The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... stands first in the list of refiners ; and , for aught I know , last too ; for I quef- tion , whether in Charles the ... standing use and ornament : and this he did fo fuccefsfully , that his language is now as fresh as it was at first ...
... stands first in the list of refiners ; and , for aught I know , last too ; for I quef- tion , whether in Charles the ... standing use and ornament : and this he did fo fuccefsfully , that his language is now as fresh as it was at first ...
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... stands , But power to grieve , exempt from thy commands . If thou lament , thou muft do fo alone ; Grief in thy prefence can lay hold of none . Yet ftill perfift the memory to love Of that great Mercury of our mighty Jove : Who , by the ...
... stands , But power to grieve , exempt from thy commands . If thou lament , thou muft do fo alone ; Grief in thy prefence can lay hold of none . Yet ftill perfift the memory to love Of that great Mercury of our mighty Jove : Who , by the ...
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... stand amaz'd , and , gazing on the Fair , Lofe thought of what themselves or others are : Ambition lofe ; and have no other scope , Save Carlisle's favour to employ their hope , * The Thracian could ( though all thofe tales were true ...
... stand amaz'd , and , gazing on the Fair , Lofe thought of what themselves or others are : Ambition lofe ; and have no other scope , Save Carlisle's favour to employ their hope , * The Thracian could ( though all thofe tales were true ...
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... stand , Like fome well - marshal'd and obfequious band , Amphion fo made stones and timber leap Into fair figures , from a confus'd heap : And in the fymmetry of her parts is found A power , like that of harmony in found . E 『; Ye Ye ...
... stand , Like fome well - marshal'd and obfequious band , Amphion fo made stones and timber leap Into fair figures , from a confus'd heap : And in the fymmetry of her parts is found A power , like that of harmony in found . E 『; Ye Ye ...
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... stands the facred mark Of noble Sidney's birth ; when such benign , Such more than mortal - making stars did shine ; That there they cannot but for ever prove The monument and pledge of humble love : His humble love , whose hope fhall ...
... stands the facred mark Of noble Sidney's birth ; when such benign , Such more than mortal - making stars did shine ; That there they cannot but for ever prove The monument and pledge of humble love : His humble love , whose hope fhall ...
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Page 232 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 231 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Page 79 - Hermes' rod, And powerful, too, as either god TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS ! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day Could we (which we never can Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or would youth and beauty stay, Love hath wings, and will away. Love hath swifter wings than Time ; Change in love to heaven does climb. Gods, that never change their state, Vary oft their love and hate.
Page 99 - Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 137 - A race unconquer'd, by their clime made bold, The Caledonians, arm'd with want and cold, Have, by a fate indulgent to your fame, Been from all ages kept for you to tame. Whom the old Roman wall...
Page 135 - Whether this portion of the world were rent By the rude ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure design'd To be the sacred refuge of mankind.
Page 87 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Page 10 - Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his rhymes, which are always good, and very often the better for being new.
Page 136 - Gold, though the heaviest metal, hither swims. Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow, We plough the deep, and reap what others sow.
Page 7 - Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him without being in the same rapture Lucretius is in when Epicurus comes in his way.