The Works of the English Poets, Volume 20J. Nichols, 1779 - 432 pages |
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Page 13
... beauty of each nervous line ! Shew how your pointed fatire's sterling wit , Does only knaves or formal blockheads hit ; Who ' re gravely dull , infipidly ferene , And carry all their wifdom in their mien Whom thus expos'd , thus stripp ...
... beauty of each nervous line ! Shew how your pointed fatire's sterling wit , Does only knaves or formal blockheads hit ; Who ' re gravely dull , infipidly ferene , And carry all their wifdom in their mien Whom thus expos'd , thus stripp ...
Page 14
... beauty , or all blindness I. Critics and aged beaux of fancy chaste , Who ne'er had fire , or else whofe fire is past , Muft judge by rules what they want force to taste . I would a poet , like a miftress , try , Not by her hair , her ...
... beauty , or all blindness I. Critics and aged beaux of fancy chaste , Who ne'er had fire , or else whofe fire is past , Muft judge by rules what they want force to taste . I would a poet , like a miftress , try , Not by her hair , her ...
Page 28
... beauty entertains the fight , But baneful hemlock , and cold aconite ; In a dark grot the baleful haggard lay , Breathing black vengeance , and infecting day . ; S 15 . Bat But how deform'd , and worn with fpiteful woes , GARTH'S POE M S ..
... beauty entertains the fight , But baneful hemlock , and cold aconite ; In a dark grot the baleful haggard lay , Breathing black vengeance , and infecting day . ; S 15 . Bat But how deform'd , and worn with fpiteful woes , GARTH'S POE M S ..
Page 82
... Beauty's foft perfuading power ; Nor can bright Hebe's charms her bloom secure . Whilft meagre Pthifis gives a filent blow , Her ftrokes are fure , but her advances flow : No loud alarms , nor fierce affaults , are shown ; 140 145 150 ...
... Beauty's foft perfuading power ; Nor can bright Hebe's charms her bloom secure . Whilft meagre Pthifis gives a filent blow , Her ftrokes are fure , but her advances flow : No loud alarms , nor fierce affaults , are shown ; 140 145 150 ...
Page 95
... beauty , to increase her crowd of flaves , Rofe out of wash , as Venus out of waves ; Not yet lead - comb was on the toilet plac'd ; Not yet broad eye - brows were reduc'd by pafte ; 95 No No fhape - fmith fet up fhop , and drove ...
... beauty , to increase her crowd of flaves , Rofe out of wash , as Venus out of waves ; Not yet lead - comb was on the toilet plac'd ; Not yet broad eye - brows were reduc'd by pafte ; 95 No No fhape - fmith fet up fhop , and drove ...
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