The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 401807 |
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... hands ; That live - long wig , which Gorgon's self might own , Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone . Behold what blessings wealth to life can lend ! And , see what comfort it affords our end . 295 In the worst inn's worst room , with ...
... hands ; That live - long wig , which Gorgon's self might own , Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone . Behold what blessings wealth to life can lend ! And , see what comfort it affords our end . 295 In the worst inn's worst room , with ...
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... hands shall make , Lo ! Cobham comes and floats them with a lake : Or cut wide views through mountains to the plain , You'll wish your hill or shelter'd seat again . 76 Ev'n in an ornament its place remark , Nor in an hermitage set Dr ...
... hands shall make , Lo ! Cobham comes and floats them with a lake : Or cut wide views through mountains to the plain , You'll wish your hill or shelter'd seat again . 76 Ev'n in an ornament its place remark , Nor in an hermitage set Dr ...
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... hands design'd ) Bid harbors open , public ways extend , Bid temples worthier of the God ascend ; Bid the broad arch the dang'rous flood contain , The mole projected break the roaring main ; 200 Back to his bounds this subject sea ...
... hands design'd ) Bid harbors open , public ways extend , Bid temples worthier of the God ascend ; Bid the broad arch the dang'rous flood contain , The mole projected break the roaring main ; 200 Back to his bounds this subject sea ...
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... hand again Rome's glories shine ; Her gods and godlike heroes rise to view And all her faded garlands bloom anew . Nor blush these studies thy regard engage ; These pleas'd the fathers ' of poetic rage ; The verse and sculpture bore an ...
... hand again Rome's glories shine ; Her gods and godlike heroes rise to view And all her faded garlands bloom anew . Nor blush these studies thy regard engage ; These pleas'd the fathers ' of poetic rage ; The verse and sculpture bore an ...
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... hands no tassels you can lure , But fulsome love for gain we can endure : For gold we love the impotent and old , 170 And heave , and pant , and kiss , and cling , for gold . Yet with embraces curses oft I mix'd , 176 Then kiss'd again ...
... hands no tassels you can lure , But fulsome love for gain we can endure : For gold we love the impotent and old , 170 And heave , and pant , and kiss , and cling , for gold . Yet with embraces curses oft I mix'd , 176 Then kiss'd again ...
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Page 132 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Page 132 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Page 131 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 136 - 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, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 126 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 36 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
Page 125 - 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.
Page 129 - 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 Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 170 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.