Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets Together with Several Original Poems, Volume 1Jacob Tonson, 1716 - Classical poetry |
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... fuch a Soul to use it . How often has Your Charity feem'd a Profufion , and always done with a Grace and Behaviour ftill greater ! For the Wants of many that Ad- drefs to You last no longer than the time of telling them . Wealth , if ...
... fuch a Soul to use it . How often has Your Charity feem'd a Profufion , and always done with a Grace and Behaviour ftill greater ! For the Wants of many that Ad- drefs to You last no longer than the time of telling them . Wealth , if ...
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... fuch expofitions of my Authors , as no Dutch Commen- tator will forgive me . Perhaps , in fuch particular paffages , I have thought that I difcover'd fome Beau- , ty yet undiscover'd by thofe Pedants ,: which none but a Poet cou'd have ...
... fuch expofitions of my Authors , as no Dutch Commen- tator will forgive me . Perhaps , in fuch particular paffages , I have thought that I difcover'd fome Beau- , ty yet undiscover'd by thofe Pedants ,: which none but a Poet cou'd have ...
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... fuch as he would probably have written . For , after all , a Tranflator is to > make his Author appear as charming as poffibly he can , provided he main- tains his Character , and makes him not unlike himfelf . Tranflation is a kind of ...
... fuch as he would probably have written . For , after all , a Tranflator is to > make his Author appear as charming as poffibly he can , provided he main- tains his Character , and makes him not unlike himfelf . Tranflation is a kind of ...
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... fuch Tranflators [ can easily diftinguifh the Hand which perform'd the Work , but I cannot diftinguish their Poet from another . Suppofe two Authors are equally fweet , yet there is a great diftinction to be made in fweetnefs , as in ...
... fuch Tranflators [ can easily diftinguifh the Hand which perform'd the Work , but I cannot diftinguish their Poet from another . Suppofe two Authors are equally fweet , yet there is a great diftinction to be made in fweetnefs , as in ...
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... fuch homely Expreffions . I proceed to Horace . Take him in parts , and he is chief- ly to be confider'd in his three diffe- rent Talents , as he was a Critick , a Satyrift , and a Writer of Odes . His Morals are uniform , and run ...
... fuch homely Expreffions . I proceed to Horace . Take him in parts , and he is chief- ly to be confider'd in his three diffe- rent Talents , as he was a Critick , a Satyrift , and a Writer of Odes . His Morals are uniform , and run ...
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Page 152 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 148 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp and feast and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry, — Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 145 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 24 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Page 159 - Twould stay, and run again, and stay, For it was nimbler much than hinds; And trod as if on the four winds. I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness, And all the springtime of the year It only loved to be there.
Page 166 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and, with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky : So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walk'd the waves.
Page 6 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted...
Page 2 - Heywood and Shirley were but types of thee, Thou last great prophet of tautology: Even I, a dunce of more renown than they, ^ Was sent before but to prepare thy way: And coarsely clad in Norwich drugget came To teach the nations in thy greater name.
Page 153 - Softly on my eyelids laid; And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 158 - Is dyed in such a purple grain. There is not such another in The world to offer for their sin.