The British Poets, Volumen1Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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... says , that he was chaplain and clerk of the closet to the Queen , who honoured him by standing godmother to his son , the poet . The dean died after a short illness , in 1705 , and in his sixty - third year . Bishop Burnet preached in ...
... says , that he was chaplain and clerk of the closet to the Queen , who honoured him by standing godmother to his son , the poet . The dean died after a short illness , in 1705 , and in his sixty - third year . Bishop Burnet preached in ...
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... says that ' Isabel's tears water the bays of Southern . ' Sometimes he is vague and obscure in his ex- pressions . * The late Dr. Ridley remembered a report current at Oxford , that when Young was composing , he would shut up his ...
... says that ' Isabel's tears water the bays of Southern . ' Sometimes he is vague and obscure in his ex- pressions . * The late Dr. Ridley remembered a report current at Oxford , that when Young was composing , he would shut up his ...
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... in reporting this circumstance , says it was owing to the inattention of George the 2nd , and not of the audience in general , v . vol . ii . 1719 , they communicated whatever verses they wrote , even LIFE OF YOUNG . xxi.
... in reporting this circumstance , says it was owing to the inattention of George the 2nd , and not of the audience in general , v . vol . ii . 1719 , they communicated whatever verses they wrote , even LIFE OF YOUNG . xxi.
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... ( says Pope ) that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the Iliad , I met Dr. Young in the street , and upon our falling into that subject , the Doctor expressed a great deal of surprise at Tickell's having such a translation by ...
... ( says Pope ) that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the Iliad , I met Dr. Young in the street , and upon our falling into that subject , the Doctor expressed a great deal of surprise at Tickell's having such a translation by ...
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... says Dr. J. Warton , that abounds in wit , obser- vation on life , pleasantry , delicacy , urbanity , and the most well - bred raillery , without a single mark of spleen or ill na- year 1725 , and the last was finished in the xxvi LIFE ...
... says Dr. J. Warton , that abounds in wit , obser- vation on life , pleasantry , delicacy , urbanity , and the most well - bred raillery , without a single mark of spleen or ill na- year 1725 , and the last was finished in the xxvi LIFE ...
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ambition angels Anne Wharton archangels art thou beam beneath bids blest bliss blood divine boast boundless Busiris charms creation dark death deep Deity delight divine dost dread dust earth EDWARD YOUNG endless eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry fair fate flame fond fool give glorious glory gods grave grief guilt happiness heart heaven Herbert Croft hope hour human illustrious infidels life's light live Lorenzo man's mankind midnight mighty mind mortal Narcissa nature nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er Omnipotence pain passion peace Philander pleasure poem praise pride proud reason rise sacred says scene sense shades shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere stars strange thee theme thine thought thro throne thy disease tomb triumph truth virtue virtue's Voltaire wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched ye stars Young
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Página 32 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 278 - And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals, and immortals, seen with awe ! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone, thy waist ; clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form ; and, heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train.
Página 62 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Página 23 - Blest leisure is our curse ; like that of Cain, It makes us wander ; wander earth around To fly that tyrant, thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
Página xiv - Whence Gay was banish'd in disgrace, Where Pope will never show his face, Where Y must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Página 17 - All pay themselves the compliment to think, They, one day, shall not drivel ; and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least, their own ; their future selves...
Página 266 - Heav'n opens in their bosoms : But, how rare, Ah me ! that magnanimity, how rare ! What hero, like the man who stands himself; Who dares to meet his naked heart alone...
Página 5 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the flood It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done!
Página lix - Young should turn away a clergyman's widow, who lived with him, and who, having acquired great influence over the father, was saucy to the son. Dr. Johnson said, she could not conceal her resentment at him, for saying to Young, that "an old man should not resign himself to the management of any body.
Página 309 - Yet grant it true ; new difficulties rise ; I'm still quite out at sea ; nor see the shore. Whence earth and these bright orbs ? Eternal too ? Grant matter was eternal ; still these orbs Would want some other father ; — much design Is seen in all their motions, all their makes ; Design, implies intelligence, and art ; That can't be from themselves — or man; that art Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow, And nothing greater yet allowed than man.