The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 - English poetry |
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... foul Lal move on virtue's , and on learning's pole : Whafe regular motions better to our view , Than Archimedes ' fphere , the heavens did fhew . VOL , VI . Graces and virtues , languages and arts , Beauty and learning fill'd up all the ...
... foul Lal move on virtue's , and on learning's pole : Whafe regular motions better to our view , Than Archimedes ' fphere , the heavens did fhew . VOL , VI . Graces and virtues , languages and arts , Beauty and learning fill'd up all the ...
Page xiv
... foul within ? No comet need foretel his change drew on , Whofe corps might feem a conftellation . O ! had he dy'd of old , how great a ftrife [ life ? Had been , who from his death fhould draw their Who should , by one rich draught ...
... foul within ? No comet need foretel his change drew on , Whofe corps might feem a conftellation . O ! had he dy'd of old , how great a ftrife [ life ? Had been , who from his death fhould draw their Who should , by one rich draught ...
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... foul not all her treasure lent , And then betray'd it to a mean defcent ! 1 find , I find my mounting fpirits bold , And David's part difdains my mother's mould . Why am I feanted by a niggard birth ? My foul difclaims the kindred of ...
... foul not all her treasure lent , And then betray'd it to a mean defcent ! 1 find , I find my mounting fpirits bold , And David's part difdains my mother's mould . Why am I feanted by a niggard birth ? My foul difclaims the kindred of ...
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... foul [ pole : Mounts up , and leaves behind the clouds and starry From thence thy kindred legions mayft thou bring , To aid the guardian angel of thy king . Here ftop , my Mufe , here ceafe thy painful flight : No pinions can purfue ...
... foul [ pole : Mounts up , and leaves behind the clouds and starry From thence thy kindred legions mayft thou bring , To aid the guardian angel of thy king . Here ftop , my Mufe , here ceafe thy painful flight : No pinions can purfue ...
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... foul's anointed temple may invade , Or , preft by clamorous crowds , myfelf be made His murtherer ; rebellious crowds , whofe guilt Shall dread his vengeance till his blood be spilt . Which if my filial tenderness oppofe , Since to the ...
... foul's anointed temple may invade , Or , preft by clamorous crowds , myfelf be made His murtherer ; rebellious crowds , whofe guilt Shall dread his vengeance till his blood be spilt . Which if my filial tenderness oppofe , Since to the ...
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Page 31 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 163 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 40 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.
Page 219 - And that, a sleeve embroider'd by his love. With Palamon, above the rest in place, Lycurgus came, the surly...
Page 162 - Flushed with a purple grace, He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath. He comes ! he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Page 59 - They who would prove religion by reason, do but weaken the cause which they endeavour to support, it is to take away the pillars from our faith, and to prop it only with a twig...
Page iv - Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion, of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments.
Page 35 - Law they require, let law then show her face ; They could not be content to look on grace, Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye To tempt the terror of her front, and die. By their own arts 'tis righteously decreed, Those dire artificers of death shall bleed...
Page 66 - To keep it in her power to damn and save. Scripture was scarce, and as the market went, Poor laymen took salvation on content, As needy men take money, good or bad ; God's word they had not, but the priest's they had.
Page 139 - Strung each his lyre, and tun'd it high, That all the people of the sky Might know a poetess was born on earth ; And then, if ever, mortal ears Had heard the music of the spheres. And if no clust'ring swarm of bees...