Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected and Arranged ...J. Roach, 1794 |
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... pow'r of face : I fit with fad civility , I read With honeft anguish , and an aching head ; And drop at laft , but in unwilling ears , 6 This faving counfel , Keep your piece nine years . Nine years ! cried he , who high in Drury - lane ...
... pow'r of face : I fit with fad civility , I read With honeft anguish , and an aching head ; And drop at laft , but in unwilling ears , 6 This faving counfel , Keep your piece nine years . Nine years ! cried he , who high in Drury - lane ...
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... Pow'r ; Seen him , uncumber'd with a venal tribe , Smile without art , and win without a bribe . Would he oblige me ? let me only find He does not think me what he thinks mankind . Come , come — at all I laugh he laughs , no doubt ; The ...
... Pow'r ; Seen him , uncumber'd with a venal tribe , Smile without art , and win without a bribe . Would he oblige me ? let me only find He does not think me what he thinks mankind . Come , come — at all I laugh he laughs , no doubt ; The ...
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... pow'r , ' Tis av'rice all , ambition is no more ! See all our nobles begging to be flaves ! See all our fools afpiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats , the courage of a whore , Are what ten thoufand envy and adore : All , all look up ...
... pow'r , ' Tis av'rice all , ambition is no more ! See all our nobles begging to be flaves ! See all our fools afpiring to be knaves ! The wit of cheats , the courage of a whore , Are what ten thoufand envy and adore : All , all look up ...
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... pow'r the Mufe's friendship can command ; No pow'r , when virtue claims it , can withfland : To Cato , Virgil pay'd one honeft line ; O let my country's friends illumine mine ! What are you thinking ? F. Faith , the thought's no fin ; I ...
... pow'r the Mufe's friendship can command ; No pow'r , when virtue claims it , can withfland : To Cato , Virgil pay'd one honeft line ; O let my country's friends illumine mine ! What are you thinking ? F. Faith , the thought's no fin ; I ...
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... pow'r a fervant , one of pow'r a friend ) To W - le guilty of fome venial fin ; What's that to you , who ne'er was out nor in ? The Prieft whofe flattery bedropt the Crown , How hurt he you ? he only ftain'd the gown . And how did ...
... pow'r a fervant , one of pow'r a friend ) To W - le guilty of fome venial fin ; What's that to you , who ne'er was out nor in ? The Prieft whofe flattery bedropt the Crown , How hurt he you ? he only ftain'd the gown . And how did ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 29 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 33 - 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...
Seite 55 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek : Wi...
Seite 22 - 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.
Seite 2 - Though restless still themselves, a lulling murmur made. Joined to the prattle of the purling rills, Were heard the lowing herds along the vale, And flocks loud-bleating from the distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves...
Seite 24 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Seite 59 - An honest man's the noblest work of God;' And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind, Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd!
Seite 13 - As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Seite 36 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Seite 26 - 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 Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?