Selected Poems: The Essay on Criticism, the Moral Essays, the DunciadLongmans, Green, 1888 - 251 pages |
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... rage , Destructive war , and all - involving age . See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Hear in all tongues consenting pœans ring ! In praise so just let every voice be join'd , And fill the general chorus of mankind ...
... rage , Destructive war , and all - involving age . See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Hear in all tongues consenting pœans ring ! In praise so just let every voice be join'd , And fill the general chorus of mankind ...
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... rage ) , 280 ' Knights , squires , and steeds must enter on the stage . ' ' So vast a throng the stage can ne'er contain . ' ' Then build a new , or act it on a plain . ' Thus critics of less judgment than caprice , Curious , not ...
... rage ) , 280 ' Knights , squires , and steeds must enter on the stage . ' ' So vast a throng the stage can ne'er contain . ' ' Then build a new , or act it on a plain . ' Thus critics of less judgment than caprice , Curious , not ...
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... rage on more provoking crimes , Nor fear a dearth in these flagitious times . No pardon vile obscenity should find , Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in ...
... rage on more provoking crimes , Nor fear a dearth in these flagitious times . No pardon vile obscenity should find , Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in ...
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... rage ! Yet shun their fault , who , scandalously nice , Will needs mistake an author into vice : All seems infected that th ' infected spy , As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye . III . LEARN then what morals critics ought to show ...
... rage ! Yet shun their fault , who , scandalously nice , Will needs mistake an author into vice : All seems infected that th ' infected spy , As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye . III . LEARN then what morals critics ought to show ...
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... rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet ' tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too . The bookful blockhead , ignorantly read , With loads of learned lumber in his head , With his own tongue still edifies his ...
... rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet ' tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too . The bookful blockhead , ignorantly read , With loads of learned lumber in his head , With his own tongue still edifies his ...
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