Faithful Memoirs of the Grubstreet Society. Now First Published by Mr. Bavius, Volume 1benefit of the Grubstreet Society, and sold, 1732 - 179 pages |
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... Verfe their Source derive , Shall both furmount Detration and furvive ; And Poets have unquestion'd Right to claim , If not the Greatest , the most Lafting Name . CONG . LONDON : Printed for the Benefit of the Grubstreet Society , and ...
... Verfe their Source derive , Shall both furmount Detration and furvive ; And Poets have unquestion'd Right to claim , If not the Greatest , the most Lafting Name . CONG . LONDON : Printed for the Benefit of the Grubstreet Society , and ...
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... Verfe , written at the latter End of the English Auguftian Age , by that celebrated Dramatick Poet , and learned Ornament of the Society of Grubftreet , Tho . Jordan , Gent . 39 An Epitaph on Mr. Fenton , 43 To the Right Honourable ...
... Verfe , written at the latter End of the English Auguftian Age , by that celebrated Dramatick Poet , and learned Ornament of the Society of Grubftreet , Tho . Jordan , Gent . 39 An Epitaph on Mr. Fenton , 43 To the Right Honourable ...
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... verfe we ftray ; The pleafing poifon turns our brain , And we againft ourselves obey . Thofe paffions differ but in this : The maid poffefs'd , we ftrait remove ; Unfated with poetick blifs , The more w'enjoy , the more we love . Would ...
... verfe we ftray ; The pleafing poifon turns our brain , And we againft ourselves obey . Thofe paffions differ but in this : The maid poffefs'd , we ftrait remove ; Unfated with poetick blifs , The more w'enjoy , the more we love . Would ...
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... by that genius done ; Yet faults it has , impoffible to fhun : Th ' unchanging ftrain for want of grandeur cloys , And gives too oft the horfe - laugh mirth of boys C 3 The The fhort - legg'd verfe , and double - gingling GRUBIANA 171.
... by that genius done ; Yet faults it has , impoffible to fhun : Th ' unchanging ftrain for want of grandeur cloys , And gives too oft the horfe - laugh mirth of boys C 3 The The fhort - legg'd verfe , and double - gingling GRUBIANA 171.
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The fhort - legg'd verfe , and double - gingling found , So quick furprize us , that our heads run round ; Yet in this work pecular life prefides , And wit , for all the world to glean befides . Here pause , my muse , too daring and too ...
The fhort - legg'd verfe , and double - gingling found , So quick furprize us , that our heads run round ; Yet in this work pecular life prefides , And wit , for all the world to glean befides . Here pause , my muse , too daring and too ...
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Page 171 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 143 - Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with fcornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himfelf to rife ; Damn with faint praife, aflent with civil leer, • And, without fneering, teach the reft to fneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to ftrike...
Page 142 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 7 - Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herself may die.
Page 43 - Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.
Page 142 - And he, who now to fenfe, now nonfenfe leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning : And he, whofe Fuftian's fo fublimely bad, It is not Poetry, but Profe run mad...
Page 43 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Page 142 - Shakespeare's name ; Pretty, in Amber to observe the forms Of Hairs, or Straws, or Dirt, or Grubs, or Worms : The Thing, we know, is neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the Devil it got there.
Page 16 - E'er the first ends, the Father and the Son : Or else so needful, and exactly grac'd, That nothing is ill-suited, or ill-plac'd. True Epic's a vast World, and this a small; One has its proper beauties, and one all. Like Cynthia, one in thirty days appears, Like Saturn one, rolls round in thirty years.
Page 143 - A tim'rous foe, and a fufpicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers befieg'd> And fo obliging that he ne'er oblig'd; Who, if two wits on rival themes conteft, Approves of each, but likes the worft the beft...