The Works of the English Poets, Volume 33W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 360 pages |
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Page ix
... Youth , as Age confummate too : Your strains are regularly bold , and please With unforc'd care , and unaffected ease , With proper thoughts , and lively images : Such as by Nature to the Ancients shewn , Fancy improves , and judgment ...
... Youth , as Age confummate too : Your strains are regularly bold , and please With unforc'd care , and unaffected ease , With proper thoughts , and lively images : Such as by Nature to the Ancients shewn , Fancy improves , and judgment ...
Page xviii
... youth maintain ; Sooth with thy wonted ease and power divine , Our fouls , and our degenerate tastes refine In judgment o'er our favourite follies fit , And foften Wisdom's harsh reproofs to Wit . Now war and arms thy mighty aid demand ...
... youth maintain ; Sooth with thy wonted ease and power divine , Our fouls , and our degenerate tastes refine In judgment o'er our favourite follies fit , And foften Wisdom's harsh reproofs to Wit . Now war and arms thy mighty aid demand ...
Page xxii
... youth he taught applaud , Pleas'd to behold the earnest of a God . 5 ΙΘ But hark , what shouts , what gathering crouds rejoice . Unftain'd their praise by any venal voice , Such as th ' Ambitious vainly think their due , When ...
... youth he taught applaud , Pleas'd to behold the earnest of a God . 5 ΙΘ But hark , what shouts , what gathering crouds rejoice . Unftain'd their praise by any venal voice , Such as th ' Ambitious vainly think their due , When ...
Page xxiii
... youth , what Column wilt thou chufe , What laurel'd Arch for thy triumphant Muse ? Though each great Ancient court thee to his shrine , Though every Laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The ...
... youth , what Column wilt thou chufe , What laurel'd Arch for thy triumphant Muse ? Though each great Ancient court thee to his shrine , Though every Laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The ...
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... youth may be made ( as it never fails to be in Executions ) a cafe of com- paffion . That I was never fo concerned about my works as to vindicate them in print , believing , if any thing thing was good , it would defend itself , and 10 ...
... youth may be made ( as it never fails to be in Executions ) a cafe of com- paffion . That I was never fo concerned about my works as to vindicate them in print , believing , if any thing thing was good , it would defend itself , and 10 ...
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