The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen14,Página 2H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... writer fall among enemies , and cannot give the marks of their confcience , he is knocked down before the reafons of his own are heard . A preface , therefore , which is but a bespeaking of favour , is al- together useless . What I ...
... writer fall among enemies , and cannot give the marks of their confcience , he is knocked down before the reafons of his own are heard . A preface , therefore , which is but a bespeaking of favour , is al- together useless . What I ...
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... writing many things which are contained in the third part of it . But I was always in fome hope , that the church of England might have been perfuaded to have taken off the penal laws and the test , which was one design of the poem ...
... writing many things which are contained in the third part of it . But I was always in fome hope , that the church of England might have been perfuaded to have taken off the penal laws and the test , which was one design of the poem ...
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... write him of an upftart race ; Because of Wickliff's brood no mark he brings , But his innate antipathy to kings . Thefe laft deduce him from th ' Helvetian kind , Who near the Leman - lake his confort lin'd : That fiery Zuinglius first ...
... write him of an upftart race ; Because of Wickliff's brood no mark he brings , But his innate antipathy to kings . Thefe laft deduce him from th ' Helvetian kind , Who near the Leman - lake his confort lin'd : That fiery Zuinglius first ...
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... write Among her fons ; for ' tis no common fight , A spotted dam , and all her offspring white . The Savage , though fhe faw her plea control'd , Yet would not wholly feem to quit her hold , But offer'd fairly to compound the strife ...
... write Among her fons ; for ' tis no common fight , A spotted dam , and all her offspring white . The Savage , though fhe faw her plea control'd , Yet would not wholly feem to quit her hold , But offer'd fairly to compound the strife ...
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... writer's wit . Yet ftill thy fools fhall ftand in thy defence , And juftify their author's want of sense . Let them be all by thy own model made Of dulnefs , and defire no foreign aid ; That they to future ages may be known , Not copies ...
... writer's wit . Yet ftill thy fools fhall ftand in thy defence , And juftify their author's want of sense . Let them be all by thy own model made Of dulnefs , and defire no foreign aid ; That they to future ages may be known , Not copies ...
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Página 200 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Página 199 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Página 213 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy! Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Página 213 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Página 210 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Página 210 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Página 13 - To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith, but bungling bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call, To pay great sums, and to compound the small ; For -who would break with Heaven, and would not break for all?
Página 159 - FAREWELL, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine.
Página 214 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Página 110 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.