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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... with the face of a phyfician , Their colour fcann'd and their condition ; He trufts his touch , his fmell , his eyes , The goods at once approves and buys . CATCHUP CATCHUP fo dextrous , droll , and dry , It FABLE S.
... with the face of a phyfician , Their colour fcann'd and their condition ; He trufts his touch , his fmell , his eyes , The goods at once approves and buys . CATCHUP CATCHUP fo dextrous , droll , and dry , It FABLE S.
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... once a prude and a coquette.- << " Twas better for each British virgin , " When on roast beef , ftrong beer , and fturgeon , Joyous to break faft they fet round , -66 Nor were afham'd to eat a pound . These were the manners , these the ...
... once a prude and a coquette.- << " Twas better for each British virgin , " When on roast beef , ftrong beer , and fturgeon , Joyous to break faft they fet round , -66 Nor were afham'd to eat a pound . These were the manners , these the ...
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... once fo antient and so easy , " At once fo gorgeous and so greasy ,; " I value not thy gafconading , " Nor all thy alamode parading ; But to abstain from words imperious , And to be fober , grave , and ferious . " " Tho ' Tho ' fays ...
... once fo antient and so easy , " At once fo gorgeous and so greasy ,; " I value not thy gafconading , " Nor all thy alamode parading ; But to abstain from words imperious , And to be fober , grave , and ferious . " " Tho ' Tho ' fays ...
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... once to giggle , and to reason , " When me you leffon , friend , you dream , " For know I am not what I feem ; " Soon by the mills refining motion , " The fweetest daughter of the ocean , " Fair Medway , fhall with fnowy hue , My virgin ...
... once to giggle , and to reason , " When me you leffon , friend , you dream , " For know I am not what I feem ; " Soon by the mills refining motion , " The fweetest daughter of the ocean , " Fair Medway , fhall with fnowy hue , My virgin ...
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... once thieves , brawlers , and deftroyers.- " You for a wife have fearch'd the globe , " You've got a very female Job , " Pattern of love , and peace and unity , " Or how cou'd you expect impunity ? " O Lord ! this nafty thing will bite ...
... once thieves , brawlers , and deftroyers.- " You for a wife have fearch'd the globe , " You've got a very female Job , " Pattern of love , and peace and unity , " Or how cou'd you expect impunity ? " O Lord ! this nafty thing will bite ...
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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...