The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... danger , he would have incurred , of lapsing into vulgarity by attempting to English the Iliad . Mr. Scott has forgotten , also , that these dead masters have some rights , as well as the living . We can hardly permit Virgil to be used ...
... danger , he would have incurred , of lapsing into vulgarity by attempting to English the Iliad . Mr. Scott has forgotten , also , that these dead masters have some rights , as well as the living . We can hardly permit Virgil to be used ...
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... dangers fear , Which humble Holland must dissemble here . Spain to your gift alone her Indies owes ; For what the powerful takes not , he bestows : And France , that did an exile's presence fear , May justly apprehend you still too near ...
... dangers fear , Which humble Holland must dissemble here . Spain to your gift alone her Indies owes ; For what the powerful takes not , he bestows : And France , that did an exile's presence fear , May justly apprehend you still too near ...
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... danger ; the greatness of arms is only real : other greatness burdens a nation with its weight ; this supports it with its strength . And as it is the happiness of the age , so it is the peculiar goodness of the best of Kings , that we ...
... danger ; the greatness of arms is only real : other greatness burdens a nation with its weight ; this supports it with its strength . And as it is the happiness of the age , so it is the peculiar goodness of the best of Kings , that we ...
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... dangers lay ; Where wealth , like fruit on precipices , grew , Not to be gather'd but by birds of prey . The loss and gain each fatally were great ; And still his subjects call'd aloud for war . But peaceful kings , o'er martial people ...
... dangers lay ; Where wealth , like fruit on precipices , grew , Not to be gather'd but by birds of prey . The loss and gain each fatally were great ; And still his subjects call'd aloud for war . But peaceful kings , o'er martial people ...
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... dangerous war pursues , Which without rashness he began before . As honour made him first the danger choose : So still he makes it good on virtue's score . The doubled charge , his subjects ' love supplies , Who in that bounty to ...
... dangerous war pursues , Which without rashness he began before . As honour made him first the danger choose : So still he makes it good on virtue's score . The doubled charge , his subjects ' love supplies , Who in that bounty to ...
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Page 155 - Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 254 - Egyptian* Bishop of another mind: For though his Creed eternal truth contains, 'Tis hard for man to doom to endless pains All who believ'd not all his zeal requir'd, Unless he first could prove he was inspir'd.
Page 261 - Tis some relief, that points not clearly known, Without much hazard, may be let alone ; And, after hearing what our church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb : For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern...
Page 184 - Round as a globe, and liquor'd every chink, Goodly and great he sails behind his link; With all this bulk there's nothing lost in Og, For every inch that is not fool is rogue: A monstrous mass of foul corrupted matter, As all the devils had spued to make the batter.
Page 123 - While by the motion of the flames they guess What streets are burning now, and what are near, An infant, waking, to the paps would press And meets instead of milk a falling tear. 260 No thought can ease them but their Sovereign's care. Whose praise the...
Page 144 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 151 - Till time shall ever-wanting David draw, To pass your doubtful title into law: If not; the people have a right supreme To make their kings; for kings are made for them.
Page 155 - Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. These out of mere instinct, they knew not why, Ador'd their fathers...
Page 162 - In midst of health imagine a disease, Take pains contingent mischiefs to foresee, Make heirs for monarchs, and for God decree? What shall we think? Can people give away, Both for themselves and sons, their native sway? Then they are left defenceless to the sword Of each unbounded, arbitrary lord ; And laws are vain, by which we right enjoy, If kings unquestioned can those laws destroy.
Page 184 - God before curst him ; And, if man could have reason, none has more, That made his paunch so rich, and him so poor. With wealth he was not trusted, for...