Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1801 |
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الصفحة i
... in this case have been deprived of one of the greatest or naments that ever adorned the profession . The year before he left the University , he wrote a Athen . Oxon . poem on the death of Lord Hastings , a performance THE LIFE OF.
... in this case have been deprived of one of the greatest or naments that ever adorned the profession . The year before he left the University , he wrote a Athen . Oxon . poem on the death of Lord Hastings , a performance THE LIFE OF.
الصفحة ii
... Lord Hastings , a performance , some of his critics say , very unworthy of himself , and of the astonishing genius he afterwards discovered . That Mr. Dryden had at this time no fixed prin- ciples , either in religion or politics , is ...
... Lord Hastings , a performance , some of his critics say , very unworthy of himself , and of the astonishing genius he afterwards discovered . That Mr. Dryden had at this time no fixed prin- ciples , either in religion or politics , is ...
الصفحة ix
... Lord Rochester ( and the Duchess of Portsmouth . As for Rochester , he had not genius enough to enter the lists with Dryden , so he fell upon another method of revenge , and meanly hired bravoes to assault him . In 1680 came out a ...
... Lord Rochester ( and the Duchess of Portsmouth . As for Rochester , he had not genius enough to enter the lists with Dryden , so he fell upon another method of revenge , and meanly hired bravoes to assault him . In 1680 came out a ...
الصفحة xvii
... Lord Jeffreys , son of Lord Chancellor Jeffreys , a name dedicated to in- famy , with some of his rakish companions , riding by , asked whose funeral it was ? and being told it was Mr. Dryden's , he pro ested he should not be buried in ...
... Lord Jeffreys , son of Lord Chancellor Jeffreys , a name dedicated to in- famy , with some of his rakish companions , riding by , asked whose funeral it was ? and being told it was Mr. Dryden's , he pro ested he should not be buried in ...
الصفحة xviii
... Lord Halifax and the Bishop , and endeavoured to excuse his mother by re- lating the truth . Three days after , the undertaker , having received no orders , waited on the Lord Jef- freys , who pretended it was a drunken frolick : that ...
... Lord Halifax and the Bishop , and endeavoured to excuse his mother by re- lating the truth . Three days after , the undertaker , having received no orders , waited on the Lord Jef- freys , who pretended it was a drunken frolick : that ...
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الصفحة 205 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying ; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
الصفحة 89 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights, and, when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am ; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task : my doubts are done ; What more could fright my faith than Three in One...
الصفحة 202 - Timotheus, placed on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touched the lyre: The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above, Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form...
الصفحة 27 - For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
الصفحة 207 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down.
الصفحة 27 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
الصفحة 185 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade: In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale; Love's kingdom...
الصفحة 41 - tis to rule, for that's a monarch's end. They call my tenderness of blood my fear ; Though manly tempers can the longest bear. Yet, since they will divert my native course, 'Tis time to show I am not good by force.
الصفحة 203 - Flush'd 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...
الصفحة 36 - Behold th' approaching cliffs of Albion : It is no longer motion cheats your view, As you meet it, the land approacheth you. The land returns, and, in the white it wears, The marks of penitence and sorrow bears.