Original Poems, المجلد 1A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Balfour, 1773 |
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... hope appear , Harmonious Congreve , and forbid our fear ! Congreve ! whofe fancy's unexhausted store Have giv'n already much , and promis'd more . Congreve shall still preserve thy fame alive ; And Dryden's Mufe fhall in his friend ...
... hope appear , Harmonious Congreve , and forbid our fear ! Congreve ! whofe fancy's unexhausted store Have giv'n already much , and promis'd more . Congreve shall still preserve thy fame alive ; And Dryden's Mufe fhall in his friend ...
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... hope their bold attempt , Who ruin'd crowns , would coronets exempt : For when , by their designing leaders taught , To strike at pow'r , which for themselves they fought , The vulgar gull'd into rebellion , arm'd , Their blood to ...
... hope their bold attempt , Who ruin'd crowns , would coronets exempt : For when , by their designing leaders taught , To strike at pow'r , which for themselves they fought , The vulgar gull'd into rebellion , arm'd , Their blood to ...
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... hope prevent , But ftay'd and fuffer'd fortune to repent . Thefe virtues Galba in a stranger fought ; And Pifo to adopted empire brought . How fhall I then my doubtful thoughts exprefs , That muft his fuff'rings both regret and bless ...
... hope prevent , But ftay'd and fuffer'd fortune to repent . Thefe virtues Galba in a stranger fought ; And Pifo to adopted empire brought . How fhall I then my doubtful thoughts exprefs , That muft his fuff'rings both regret and bless ...
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... hope , but not how well they love ; The Mufes ( who your early courtship boast , Though now your flames are with their beauty loft ) Yet watch their time , that , if you have forgot They were your miftreffes , the world may not : Decay ...
... hope , but not how well they love ; The Mufes ( who your early courtship boast , Though now your flames are with their beauty loft ) Yet watch their time , that , if you have forgot They were your miftreffes , the world may not : Decay ...
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... hope they are neither improper , nor altogether unclegant , in verfe ; and , in this , Horace will again defend me . " Et nova , fictaque nuper , habebunt verba fidem , fi " Graeco fonte cadunt , parce detorta " ----- The inference is ...
... hope they are neither improper , nor altogether unclegant , in verfe ; and , in this , Horace will again defend me . " Et nova , fictaque nuper , habebunt verba fidem , fi " Graeco fonte cadunt , parce detorta " ----- The inference is ...
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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.