The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Page 45
... please the Goddefs of the feaft . Thus . fpake the Ruler of the spacious skies.- But thus , refolv'd , the blue - ey'd Maid replies : In vain , my father ! all their dangers plead , To fuch thy Pallas never grants her aid . My flowery ...
... please the Goddefs of the feaft . Thus . fpake the Ruler of the spacious skies.- But thus , refolv'd , the blue - ey'd Maid replies : In vain , my father ! all their dangers plead , To fuch thy Pallas never grants her aid . My flowery ...
Page 57
... 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 manner of the Ancient Monks ...
... 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 manner of the Ancient Monks ...
Page 60
... please . Now friends converfing my foft hours refine , And Tully's Tufculum revives in mine : Now to grave books I bid the mind retreat , And fuch as make me rather good than great . Or o'er the works of eafy fancy rove , Where flutes ...
... please . Now friends converfing my foft hours refine , And Tully's Tufculum revives in mine : Now to grave books I bid the mind retreat , And fuch as make me rather good than great . Or o'er the works of eafy fancy rove , Where flutes ...
Page 63
... please our youthful fight You fleep in cream and frontlets all the night , Your face with patches foil , with paint repair , Drefs with gay gowns , and fhade with foreign hair .. If truth , in spite of manners , muft bertold , Why ...
... please our youthful fight You fleep in cream and frontlets all the night , Your face with patches foil , with paint repair , Drefs with gay gowns , and fhade with foreign hair .. If truth , in spite of manners , muft bertold , Why ...
Page 68
... please the Nine . ) But fince I chance to want these two , I'll make the fongs of Durfey do . Rent from the corps , on yonder pin , I hang the fcales that brac'd it in ; I I hang I hang my ftudious morning - gown , And write 68 PAR ...
... please the Nine . ) But fince I chance to want these two , I'll make the fongs of Durfey do . Rent from the corps , on yonder pin , I hang the fcales that brac'd it in ; I I hang I hang my ftudious morning - gown , And write 68 PAR ...
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