The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Том 401807 |
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... heart , His comprehensive head ! all int'rests weigh'd , All Europe sav'd , yet Britain not betray'd . He thanks you not , his pride is in Picquette , 85 New - Market fame , and judgment at a bett , What made ( say Montaigne , or more ...
... heart , His comprehensive head ! all int'rests weigh'd , All Europe sav'd , yet Britain not betray'd . He thanks you not , his pride is in Picquette , 85 New - Market fame , and judgment at a bett , What made ( say Montaigne , or more ...
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... , -190 And now the punk applaud , and now the friar . Thus with each gift of Nature and of Art , And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all , from no one vice exempt 16 Epist . I. Part III . MORAL ESSAYS .
... , -190 And now the punk applaud , and now the friar . Thus with each gift of Nature and of Art , And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all , from no one vice exempt 16 Epist . I. Part III . MORAL ESSAYS .
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... heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; 205 He dies , sad outcast of each church and state , And , harder still , flagitious , yet not great . Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule ? ' Twas all for fear the knaves ...
... heart approves ; A rebel to the very king he loves ; 205 He dies , sad outcast of each church and state , And , harder still , flagitious , yet not great . Ask you why Wharton broke through ev'ry rule ? ' Twas all for fear the knaves ...
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... heart alarm'd , Aw'd without virtue , without beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes , Less wit than mimic , more a wit than wise ; Strange graces still , and stranger flights , she had , Was just not ugly , and was ...
... heart alarm'd , Aw'd without virtue , without beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes , Less wit than mimic , more a wit than wise ; Strange graces still , and stranger flights , she had , Was just not ugly , and was ...
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... heart . See Sin in state , majestically drunk ; Proud as a peeress , prouder as a punk ; Chaste to her husband , frank to all beside , A teeming mistress , but a barren bride . What then ? let blood and body bear the fault , Her head's ...
... heart . See Sin in state , majestically drunk ; Proud as a peeress , prouder as a punk ; Chaste to her husband , frank to all beside , A teeming mistress , but a barren bride . What then ? let blood and body bear the fault , Her head's ...
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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,.