Original Poems, Volume 1A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Balfour, 1773 - English poetry |
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... fuch heroic hafte , As if on wings of victory he flew . XIV . He fought fecure of fortune as of fame : Still by new maps the island might be shewn Of conquefts , which he ftrew'd where - e'er he came , Thick as the Galaxy with ftars is ...
... fuch heroic hafte , As if on wings of victory he flew . XIV . He fought fecure of fortune as of fame : Still by new maps the island might be shewn Of conquefts , which he ftrew'd where - e'er he came , Thick as the Galaxy with ftars is ...
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... fuch heroic virtue heav'n fets out , The stars , like commons , fullenly obey ; Because it drains them when it comes about , And therefore is a tax they feldom pay . XXVIII . From this high fpring our foreign conquefts flow , Which yet ...
... fuch heroic virtue heav'n fets out , The stars , like commons , fullenly obey ; Because it drains them when it comes about , And therefore is a tax they feldom pay . XXVIII . From this high fpring our foreign conquefts flow , Which yet ...
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... fuch freedom did enjoy , As winds at fea , that use it to destroy : Blind as the Cyclops , and as wild as he , They own'd a lawlefs favage liberty , Like that our painted ancestors fo priz'd , Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz ...
... fuch freedom did enjoy , As winds at fea , that use it to destroy : Blind as the Cyclops , and as wild as he , They own'd a lawlefs favage liberty , Like that our painted ancestors fo priz'd , Ere empire's arts their breasts had civiliz ...
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... fuch adverfities to fcepters train'd , The name of Great his famous grandfire gain'd : Who yet a king alone in name and right , With hunger , cold , and angry Jove did fight ; Shock'd by a covenanting league's vaft pow'rs , As boly and ...
... fuch adverfities to fcepters train'd , The name of Great his famous grandfire gain'd : Who yet a king alone in name and right , With hunger , cold , and angry Jove did fight ; Shock'd by a covenanting league's vaft pow'rs , As boly and ...
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... fuch fond chimaera's we purfue , As fancy frames for fancy to fubdue : But when ourselves to action we betake , It fhuns the mint like gold that chymifts make . How hard was then his talk , at once to be What in the body natural we fee ...
... fuch fond chimaera's we purfue , As fancy frames for fancy to fubdue : But when ourselves to action we betake , It fhuns the mint like gold that chymifts make . How hard was then his talk , at once to be What in the body natural we fee ...
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Page 154 - 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 156 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Page 139 - 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 141 - 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 136 - 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 168 - 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 167 - 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 170 - His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot ; Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Such frugal virtue malice may...
Page 160 - 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 188 - 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.