The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and ProseT. Davies, 1772 - 236 pages |
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... poets in general , to every difciple of the Mufes . No rules are more exceptionable than those by which we clafs the operations of the mind . Many indivi- duals reprefs the unhappy bent of their constitution , the tendency of their ...
... poets in general , to every difciple of the Mufes . No rules are more exceptionable than those by which we clafs the operations of the mind . Many indivi- duals reprefs the unhappy bent of their constitution , the tendency of their ...
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... poets are thus conftituted , and act in this manner , we need not wonder that by far the greater number of them have been condemned to poverty and distress , from Homer to Dryden ; that few of them have been ambassadours , and ...
... poets are thus conftituted , and act in this manner , we need not wonder that by far the greater number of them have been condemned to poverty and distress , from Homer to Dryden ; that few of them have been ambassadours , and ...
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... Poem on this danger and escape of his royal Highness ; a fine panegyrick , if we confider the youth of the author ... poets that went before him in giving grace and harmony to our decafyllable rhyme . We cannot reflect without furprize ...
... Poem on this danger and escape of his royal Highness ; a fine panegyrick , if we confider the youth of the author ... poets that went before him in giving grace and harmony to our decafyllable rhyme . We cannot reflect without furprize ...
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... poems which are the first and fecond in this edition of his works ; and they are totally differ- ent from the account which is given of Waller's youth by the author of his life . He fays , that , when he was but twenty - one years old ...
... poems which are the first and fecond in this edition of his works ; and they are totally differ- ent from the account which is given of Waller's youth by the author of his life . He fays , that , when he was but twenty - one years old ...
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... poems were perafed by James and Charles , and a few courtiers , foon after they were compofed ; but that they were not printed till he was about the age of thirty . We may likewife conclude , that his youth was spent in retirement ...
... poems were perafed by James and Charles , and a few courtiers , foon after they were compofed ; but that they were not printed till he was about the age of thirty . We may likewife conclude , that his youth was spent in retirement ...
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Page 59 - Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 152 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Page 50 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer : My joy, my grief, my hope, my love Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair : Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the Sun goes round.
Page 44 - Hermes' rod, And powerful, too, as either god TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS ! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day Could we (which we never can Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or would youth and beauty stay, Love hath wings, and will away. Love hath swifter wings than Time ; Change in love to heaven does climb. Gods, that never change their state, Vary oft their love and hate.
Page 221 - ... much declined by fair ladies, old age : may she live to be very old, and yet seem young, be told so by her glass, and have no aches to inform her of the truth : and when she shall appear to be mortal, may her Lord not mourn for her, but go hand in hand with her to that place where we are told there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage, that being there divorced we may all have an equal interest in her again.
Page 227 - There was no distinction of parts, no regular stops, nothing for the ear to rest upon ; but as soon as the copy began, down it went like a larum, incessantly ; and the reader was sure to be out of breath before he got to the end of it...
Page 49 - Heav'n seem'd to frame And measure out this only dame. Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care ! Over whose heads those arrows fly Of sad distrust and jealousy ; Secured in as high extreme, As if the world held none but them.
Page 66 - Such truth in love as the' antique world did know, In such a style as courts may boast of now ; Which no bold tales of gods or monsters swell, But human passions, such as with us dwell. Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to the life in each elaborate page.
Page 225 - English verse, and the first that showed us our tongue had beauty and numbers in it. Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him without being in the same rapture Lucretius is in when Epicurus comes in his way.
Page 95 - When straight the people, by no force compell'd, Nor longer from their inclination held, Break forth at once, like powder set on fire, And, with a noble rage, their King require. So the...