Original Poems, Volume 1A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Balfour, 1773 - English poetry |
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Abfalom ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL Achitophel arts becauſe Belgian beſt bleſſings bleſt bold cauſe choſe church cloſe cou'd crimes curſe David defire deſign deſign'd e'en eaſe eaſy Engliſh ev'ry eyes facred fafe faid faint falſe fame fate fatire fear fecure feems fenfe fent fide fight fince fire firſt flames fleet foes fome foon forc'd foul fubjects fuch fure heav'n increaſe itſelf juſt king land laſt laws leſs loft mighty monarch moſt Muſe muſt never numbers o'er Ovid peace Phaleg pleaſe poem pow'r praiſe preſent prince promis'd reafon reft reign reſt rife royal ſecond ſecure ſeveral ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhew ſhips ſhore ſhould ſhow ſince ſkies ſky ſmall ſome ſpirits ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood ſtore ſtrong ſuch ſway theſe thoſe thou thought treaſon try'd twas uſe verſe VIRG virtue Whoſe wind wou'd
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Page 148 - Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold As if he had been born of beaten gold. The Jewish Rabbins, though their enemies, In this conclude them honest men and wise ; For 'twas their duty, all the learned think, T" espouse his cause by whom they eat and drink.
Page 150 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Page 133 - tis sung, by Tiber's Brook, 130 Presage of sway from twice six vultures took. Th' admiring throng loud acclamations make, And omens of his future empire take. The sire then shook the honours of his head, And from his brows damps of oblivion shed Full on the filial...
Page 135 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted bias of thy mind, By which one way to dulness 'tis inclined: Which makes thy writings lean on one side still, And, in all changes, that way bends thy will. Nor let thy mountain-belly make pretence Of likeness; thine's a tympany of sense. A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit.
Page 130 - 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 162 - 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 161 - Who cost too much and did too little good. These were for laying honest David by On principles of pure good husbandry. With them joined all the haranguers of the throng That thought to get preferment by the tongue.
Page 164 - His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot ; Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Such frugal virtue malice may...
Page 154 - Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.
Page 182 - Those are the only serpents he can write ; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be master of a puppet-show, On that one stage his works may yet appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year.