The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1760 - English poetry |
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... sense , Explain'd by unaffected eloquence . What can you ( Reverend Levi ) here take ill ? Men ftill had faults , and men will have them ftill ; He that hath none , and lives as angels do , Must be an angel ; but what's that to you ...
... sense , Explain'd by unaffected eloquence . What can you ( Reverend Levi ) here take ill ? Men ftill had faults , and men will have them ftill ; He that hath none , and lives as angels do , Must be an angel ; but what's that to you ...
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... sense . " Twas not the hafty product of a day , But the well - ripen'd fruit of wife delay . He , like a patient angler , ere he ftrook , Would let him play a while upon the hook . Our healthful food the ftomach labours thus , At first ...
... sense . " Twas not the hafty product of a day , But the well - ripen'd fruit of wife delay . He , like a patient angler , ere he ftrook , Would let him play a while upon the hook . Our healthful food the ftomach labours thus , At first ...
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... sense of all the reft . But in this neceffity of our rhymes , I have always found the couplet verse most easy , though not fo proper for this occafion for there the work is fooner at an end , every two lines con- cluding the labour of ...
... sense of all the reft . But in this neceffity of our rhymes , I have always found the couplet verse most easy , though not fo proper for this occafion for there the work is fooner at an end , every two lines con- cluding the labour of ...
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... sense ; For words and wit did anciently agree , And Tully was no fool , though this man be : At bar abufive , on the bench unable , Knave on the woolfack , fop at council - table . These are the grievances of fuch fools as would Be ...
... sense ; For words and wit did anciently agree , And Tully was no fool , though this man be : At bar abufive , on the bench unable , Knave on the woolfack , fop at council - table . These are the grievances of fuch fools as would Be ...
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... sense ; And ' tis a miracle we may suppose , No naftiness offends his fkilful nofe ; Which from all ftink can with peculiar art Extract perfume and effence from a f --- t : Expecting fupper is his great delight ; He toils all day but to ...
... sense ; And ' tis a miracle we may suppose , No naftiness offends his fkilful nofe ; Which from all ftink can with peculiar art Extract perfume and effence from a f --- t : Expecting fupper is his great delight ; He toils all day but to ...
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Page 177 - 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 xlii - Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Page 63 - The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in the poet, or Wit writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction), is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after; or, without metaphor, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.
Page 163 - Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful harp had strung And Heaven had wanted one immortal song.
Page 158 - An idol monarch which their hands had made; Thought they might ruin him they could create Or melt him to that golden calf — a State.
Page 195 - 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 162 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Page 313 - Tis some relief, that points not clearly known, Without much hazard, may be let alone...
Page 184 - And all his pow'r against himself employs. He gives, and let him give my right away: But why should he his own, and yours betray? He, only he can make the nation bleed, And he alone from my revenge is freed. Take then my tears...
Page 216 - 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.