The Works of the English Poets, Volume 20J. Nichols, 1779 - 432 pages |
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... fame of the defects of the author , he would need no juftification against the cavils of fome furious ' critics , who , I am fure , would have been better pleased if they had met with more faults . Their grand objection is , that the ...
... fame of the defects of the author , he would need no juftification against the cavils of fome furious ' critics , who , I am fure , would have been better pleased if they had met with more faults . Their grand objection is , that the ...
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... frame ; Ver . 19 . VARIATIONS . -they ftill purfued . They find her dubious now , and then as plain , Here the ' s too fparing ; there profufely vain . 35 How How the fame nerves are fashion'd to sustain The greatest GARTH'S POEMS .
... frame ; Ver . 19 . VARIATIONS . -they ftill purfued . They find her dubious now , and then as plain , Here the ' s too fparing ; there profufely vain . 35 How How the fame nerves are fashion'd to sustain The greatest GARTH'S POEMS .
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Samuel Garth Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). How the fame nerves are fashion'd to sustain The greatest pleasure and the greatest pain ; Why bilious juice a golden light puts on , And floods of chyle in filver currents run ...
Samuel Garth Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). How the fame nerves are fashion'd to sustain The greatest pleasure and the greatest pain ; Why bilious juice a golden light puts on , And floods of chyle in filver currents run ...
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... Fame the acts of demi - gods enrolls ; And , as the rent - records in pieces fell , Each scrap did some immortal action tell . 40 This fhow'd , how fix'd as fate Torquatus ftood , That , the fam'd paffage of the Granic flood ; The ...
... Fame the acts of demi - gods enrolls ; And , as the rent - records in pieces fell , Each scrap did some immortal action tell . 40 This fhow'd , how fix'd as fate Torquatus ftood , That , the fam'd paffage of the Granic flood ; The ...
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... fame ? Then let crabs - eyes with pearl for virtue try , Or Highgate - hill with lofty Pindus vie ; 195 So glow - worms may compare with Titan's beams , And Hare - court pump with Aganippe's streams . Our manufactures now they meanly ...
... fame ? Then let crabs - eyes with pearl for virtue try , Or Highgate - hill with lofty Pindus vie ; 195 So glow - worms may compare with Titan's beams , And Hare - court pump with Aganippe's streams . Our manufactures now they meanly ...
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