Original Poems, المجلد 1A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Balfour, 1773 |
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الصفحة 9
... fails to run before the wind ! But those that ' gainst stiff gales laveering go , Must be at once refolv'd and skilful too . He would not , like foft Otho , hope prevent , But ftay'd and fuffer'd fortune to repent . Thefe virtues Galba ...
... fails to run before the wind ! But those that ' gainst stiff gales laveering go , Must be at once refolv'd and skilful too . He would not , like foft Otho , hope prevent , But ftay'd and fuffer'd fortune to repent . Thefe virtues Galba ...
الصفحة 14
... fails deny'd . The waving streamers , flags , and standards out , The merry feamens rude but chearful shout ; And last the cannons voice that shook the skies , And as it fares in fudden ecftafies , At once bereft us both of ears and ...
... fails deny'd . The waving streamers , flags , and standards out , The merry feamens rude but chearful shout ; And last the cannons voice that shook the skies , And as it fares in fudden ecftafies , At once bereft us both of ears and ...
الصفحة 26
... fail . You have already weary'd fortune fo , She cannot further be your friend or foe ; But fits all breathlefs , and admires to feel A fate fo weighty , that it ftops her wheel . In all things elfe above our humble fate , Your equal ...
... fail . You have already weary'd fortune fo , She cannot further be your friend or foe ; But fits all breathlefs , and admires to feel A fate fo weighty , that it ftops her wheel . In all things elfe above our humble fate , Your equal ...
الصفحة 42
... fails to blow , Thefe , where the wealth of nations ought to flow , Then with the Duke your Highness rul'd the day , While all the brave did his command obey , The fair and pious under you did pray . How powerful are chafte vows ! the ...
... fails to blow , Thefe , where the wealth of nations ought to flow , Then with the Duke your Highness rul'd the day , While all the brave did his command obey , The fair and pious under you did pray . How powerful are chafte vows ! the ...
الصفحة 54
... flag - staffs rife . ( + ) Fature people ] “ Examina infantium futuruf- que populus . " Plin . Jun . in Paneg . ad Traj . * Duke of Albemarle's battle , firft day . LVI . Both furl their fails , and strip them 54 POEMS UPON.
... flag - staffs rife . ( + ) Fature people ] “ Examina infantium futuruf- que populus . " Plin . Jun . in Paneg . ad Traj . * Duke of Albemarle's battle , firft day . LVI . Both furl their fails , and strip them 54 POEMS UPON.
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الصفحة 154 - Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold As if he had been born of beaten gold. The Jewish Rabbins, though their enemies, In this conclude them honest men and wise ; For 'twas their duty, all the learned think, T" espouse his cause by whom they eat and drink.
الصفحة 156 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
الصفحة 139 - tis sung, by Tiber's Brook, 130 Presage of sway from twice six vultures took. Th' admiring throng loud acclamations make, And omens of his future empire take. The sire then shook the honours of his head, And from his brows damps of oblivion shed Full on the filial...
الصفحة 141 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted bias of thy mind, By which one way to dulness 'tis inclined: Which makes thy writings lean on one side still, And, in all changes, that way bends thy will. Nor let thy mountain-belly make pretence Of likeness; thine's a tympany of sense. A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ, But sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit.
الصفحة 136 - Even I, a dunce of more renown than they, Was sent before but to prepare thy way; And, coarsely clad in Norwich drugget, came To teach the nations in thy greater name.
الصفحة 168 - 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.
الصفحة 167 - Who cost too much and did too little good. These were for laying honest David by On principles of pure good husbandry. With them joined all the haranguers of the throng That thought to get preferment by the tongue.
الصفحة 170 - His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot ; Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Such frugal virtue malice may...
الصفحة 160 - Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.
الصفحة 188 - Those are the only serpents he can write ; The height of his ambition is, we know, But to be master of a puppet-show, On that one stage his works may yet appear, And a month's harvest keeps him all the year.