And taught the world with reason to admire . Then Criticism the Muses handmaid prov'd , To dress her ... Poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . So modern ' Pothecaries ...
... Poet's fire , And taught the world with reason to admire . Then Criticism the Muses handmaid prov'd , To dress her ... Poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . So modern ' Pothecaries ...
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Page 148 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Page 81 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 165 - The Lock, obtain'd with Guilt, and kept with Pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a Prize no Mortal must be blest, So Heav'n decrees!
Page 138 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 156 - There she collects the force of female lungs, Sighs, sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues. A vial next she fills with fainting fears, Soft sorrows, melting griefs, and flowing' tears. The gnome rejoicing bears her gifts away, Spreads his black wings, and slowly mounts to day. Sunk in Thalestris' arms the nymph he found, Her eyes dejected and her hair unbound.
Page 169 - Cold is that breast which warm'd the world before, And those love-darting eyes must roll no more. Thus, if Eternal Justice rules the ball, Thus...
Page 104 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Page 109 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found.
Page 170 - How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 107 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...