Original Poems, المجلد 1A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Balfour, 1773 |
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... Grown old in rhime , but charming e'en in years . Great Dryden next ! whofe tuneful mufe affords The sweetest numbers , and the fittest words . Whether in comic founds , or tragic airs She forms her voice , she moves our smiles and ...
... Grown old in rhime , but charming e'en in years . Great Dryden next ! whofe tuneful mufe affords The sweetest numbers , and the fittest words . Whether in comic founds , or tragic airs She forms her voice , she moves our smiles and ...
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... grow . VII . No borrow'd bays his temples did adorn , But to our crown he did fresh jewels bring ; Nor was his virtue poison'd , foon as born , With the too early thoughts of being king . VIII . Fortune ( that easy mistress to the young ...
... grow . VII . No borrow'd bays his temples did adorn , But to our crown he did fresh jewels bring ; Nor was his virtue poison'd , foon as born , With the too early thoughts of being king . VIII . Fortune ( that easy mistress to the young ...
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... grow . XX . When paft all off'rings to Feretrian Jove , He Mars depos'd , and arms to gowns made yield ; Succefsful councils did him foon approve As fit for clofe intrigues , as open field . XXI . To fuppliant Holland he vouchfaf'd a ...
... grow . XX . When paft all off'rings to Feretrian Jove , He Mars depos'd , and arms to gowns made yield ; Succefsful councils did him foon approve As fit for clofe intrigues , as open field . XXI . To fuppliant Holland he vouchfaf'd a ...
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John Dryden. We figh'd to hear the fair Iberian bride , Muft grow a lily to the lily's fide , While our crofs ftars deny'd us Charles his bed , Whom our first flames and virgin love did wed . For his long abfence church and state did ...
John Dryden. We figh'd to hear the fair Iberian bride , Muft grow a lily to the lily's fide , While our crofs ftars deny'd us Charles his bed , Whom our first flames and virgin love did wed . For his long abfence church and state did ...
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... ftomach labours thus , At first embracing what it straight doth crush . Wife leaches will not vain receipts obtrude , While growing pains pronounce the humours crude ; Deaf to complaints they wait upon the ill , Till 42 POEMS UPON.
... ftomach labours thus , At first embracing what it straight doth crush . Wife leaches will not vain receipts obtrude , While growing pains pronounce the humours crude ; Deaf to complaints they wait upon the ill , Till 42 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.