The Poems, of the Late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations; ...Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Company, London, 1791 |
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... For know , thou pattern of abuse , " Thou Snake art but a crawling goofe ; " And thou dull dabbler in each lake , " Art nothing but a feather'd Snake . " MRS . Mrs. ABIGAIL and the DUMB WAITER .. FABLE XV . FABLE S. 41.
... For know , thou pattern of abuse , " Thou Snake art but a crawling goofe ; " And thou dull dabbler in each lake , " Art nothing but a feather'd Snake . " MRS . Mrs. ABIGAIL and the DUMB WAITER .. FABLE XV . FABLE S. 41.
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... dull phlegmatic turns , Whofe pulfe not beats , whofe blood not burns , Read Malebranche , Boyle and Marriot ; I fcorn their philofophic ftrife , And study nature from the life , ( Where most she fhines ) in HARRIOT . III . When the ...
... dull phlegmatic turns , Whofe pulfe not beats , whofe blood not burns , Read Malebranche , Boyle and Marriot ; I fcorn their philofophic ftrife , And study nature from the life , ( Where most she fhines ) in HARRIOT . III . When the ...
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... dull night , From his watch - tow'r in the skies , Till the dappled dawn doth rife ; Then to come in fpight of forrow , ' And at my window bid good - morrow , Thro ' the fweet - briar , or the vine , Or the twifted eglantine : While the ...
... dull night , From his watch - tow'r in the skies , Till the dappled dawn doth rife ; Then to come in fpight of forrow , ' And at my window bid good - morrow , Thro ' the fweet - briar , or the vine , Or the twifted eglantine : While the ...
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... dull . In caves they live ; for who was ever known . So wife , fo fedulous to build a town ? The fame ftupidity infects the whole , Fix'd in the breast , and center'd in the foul , These never feel th ' ambitious fires of Jove , To ...
... dull . In caves they live ; for who was ever known . So wife , fo fedulous to build a town ? The fame ftupidity infects the whole , Fix'd in the breast , and center'd in the foul , These never feel th ' ambitious fires of Jove , To ...
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... Dull animals inhabit this abode , The owl , mole , dormoufe , tortoife , and the toad . Dull rivers deep within their channels glide , And flow roll on their tributary tide : Nor ought th ' unvegetative waters feed , But fleepy poppy ...
... Dull animals inhabit this abode , The owl , mole , dormoufe , tortoife , and the toad . Dull rivers deep within their channels glide , And flow roll on their tributary tide : Nor ought th ' unvegetative waters feed , But fleepy poppy ...
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Página 114 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Página 208 - Neglect the rules each verbal Critic lays, For not to know some trifles, is a praise. Most Critics, fond of some subservient art, Still make the Whole depend upon a Part : They talk of principles, but notions prize, And all to one lov'd Folly sacrifice.
Página 204 - Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more...
Página 118 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Página 210 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine. And glittering thoughts struck out at every line; Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
Página 120 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Página 246 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Página 214 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Página 202 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Página 202 - Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth...