The Works of the English Poets, Volume 20J. Nichols, 1779 - 432 pages |
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... design , And manly 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 ...
... design , And manly 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 ...
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... design , And on no other business but to dine ; The Faculty had still maintain'd their sway , And intereft then had bid us but obey ; This only emulation we had known , 145 Who beft could fill his purse , and thin the town . But now ...
... design , And on no other business but to dine ; The Faculty had still maintain'd their sway , And intereft then had bid us but obey ; This only emulation we had known , 145 Who beft could fill his purse , and thin the town . But now ...
Page 114
... Ida did the gods invite , And in immortal toasting pafs'd the night , With more than nectar he the banquet blefs'd , For Wharton was the Venus of the feast . PROLOGUE PROLOGUE , DESIGNED FOR TAMER LANE . O - DAY 114 GARTH'S POEMS .
... Ida did the gods invite , And in immortal toasting pafs'd the night , With more than nectar he the banquet blefs'd , For Wharton was the Venus of the feast . PROLOGUE PROLOGUE , DESIGNED FOR TAMER LANE . O - DAY 114 GARTH'S POEMS .
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Samuel Garth Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). PROLOGUE , DESIGNED FOR TAMER LANE . O - DAY a mighty hero comes , to warm TO - DAY Your curdling blood , and bid you , Britons , arm . To valour much he owes , to virtue more ; He ...
Samuel Garth Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). PROLOGUE , DESIGNED FOR TAMER LANE . O - DAY a mighty hero comes , to warm TO - DAY Your curdling blood , and bid you , Britons , arm . To valour much he owes , to virtue more ; He ...
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... design applaud . Now with an adamant her hair the bound , With a blue ferpent girt her vest around ; Then haftes to Phlegethon's impetuous ftream , Whose pitchy waves are flakes of rolling flame ; 155 There lights a torch , and ftraight ...
... design applaud . Now with an adamant her hair the bound , With a blue ferpent girt her vest around ; Then haftes to Phlegethon's impetuous ftream , Whose pitchy waves are flakes of rolling flame ; 155 There lights a torch , and ftraight ...
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