Faithful Memoirs of the Grubstreet Society. Now First Published by Mr. Bavius, Volume 1benefit of the Grubstreet Society, and sold, 1732 - 179 pages |
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... muse , too daring and too young Nor rafhly aim at precepts yet unfung . ⠀ Can man the mafter of the DUNCIAD teach ? And these new bays what other hopes to reach ? " Twere better judg'd , to study and explain Each ancient grace he ...
... muse , too daring and too young Nor rafhly aim at precepts yet unfung . ⠀ Can man the mafter of the DUNCIAD teach ? And these new bays what other hopes to reach ? " Twere better judg'd , to study and explain Each ancient grace he ...
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... muse , Such dull , lame metre to produce : Inftead of me , old doating fool , Thou turn'ft thy felf to ridicule . Poor poet ! for thy venal lays , You merit birch instead of bays . Howe're to do your essay justice , Confid'ring likewife ...
... muse , Such dull , lame metre to produce : Inftead of me , old doating fool , Thou turn'ft thy felf to ridicule . Poor poet ! for thy venal lays , You merit birch instead of bays . Howe're to do your essay justice , Confid'ring likewife ...
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... muses then forfook their ancient feat , To nobler domes invited by the great . The tragic mufe with comic chang'd her part ; Both nature fcorn'd , and both apply'd to art : To manual art ; which drew more glorious fcenes , And turn'd ...
... muses then forfook their ancient feat , To nobler domes invited by the great . The tragic mufe with comic chang'd her part ; Both nature fcorn'd , and both apply'd to art : To manual art ; which drew more glorious fcenes , And turn'd ...
Page 135
... muse . Thus the fkill'd tapfter to the harsher stale , To please the palate , adds the milder ale . While BAYS makes CAESAR's name ftill more ab- horr'd , And murders CAESAR Worfe than BRUTUS fword ; While SOPHONISBA dies by freedom fir ...
... muse . Thus the fkill'd tapfter to the harsher stale , To please the palate , adds the milder ale . While BAYS makes CAESAR's name ftill more ab- horr'd , And murders CAESAR Worfe than BRUTUS fword ; While SOPHONISBA dies by freedom fir ...
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Page 43 - Content with fcience in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.
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Page 16 - E'er the first ends, the Father and the Son : Or else so needful, and exactly grac'd, That nothing is ill-suited, or ill-plac'd. True Epic's a vast World, and this a small; One has its proper beauties, and one all. Like Cynthia, one in thirty days appears, Like Saturn one, rolls round in thirty years.
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