A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Montague. HalifaxJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1793 |
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Sida xi
... lefs pleafure ; though it abounds with touches both of humourous and ferious fatire . The Threnodia is obviously defective in the irregularity of its metre . What is worse , it has neither tenderness nor dignity ; it is neither ...
... lefs pleafure ; though it abounds with touches both of humourous and ferious fatire . The Threnodia is obviously defective in the irregularity of its metre . What is worse , it has neither tenderness nor dignity ; it is neither ...
Sida 3
... lefs to him than us were given . XI . Our former chiefs , like fticklers of the war , First fought t'inflame the parties , then to poife : The quarrel lov'd , but did the cause abhor ; And did not strike to hurt , but make a noise . XII ...
... lefs to him than us were given . XI . Our former chiefs , like fticklers of the war , First fought t'inflame the parties , then to poife : The quarrel lov'd , but did the cause abhor ; And did not strike to hurt , but make a noise . XII ...
Sida 10
... lefs than wars do cease ! Peace is not freed from labour but from noife ; And war more force , but not more pains em- ploys : Such is the mighty fwiftnefs of your mind , That , like the earth , it leaves our fenfe behind , While you fo ...
... lefs than wars do cease ! Peace is not freed from labour but from noife ; And war more force , but not more pains em- ploys : Such is the mighty fwiftnefs of your mind , That , like the earth , it leaves our fenfe behind , While you fo ...
Sida 19
... lefs wealthy , but more strong : And this may prove our fecond Punic war . VI . What peace can be , where both to one pretend ? ( But they more diligent , and we more strong ) Or if a peace , it foon must have an end ; For they would ...
... lefs wealthy , but more strong : And this may prove our fecond Punic war . VI . What peace can be , where both to one pretend ? ( But they more diligent , and we more strong ) Or if a peace , it foon must have an end ; For they would ...
Sida 35
... lefs authority against me . Yet if a poem has genius , it will force its own reception in the world . For there is a sweetness in good verfe , which tickles even while it hurts ; and no man can be heartily angry with him who pleases him ...
... lefs authority against me . Yet if a poem has genius , it will force its own reception in the world . For there is a sweetness in good verfe , which tickles even while it hurts ; and no man can be heartily angry with him who pleases him ...
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Populära avsnitt
Sida 73 - Babel, which if it were possible, as it is not, to reach heaven, would come to nothing by the confusion of the workmen. For every man is building a several...
Sida 109 - Not for his fellows' ruin, but their aid Created kind, beneficent, and free, The noble image of the Deity. One portion of informing fire was...
Sida 45 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Bless'd madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy!
Sida 102 - Chase from our minds th' infernal foe, And peace, the fruit of love, bestow ; And, lest our feet should step astray, Protect and guide us in the way. Make us eternal truths receive, And practise all that we believe : Give us thyself, that we may see The Father, and the Son by thee.
Sida 49 - ... content to look on grace, Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye To tempt the terror of her front, and die. By their own arts 'tis righteously decreed...
Sida 181 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Sida 383 - ... that verse commonly which they call golden, or two substantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep the peace.
Sida 415 - Then old Age, and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him understand, After a search so painful, and so long, That all his Life he has been in the wrong.
Sida 42 - Some had in courts been great, and thrown from thence , Like fiends, were harden'd in impenitence...
Sida 54 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.