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... EDITION , CORRECTED . To which is now added , AN INDEX . Satyra quidem tota nostra est : in qua primus insignem laudem adeptus est Lucilius ; qui quosdam ita deditos sibi adhuc habet amatores , ut eum , non ejusdem modo operis autoribus ...
... EDITION , CORRECTED . To which is now added , AN INDEX . Satyra quidem tota nostra est : in qua primus insignem laudem adeptus est Lucilius ; qui quosdam ita deditos sibi adhuc habet amatores , ut eum , non ejusdem modo operis autoribus ...
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... edition of Boccace's tales , printed at Florence in 1573 , a privilege of Gregory XIII . who says , that in this he follows the steps of Pius V. his predecessor , of blessed memory , and which threatens with severe punish- ments , all ...
... edition of Boccace's tales , printed at Florence in 1573 , a privilege of Gregory XIII . who says , that in this he follows the steps of Pius V. his predecessor , of blessed memory , and which threatens with severe punish- ments , all ...
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... edition of the Dispensary , that was not for the better . " The vivacity of his conversation made Garth an universal favourite both with Whigs and Tories , when party- rage ran high . mortuus , anno , in hæc incidit tempora , ut 26 ...
... edition of the Dispensary , that was not for the better . " The vivacity of his conversation made Garth an universal favourite both with Whigs and Tories , when party- rage ran high . mortuus , anno , in hæc incidit tempora , ut 26 ...
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... author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the present edition , I shall speak no more of it . The * Page 78 . The Imitation of Spenser is the second ; it is 28 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... author's works that is loose and indecent , and as therefore I wish it had been omitted in the present edition , I shall speak no more of it . The * Page 78 . The Imitation of Spenser is the second ; it is 28 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... editions it used to be printed at home ; but this expression seeming to exclude a future existence , ( as , to speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , ) it was altered to from home ; not only with great injury to the harmony of ...
... editions it used to be printed at home ; but this expression seeming to exclude a future existence , ( as , to speak the plain truth , it was intended to do , ) it was altered to from home ; not only with great injury to the harmony of ...
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Page 236 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne ,View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer...
Page 77 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 59 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 111 - Touch their immortal harps of golden wires, With those just spirits that wear victorious palms, Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly ; That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise ; As once we did, till disproportion'd sin Jarr'd against nature's chime, and with harsh din Broke the fair music that all creatures made To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'J In perfect diapason, whilst they stood In first obedience, and their state of good.
Page 249 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Page 249 - Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and...
Page 205 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 70 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 64 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 94 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.