The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... just fo much as lets the fun appear ; Heaven then would feem thy image , and reflect Those fable vestments , and that bright aspect . A spark of virtue by the deepest shade Of fad adversity , is fairer made ; Nor lefs advantage doth thy ...
... just fo much as lets the fun appear ; Heaven then would feem thy image , and reflect Those fable vestments , and that bright aspect . A spark of virtue by the deepest shade Of fad adversity , is fairer made ; Nor lefs advantage doth thy ...
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... Just distance keeps from his desired Palm : But when the wind her ravish'd branches throws Into his arms , and mingles all their boughs ; Though loth he seems her tender leaves to prefs , More loth he is that friendly storm should cease ...
... Just distance keeps from his desired Palm : But when the wind her ravish'd branches throws Into his arms , and mingles all their boughs ; Though loth he seems her tender leaves to prefs , More loth he is that friendly storm should cease ...
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... just Apollo , president of verse ; Highly concerned that the Muse should bring Damage to one , whom he had taught to fing ; Thus he advis'd me : " On yon aged tree " Hang up thy lute , and hie thee to the fea ; " That there with wonders ...
... just Apollo , president of verse ; Highly concerned that the Muse should bring Damage to one , whom he had taught to fing ; Thus he advis'd me : " On yon aged tree " Hang up thy lute , and hie thee to the fea ; " That there with wonders ...
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... just disdain Of her neglect , above that passion borne , Did pride to pride oppose , and scorn to scorn . Now the relents ; but all too late , to move A heart directed to a nobler love : The scales are turn'd , her kindness weighs no ...
... just disdain Of her neglect , above that passion borne , Did pride to pride oppose , and scorn to scorn . Now the relents ; but all too late , to move A heart directed to a nobler love : The scales are turn'd , her kindness weighs no ...
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... how you hid in peace A mind proportion'd to fuch things as thefe ; How fuch a ruling fpirit you could restrain , And practise firft over yourfelf to reign . Your Your private life did a just pattern give , How 138 WALLER'S POEMS .
... how you hid in peace A mind proportion'd to fuch things as thefe ; How fuch a ruling fpirit you could restrain , And practise firft over yourfelf to reign . Your Your private life did a just pattern give , How 138 WALLER'S POEMS .
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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.