The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Том 401807 |
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... dull , flat falsehood , serves for policy ; And in the cunning , truth itself's a lie ; Unthought - of frailties cheat us in the wise ; The fool lies hid in inconsistencies , See the same man in vigor , in the gout ; Alone , in company ...
... dull , flat falsehood , serves for policy ; And in the cunning , truth itself's a lie ; Unthought - of frailties cheat us in the wise ; The fool lies hid in inconsistencies , See the same man in vigor , in the gout ; Alone , in company ...
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... dull Cits , and joins ( to please the fair ) The well - bred cuckolds in St. James's air : First for his son a gay commission buys , Who drinks , whores , fights , and in a duel dies : 390 395 His daughter flaunts a Viscount's tawdry ...
... dull Cits , and joins ( to please the fair ) The well - bred cuckolds in St. James's air : First for his son a gay commission buys , Who drinks , whores , fights , and in a duel dies : 390 395 His daughter flaunts a Viscount's tawdry ...
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... dull reversion of a throne ; Each would the sweets of sov'reign rule devour , While Discord waits upon divided pow'r . 185 As stubborn steers , by brawny ploughmen broke , And join'd reluctant to the galling yoke , Alike disdain with ...
... dull reversion of a throne ; Each would the sweets of sov'reign rule devour , While Discord waits upon divided pow'r . 185 As stubborn steers , by brawny ploughmen broke , And join'd reluctant to the galling yoke , Alike disdain with ...
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... dull rogue ! will think your price too much : ' Not , Sir , if you revise it , and retouch . ' All my demurs but double his attacks ; At last he whispers , Do , and we go snacks . ' Glad of a quarrel , strait I clap the door ; ' Sir ...
... dull rogue ! will think your price too much : ' Not , Sir , if you revise it , and retouch . ' All my demurs but double his attacks ; At last he whispers , Do , and we go snacks . ' Glad of a quarrel , strait I clap the door ; ' Sir ...
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... dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The distant threats of vengeance on his head , The blow unfelt , the tear he never shed ; The tale reviv'd , the lie so oft o'erthrown , Th ' imputed trash , and dulness not his own ; The ...
... dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The distant threats of vengeance on his head , The blow unfelt , the tear he never shed ; The tale reviv'd , the lie so oft o'erthrown , Th ' imputed trash , and dulness not his own ; The ...
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Сторінка 132 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Сторінка 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Сторінка 132 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Сторінка 131 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Сторінка 136 - 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, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Сторінка 126 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Сторінка 36 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
Сторінка 125 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Сторінка 129 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Сторінка 170 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.