The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 - English poetry |
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... paffions , or extremely difcomposed by one . His words therefore are the leaft part of his care ; for he pictures nature in diforder , with which the ftudy and choice of words is inconsistent . This is the proper wit of dialogue or ...
... paffions , or extremely difcomposed by one . His words therefore are the leaft part of his care ; for he pictures nature in diforder , with which the ftudy and choice of words is inconsistent . This is the proper wit of dialogue or ...
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... paffion grows , That what both love , both hazard to destroy . XXIX . Amidst whole heaps of fpices lights a ball , And now their odours arm'd against them fly Some precioufly by fhatter'd porcelain fall , And fome by aromatic fplinters ...
... paffion grows , That what both love , both hazard to destroy . XXIX . Amidst whole heaps of fpices lights a ball , And now their odours arm'd against them fly Some precioufly by fhatter'd porcelain fall , And fome by aromatic fplinters ...
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... paffion haftes the prince to fight , And spreads his flying canvafs to the found : Him , whom no danger were he there could fright , Now abfent every little noife can wound . cx . As in a drought the thirsty creatures cry , And gape ...
... paffion haftes the prince to fight , And spreads his flying canvafs to the found : Him , whom no danger were he there could fright , Now abfent every little noife can wound . cx . As in a drought the thirsty creatures cry , And gape ...
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... paffion cool'd : So dextrous was he in the crown's defence , So form'd to speak a loyal nation's fenfe , That , as their band was Ifrael's tribes in fimall , So fit was he to reprefent them all . Now rafher charioteers the feat afcend ...
... paffion cool'd : So dextrous was he in the crown's defence , So form'd to speak a loyal nation's fenfe , That , as their band was Ifrael's tribes in fimall , So fit was he to reprefent them all . Now rafher charioteers the feat afcend ...
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... paffion never could resistance find , But knows the shorteft paffage to the mind . Paint then , I'm pleas'd my hero ... paffions we may find , The frailty , not the virtue of his mind . Of romance heroes fhun the low defign ; Yet to ...
... paffion never could resistance find , But knows the shorteft paffage to the mind . Paint then , I'm pleas'd my hero ... paffions we may find , The frailty , not the virtue of his mind . Of romance heroes fhun the low defign ; Yet to ...
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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...
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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...