The Works of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Hughs, 1779 - 407 pages |
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Abraham Cowley Samuel Johnson, C. Bathrust (Londres). He bids him live and grow in fame ; Among the stars he sticks his name : The grave can but the drofs of him devour , So fmall is Death's , fo great the Poet's , power ! Lo , how th ...
Abraham Cowley Samuel Johnson, C. Bathrust (Londres). He bids him live and grow in fame ; Among the stars he sticks his name : The grave can but the drofs of him devour , So fmall is Death's , fo great the Poet's , power ! Lo , how th ...
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... live now he would revoke , And better things of man report ; For thou doft make Life long , and Art but short . Ah , learned friend ! it grieves me , when I think That thou with all thy art muft die , As certainly as I ; And all thy ...
... live now he would revoke , And better things of man report ; For thou doft make Life long , and Art but short . Ah , learned friend ! it grieves me , when I think That thou with all thy art muft die , As certainly as I ; And all thy ...
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... live . Here lies the great " -false marble ! where ? Nothing but small and fordid duft lies there.- Some build enormous mountain - palaces , The fools and architects to please ; A lafting life in well - hewn ftone they rear : So he ...
... live . Here lies the great " -false marble ! where ? Nothing but small and fordid duft lies there.- Some build enormous mountain - palaces , The fools and architects to please ; A lafting life in well - hewn ftone they rear : So he ...
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... live without it . Into the future times why do we pry , And feek to antedate our mifery ? Like jealous men , why are we longing still To fee the thing which only feeing makes an ill ? ' Tis well the face is veil'd ; for ' twere a fight ...
... live without it . Into the future times why do we pry , And feek to antedate our mifery ? Like jealous men , why are we longing still To fee the thing which only feeing makes an ill ? ' Tis well the face is veil'd ; for ' twere a fight ...
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... Live , and know what ' tis to Be ; Who all the nonfenfe of our language fee ; Who fpeak Things , and our words , their ill - drawn pic- tures , fcorn ; When we , by ' a foolish figure , fay ,. " Behold an old man dead ! " then they ...
... Live , and know what ' tis to Be ; Who all the nonfenfe of our language fee ; Who fpeak Things , and our words , their ill - drawn pic- tures , fcorn ; When we , by ' a foolish figure , fay ,. " Behold an old man dead ! " then they ...
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