The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6 |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Robert Anderson No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
againſt appear arms bear beauty beſt better blood bring cauſe charms common court crime death earth equal ev'n eyes face fair fall fame fate father fear field fight fire firſt foes force give Gods grace ground hand happy head hear heart heaven himſelf honour hope juſt kind king land laſt laws leave leſs light live look lord mean mighty mind moſt move Muſe muſt nature never night o'er once pain peace plain play pleaſe poets praiſe prince race rage reaſon reſt riſe ſaid ſame ſay ſee ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſoul ſtate ſtill ſuch tears tell thee theſe things thoſe thou thought took true turn verſe virtue whole whoſe winds write youth
Popular passages
Page 166 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 262 - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
Page 145 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 104 - These gross, half-animated lumps I leave; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are...
Page 41 - 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 231 - Lycurgus came, the surly king of Thrace ; Black was his beard, and manly was his face: The balls of his broad eyes...
Page 131 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted...
Page 213 - I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
Page 174 - MARS. Inspire the vocal brass, inspire ; The world is past its infant age : Arms and honour, Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, And kindle manly rage. Mars has look'd the sky to red ; And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6 The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Robert Anderson Volume 6 of The works of the British poets, Robert Anderson |
| Author | Robert Anderson |
| Compiled by | Robert Anderson |
| Publisher | J. & A. Arch, 1795 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 6, 2008 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |