The British poets, including translations, Volume 241822 |
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... conscience to contend ? Whose want in kings as needful is allow'd , As ' tis for them to find it in the crowd . Far in the doubtful passage you are gone , And only can be safe by pressing on . The Crown's true heir , a prince severe and ...
... conscience to contend ? Whose want in kings as needful is allow'd , As ' tis for them to find it in the crowd . Far in the doubtful passage you are gone , And only can be safe by pressing on . The Crown's true heir , a prince severe and ...
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... conscience suited to his trade , As good a saint as usurer ever made : Yet Mammon has not so engross'd him quite , But Belial lays as large a claim of spite ; Who , for those pardons from his prince he draws , Returns reproaches , and ...
... conscience suited to his trade , As good a saint as usurer ever made : Yet Mammon has not so engross'd him quite , But Belial lays as large a claim of spite ; Who , for those pardons from his prince he draws , Returns reproaches , and ...
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British poets. Some future hopes , some present payment draws , To sell their conscience and espouse the cause ; Such stipends those vile hirelings best befit , Priests without grace , and poets without wit . Shall that false Hebronite ...
British poets. Some future hopes , some present payment draws , To sell their conscience and espouse the cause ; Such stipends those vile hirelings best befit , Priests without grace , and poets without wit . Shall that false Hebronite ...
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... conscience to be double knaves . So this prose - prophet took most monstrous pains To let his masters see he earn'd his gains ; But , as the devil owes all his imps a shame , He chose the ' apostate for his proper theme ; With little ...
... conscience to be double knaves . So this prose - prophet took most monstrous pains To let his masters see he earn'd his gains ; But , as the devil owes all his imps a shame , He chose the ' apostate for his proper theme ; With little ...
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... conscience gives their tongue the lie . E'en in the worst of men the noblest parts Confess him , and he triumphs in their hearts , Whom to his king the best respects commend Of subject , soldier , kinsman , prince , and friend ; All ...
... conscience gives their tongue the lie . E'en in the worst of men the noblest parts Confess him , and he triumphs in their hearts , Whom to his king the best respects commend Of subject , soldier , kinsman , prince , and friend ; All ...
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Page 20 - A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit...
Page 285 - But Oh! what art can teach, What human voice can reach The sacred organ's praise? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above.
Page 95 - Tis true she bounded by and tripped so light, They had not time to take a steady sight ; For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be loved needs only to be seen.
Page 15 - Promiscuous use of concubine and bride ; Then Israel's monarch after heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves ; and wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.
Page 20 - In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...
Page 261 - Another's diving bow he did adore, Which with a shog casts all the hair before, Till he, with full decorum, brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake. As for his songs, the ladies' dear delight, These sure he took from most of you who write.
Page 84 - And in his father's right and realm's defence, Ne'er to have peace with wit nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;
Page 142 - With loss of all that mortals hold so dear. Then welcome infamy and public shame, And last, a long farewell to worldly fame ! 'Tis said with ease ; but, oh, how hardly...
Page 286 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Page 94 - A MILK-WHITE Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns and in the forest ranged ; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.