The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 39-40Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 - English poetry |
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... o'er with old and empty rules , Stale memorandums of the schools : For Learning's mighty treasures look In that deep grave a book ; Think that she there does all her treasures hide , And that her troubled ghost still haunts there fince ...
... o'er with old and empty rules , Stale memorandums of the schools : For Learning's mighty treasures look In that deep grave a book ; Think that she there does all her treasures hide , And that her troubled ghost still haunts there fince ...
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... o'er their skin , So he wore his within , Made up of virtue and tranfparent innocence ; And though he oft ' renew'd the fight , And almost got priority of fight , He ne'er could overcome her quite ( In pieces cut B 3 He ODE TO SIR ...
... o'er their skin , So he wore his within , Made up of virtue and tranfparent innocence ; And though he oft ' renew'd the fight , And almost got priority of fight , He ne'er could overcome her quite ( In pieces cut B 3 He ODE TO SIR ...
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... o'er the plain How mighty a profelyte you gain ! How noble a reprifal on the great ! How is the Mufe luxuriant grown ! Whene'er fhe takes this flight ,. She foars clear out of fight . Thefe are the paradifes of her own : ( The Pegasus ...
... o'er the plain How mighty a profelyte you gain ! How noble a reprifal on the great ! How is the Mufe luxuriant grown ! Whene'er fhe takes this flight ,. She foars clear out of fight . Thefe are the paradifes of her own : ( The Pegasus ...
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... o'er with tranfitory praise , And water - colours of thefe days : Thefe days ! where e'en th ' extravagance of poetry Is at a lofs for figures to exprefs Mens ' folly , whimfies , and inconftancy , And by a faint description makes them ...
... o'er with tranfitory praise , And water - colours of thefe days : Thefe days ! where e'en th ' extravagance of poetry Is at a lofs for figures to exprefs Mens ' folly , whimfies , and inconftancy , And by a faint description makes them ...
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... o'er with modern pedantry , With a long fweeping train Of comments and difputes , ridiculous and vain , All of old cut with a new dye : How foon have you reftor'd her charms And rid her of her lumber and her books , Dreft her again ...
... o'er with modern pedantry , With a long fweeping train Of comments and difputes , ridiculous and vain , All of old cut with a new dye : How foon have you reftor'd her charms And rid her of her lumber and her books , Dreft her again ...
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