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ii ADVERTISEMENT . and in some cases his only , production , and that no publication of like nature ever comprehended fuch a number and variety of excellent poems , or was printed with superior elegance , fidelity , or correctnefs .
ii ADVERTISEMENT . and in some cases his only , production , and that no publication of like nature ever comprehended fuch a number and variety of excellent poems , or was printed with superior elegance , fidelity , or correctnefs .
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One should indeed have naturally concluded that these important facts , for fuch the birth and death of a man of merit or eminence undoubtedly are , would be found in the lives that have been written of almost all the perfons just named ...
One should indeed have naturally concluded that these important facts , for fuch the birth and death of a man of merit or eminence undoubtedly are , would be found in the lives that have been written of almost all the perfons just named ...
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Nor will any perfon be forward to rescue fuch things from oblivion , while the attempt expofes him to the malignant and ruffian - like attacks of fome hackney fcribbler or perfonal enemy , through the medium of one or other of two ...
Nor will any perfon be forward to rescue fuch things from oblivion , while the attempt expofes him to the malignant and ruffian - like attacks of fome hackney fcribbler or perfonal enemy , through the medium of one or other of two ...
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... Wyth eyes caft up into the maydens tower , And easy fighes , fuch as folkes draw in love ; The stately seates , the ladies brighte of hewe ; The daunces fhort , long tales of greate delight , 10 Wyth woordes and lookes , that tygers ...
... Wyth eyes caft up into the maydens tower , And easy fighes , fuch as folkes draw in love ; The stately seates , the ladies brighte of hewe ; The daunces fhort , long tales of greate delight , 10 Wyth woordes and lookes , that tygers ...
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... that harborde us eche nyghte : Wherewyth ( alas ) reviveth in my brefte , The fwete accorde , fuch flepes as yet delyght ; 35 The pleasant dreames , the quyet bed of reste ; The fecret thoughtes imparted with fuch truft ; The wanton ...
... that harborde us eche nyghte : Wherewyth ( alas ) reviveth in my brefte , The fwete accorde , fuch flepes as yet delyght ; 35 The pleasant dreames , the quyet bed of reste ; The fecret thoughtes imparted with fuch truft ; The wanton ...
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Page 41 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 45 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Page 33 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 118 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Page 35 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Page 48 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
Page 51 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 40 - But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song...
Page 33 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 253 - Thus artists melt the sullen ore of lead, With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And, loose from dross, the silver runs below.