The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 - English poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 20
... Thefe fight like hufbands , but like lovers thofe : Thefe fain would keep , and thofe more fa enjoy : And to fuch height their frantic paffion grows , That what both love , both hazard to destroy . XXIX . Amidst whole heaps of fpices ...
... Thefe fight like hufbands , but like lovers thofe : Thefe fain would keep , and thofe more fa enjoy : And to fuch height their frantic paffion grows , That what both love , both hazard to destroy . XXIX . Amidst whole heaps of fpices ...
Page 33
... Thefe are the grievances of fuch fools as would Be rather wife than honeft , great than good . Some other kind of wits must be made known , Whofe harmless errors hurt themselves alone ; Excefs of luxury they think can please , And ...
... Thefe are the grievances of fuch fools as would Be rather wife than honeft , great than good . Some other kind of wits must be made known , Whofe harmless errors hurt themselves alone ; Excefs of luxury they think can please , And ...
Page 41
... Thefe were for laying honeft David by , On principles of pure good husbandry . With them join'd all th ' haranguers of the throng , That thought to get preferment by the tongue . Who follow next a double danger bring , Not only hating ...
... Thefe were for laying honeft David by , On principles of pure good husbandry . With them join'd all th ' haranguers of the throng , That thought to get preferment by the tongue . Who follow next a double danger bring , Not only hating ...
Page 44
... thefe fucceed the pillars of the laws ; Who beft can plead , and best can judge a caufe . Next them a train of loyal peers afcend ; Sharp - judging Adriel , the Mufes ' friend , Himfelf a Mufe : in fanhedrims debate True to his prince ...
... thefe fucceed the pillars of the laws ; Who beft can plead , and best can judge a caufe . Next them a train of loyal peers afcend ; Sharp - judging Adriel , the Mufes ' friend , Himfelf a Mufe : in fanhedrims debate True to his prince ...
Page 49
... thefe , extorting Ifhban first appears , Purfued by a meager troop of bankrupt heirs . Bleft times when Ihban , he whofe occupation So long has been to cheat , reforms the nation ! Ifhban of confcience fuited to his trade , As good a ...
... thefe , extorting Ifhban first appears , Purfued by a meager troop of bankrupt heirs . Bleft times when Ihban , he whofe occupation So long has been to cheat , reforms the nation ! Ifhban of confcience fuited to his trade , As good a ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
againſt arms beauty becauſe beft beſt bleft blood breaſt caft caufe cauſe charms death defire ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fair falfe fame fate fatire fear feas fecret fecure feems feen fenfe fent fhades fhall fhew fhould fide fighs fight fince fing fire firft firſt flain foes foft fome foon forrow foul ftand ftill fubject fuch fure Gods grace heart heaven himſelf HIPPOLITUS honour juft juſt king laft laſt leaſt lefs loft lord lov'd LYCON mighty mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er Ovid paffion pain Phædra pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure poet praiſe prefent prince purſue rage raiſe reafon reft reſt rife ſhall ſhe ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought tranflation Twas uſe verfe virtue whofe whoſe wife worfe youth
Popular passages
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...