The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Page 47
... fame ; When , in his liver ftruck , the javelin hung , The Mouse fell thundering , and the target rung ; Prone to the ground , he finks his closing eye , And foil'd in duft his lovely treffes lie . A fpear at Pelion Troglodytes caft ...
... fame ; When , in his liver ftruck , the javelin hung , The Mouse fell thundering , and the target rung ; Prone to the ground , he finks his closing eye , And foil'd in duft his lovely treffes lie . A fpear at Pelion Troglodytes caft ...
Page 55
... Fame's fair temple , o'er the boldest wits Infhrin'd on high the facred Virgil fits , And fits in measures , fuch as Virgil's Muse To place thee near him might be fond to chufe . How might he tune th ' alternate reed with thee , Perhaps ...
... Fame's fair temple , o'er the boldest wits Infhrin'd on high the facred Virgil fits , And fits in measures , fuch as Virgil's Muse To place thee near him might be fond to chufe . How might he tune th ' alternate reed with thee , Perhaps ...
Page 57
... fame . A TRANSLATION of part of the firft Canto of the RAPE of the Lock , into Leonine Verfe , after the manner of the Ancient Monks . E T nunc dilectum fpeculum ; pror more retectum , Emicat in mensâ , quæ fplendet pyxide densâ : Tum ...
... fame . A TRANSLATION of part of the firft Canto of the RAPE of the Lock , into Leonine Verfe , after the manner of the Ancient Monks . E T nunc dilectum fpeculum ; pror more retectum , Emicat in mensâ , quæ fplendet pyxide densâ : Tum ...
Page 66
... Fame reports it , with the Gods . Him frantic hunger wildly drives Against a thousand authors lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies ; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes , With horns without , and tufks within , And fcales ...
... Fame reports it , with the Gods . Him frantic hunger wildly drives Against a thousand authors lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies ; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes , With horns without , and tufks within , And fcales ...
Page 76
... fame they live , Are fenfelefs of the fame they give . Ha ! while I gaze , pale Cynthia fades , The bursting earth unveils the shades ! All flow , and wan , and wrap'd with shrouds , They rife in vifionary crouds , And all with fober ...
... fame they live , Are fenfelefs of the fame they give . Ha ! while I gaze , pale Cynthia fades , The bursting earth unveils the shades ! All flow , and wan , and wrap'd with shrouds , They rife in vifionary crouds , And all with fober ...
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