The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 - English poetry |
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... tell you , that as I have en- deavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts , fo much more to express those thoughts with elocu- tion . The compofition of all poems is , or ought to be , of wit ; and wit in the poet , or wit - writing ( if ...
... tell you , that as I have en- deavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts , fo much more to express those thoughts with elocu- tion . The compofition of all poems is , or ought to be , of wit ; and wit in the poet , or wit - writing ( if ...
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... tell what he had pass'd before , Now fees in English fhips the Holland coaft , And parents arms , in vain , ftretch'd from th fhore . XXXIV . This careful husband had been long away , Whom his chate wife and little children mour Who on ...
... tell what he had pass'd before , Now fees in English fhips the Holland coaft , And parents arms , in vain , ftretch'd from th fhore . XXXIV . This careful husband had been long away , Whom his chate wife and little children mour Who on ...
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... tell , and kings restor❜d : But mine fhall fing of his eclips'd estate , Which , like the fun's , more wonders does afford . XCI . He drew his mighty frigates all before , On which his foe his fruitless force employs : His weak ones ...
... tell , and kings restor❜d : But mine fhall fing of his eclips'd estate , Which , like the fun's , more wonders does afford . XCI . He drew his mighty frigates all before , On which his foe his fruitless force employs : His weak ones ...
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... Tell good Barzillai thou canft fing no more , And tell thy foul fhe fhould have fled before : Or fled the with his life , and left this verfe To hang on her departed patron's hearse ? Now take thy ftcepy flight from heaven , and fee If ...
... Tell good Barzillai thou canft fing no more , And tell thy foul fhe fhould have fled before : Or fled the with his life , and left this verfe To hang on her departed patron's hearse ? Now take thy ftcepy flight from heaven , and fee If ...
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... tell what effence angels are , Or how long heaven was making Lucifer ? Oh , could the ftile that copy'd every grace , And plough'd fuch furrows for an eunuch face , Could it have form'd his everchanging will , The various piece had tir ...
... tell what effence angels are , Or how long heaven was making Lucifer ? Oh , could the ftile that copy'd every grace , And plough'd fuch furrows for an eunuch face , Could it have form'd his everchanging will , The various piece had tir ...
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Page 31 - 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 163 - 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.
Page 40 - 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.
Page 219 - And that, a sleeve embroider'd by his love. With Palamon, above the rest in place, Lycurgus came, the surly...
Page 162 - Flushed with a purple grace, He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath. He comes ! he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Page 59 - They who would prove religion by reason, do but weaken the cause which they endeavour to support, it is to take away the pillars from our faith, and to prop it only with a twig...
Page iv - Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion, of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments.
Page 35 - Law they require, let law then show her face ; They could not be 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, Those dire artificers of death shall bleed...
Page 66 - To keep it in her power to damn and save. Scripture was scarce, and as the market went, Poor laymen took salvation on content, As needy men take money, good or bad ; God's word they had not, but the priest's they had.
Page 139 - Strung each his lyre, and tun'd it high, That all the people of the sky Might know a poetess was born on earth ; And then, if ever, mortal ears Had heard the music of the spheres. And if no clust'ring swarm of bees...