Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1797 |
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... pow'r to make men wise ; 555 For , dropt in blear thick - sighted eyes , They'd make them see in darkest night , Like owls , tho ' purblind in the light . By help of these ( as he profest ) He had First Matter seen undrest : He took her ...
... pow'r to make men wise ; 555 For , dropt in blear thick - sighted eyes , They'd make them see in darkest night , Like owls , tho ' purblind in the light . By help of these ( as he profest ) He had First Matter seen undrest : He took her ...
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... pow'r of Gospel - preaching Min❜ster ? Have they invented tones to win 485 The women and make them draw in The men , as Indians with a female Tame elephant inveigle the male ? Have they told Prov'dence what it must do , Whom to avoid ...
... pow'r of Gospel - preaching Min❜ster ? Have they invented tones to win 485 The women and make them draw in The men , as Indians with a female Tame elephant inveigle the male ? Have they told Prov'dence what it must do , Whom to avoid ...
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... pow'r to levy horse and men , " L 605 610 Only to bring them back agen ? For this did many , many a mile , Ride manfully in rank and file , With papers in their hats , that show'd As if they to the pill'ry rode ? Have all these courses ...
... pow'r to levy horse and men , " L 605 610 Only to bring them back agen ? For this did many , many a mile , Ride manfully in rank and file , With papers in their hats , that show'd As if they to the pill'ry rode ? Have all these courses ...
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... pow'r to kill , Argues your pow'r above your will ; And that your will and pow'r have less Than both might have of selfishness . This pow'r , which now alive , with dread He trembles at , if he were dead Wou'd no more keep the slave in ...
... pow'r to kill , Argues your pow'r above your will ; And that your will and pow'r have less Than both might have of selfishness . This pow'r , which now alive , with dread He trembles at , if he were dead Wou'd no more keep the slave in ...
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... pow'r to hang him when you please ; This has been often done by some 1085 Of our great conqu'rors , you know whom ; 1090 And has by most of us been held Wise justice , and to some reveal'd : For words and promises , that yoke The ...
... pow'r to hang him when you please ; This has been often done by some 1085 Of our great conqu'rors , you know whom ; 1090 And has by most of us been held Wise justice , and to some reveal'd : For words and promises , that yoke The ...
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Page 16 - He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H...
Page 210 - Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil : For Saints may do the same things by The Spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do ; And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the Saints and Wicked vary.
Page 14 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...
Page 14 - Though not a man of them knew wherefore ; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick, Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Page 30 - Unless they graz'd there's not one word Of their provision on record ; Which made some confidently write, They had no stomachs but to fight.
Page 39 - He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; 550 What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and
Page 24 - Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox By...
Page 22 - Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with doubts profound, Only to show with how small pain The sores of Faith are cured again ; Although by woful proof we find They always leave a scar behind.
Page 78 - And what would serve, if those were gone, To make it orthodox ?" — " Our own." " What makes morality a crime, The most notorious of the time ; Morality, which both the saints And wicked too cry out against ?" — " 'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin ; And therefore no true saint allows They shall be...
Page 107 - Is marry'd only to a thumb (As wise as ringing of a pig, That us'd to break up ground and dig), The bride to nothing but her will, That nulls the after-marriage still : Some were for th...