Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1796 |
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... it for a rule , No creature smarts so little as a fool . Let peals of laughter , Codrus , round thee break , Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack : 85 Pit , box , and gall'ry , in convulsions hurl'd 36 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES ,
... it for a rule , No creature smarts so little as a fool . Let peals of laughter , Codrus , round thee break , Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack : 85 Pit , box , and gall'ry , in convulsions hurl'd 36 PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES ,
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... , It was a sin to call our neighbour Fool ; That harmless mother thought no wife a whore ; Hear this , and spare his family , James Moore ! 385 Unspotted names , and memorable long ! If there be PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES . "
... , It was a sin to call our neighbour Fool ; That harmless mother thought no wife a whore ; Hear this , and spare his family , James Moore ! 385 Unspotted names , and memorable long ! If there be PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES . "
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... Hear Bethel's sermon , one not vers'd in schools , 5 But strong in sense , and wise without the rules . 10 I HOR , LIB II . SAT . II . QUÆ virtus et quanta , boni , sit vivere párvo , ( 2Nec meus hic sermo est ; sed quem præcepit ...
... Hear Bethel's sermon , one not vers'd in schools , 5 But strong in sense , and wise without the rules . 10 I HOR , LIB II . SAT . II . QUÆ virtus et quanta , boni , sit vivere párvo , ( 2Nec meus hic sermo est ; sed quem præcepit ...
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... hear what blessings temperance can bring : ( Thus said our friend , and what he said I sing ) 4 First health : the stomach ( cramm'd from ev'ry dish , A tomb of boil'd and roast , and flesh and fish , 70 Where bile , and wind , and ...
... hear what blessings temperance can bring : ( Thus said our friend , and what he said I sing ) 4 First health : the stomach ( cramm'd from ev'ry dish , A tomb of boil'd and roast , and flesh and fish , 70 Where bile , and wind , and ...
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... hear , 100 2 That sweetest music to an honest ear , ( For ' faith , Lord Fanny ! you are in the wrong , The world's good word is better than a song ) Who has not learn'd 3 fresh sturgeon and ham - pie Are no rewards for want and infamy ...
... hear , 100 2 That sweetest music to an honest ear , ( For ' faith , Lord Fanny ! you are in the wrong , The world's good word is better than a song ) Who has not learn'd 3 fresh sturgeon and ham - pie Are no rewards for want and infamy ...
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Página 32 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 213 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Página 36 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Página 48 - ... for half a year or more, the common newspapers, in most of which they had some property, as being hired writers, were filled with the most abusive falsehoods and scurrilities they could possibly devise...
Página 32 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 197 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Página 39 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Página 35 - Tis all in vain, deny it as I will: 'No, such a genius never can lie still'; And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir Will or Bubo makes.
Página 27 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 33 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ! Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...