The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Page 57
... delight me , and an author please , Ev'n here I fing , while Pope fupplies the theme , Show my own love , though not increase his fame . A TRANSLATION of part of the firft Canto of the RAPE of the Lock , into Leonine Verfe , after the ...
... delight me , and an author please , Ev'n here I fing , while Pope fupplies the theme , Show my own love , though not increase his fame . A TRANSLATION of part of the firft Canto of the RAPE of the Lock , into Leonine Verfe , after the ...
Page 59
... delight . Come , country goddess , come ; nor thou sufficé , But bring thy mountain - fifter , Exercise . Call'd by thy lovely voice , the turns her pace , Her winding horn proclaims the finish'd chace ; She mounts the rocks , the fkims ...
... delight . Come , country goddess , come ; nor thou sufficé , But bring thy mountain - fifter , Exercise . Call'd by thy lovely voice , the turns her pace , Her winding horn proclaims the finish'd chace ; She mounts the rocks , the fkims ...
Page 61
... delighted fly , Some rife , and circling light to perch again ; A pleasing murmur hums along the plain . So , when a stage invites to pageant shows , ( If great and small are like ) appear the beaux ; In boxes fome with spruce ...
... delighted fly , Some rife , and circling light to perch again ; A pleasing murmur hums along the plain . So , when a stage invites to pageant shows , ( If great and small are like ) appear the beaux ; In boxes fome with spruce ...
Page 78
... delight of human kind ! Heavenly born , and bred on high , To crown the favorites of the sky With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , O whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek contented head ; What happy ...
... delight of human kind ! Heavenly born , and bred on high , To crown the favorites of the sky With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , O whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek contented head ; What happy ...
Page 80
... delight ; While filver waters glide along , To please my ear , and court my fong : I'll lift my voice , and tune my ftring , And thee , great Source of Nature , fing . The fun that walks his airy way , To light the world , and give the ...
... delight ; While filver waters glide along , To please my ear , and court my fong : I'll lift my voice , and tune my ftring , And thee , great Source of Nature , fing . The fun that walks his airy way , To light the world , and give the ...
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