A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Swift. Thompson. Watts. Hamilton. A. Philips. G. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. HarteJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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Side ix
... laft years of Queen Anne , when his faculties were in full vigour , and occafions for displaying them arose adequate to their greatnefs . It is recorded to his honour , and to animate others by his example , that , during his connection ...
... laft years of Queen Anne , when his faculties were in full vigour , and occafions for displaying them arose adequate to their greatnefs . It is recorded to his honour , and to animate others by his example , that , during his connection ...
Side xiii
... laft were written chiefly with a view to gratify his refentment against Walpole , to whom he attributed the ill offices done him by the Queen , who promised him fome medals , which she never fent , and affected to believe him to be the ...
... laft were written chiefly with a view to gratify his refentment against Walpole , to whom he attributed the ill offices done him by the Queen , who promised him fome medals , which she never fent , and affected to believe him to be the ...
Side 5
... laft to intereft , folly , and abuse . There is a noon - tide in our lives , Which ftill the fooner it arrives , Although we boaft our winter - fun looks bright , And foolishly are glad to fee it at its height , Yet fo much fooner comes ...
... laft to intereft , folly , and abuse . There is a noon - tide in our lives , Which ftill the fooner it arrives , Although we boaft our winter - fun looks bright , And foolishly are glad to fee it at its height , Yet fo much fooner comes ...
Side 27
... Laft night was fo extremely fine , The ladies walk'd till after nine ; Then , in soft voice and speech abfurd , With nonfenfe every second word , With fuftain from exploded plays , They celebrate her beauty's praise ; Run o'er their ...
... Laft night was fo extremely fine , The ladies walk'd till after nine ; Then , in soft voice and speech abfurd , With nonfenfe every second word , With fuftain from exploded plays , They celebrate her beauty's praise ; Run o'er their ...
Side 32
... laft ; Spell all then , and put them together , to find The Name and the Virtues of him I defign'd . Like the Patriarch in Egypt , he's vers'd in the [ great ; Like the prophet in Jewry , he's free with the Like a racer he flies to ...
... laft ; Spell all then , and put them together , to find The Name and the Virtues of him I defign'd . Like the Patriarch in Egypt , he's vers'd in the [ great ; Like the prophet in Jewry , he's free with the Like a racer he flies to ...
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Side 152 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Side 227 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Side 200 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Side 308 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Side 417 - Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast ; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost : My bosom glow'd ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Side 532 - O thou, whose spirit most possest The sacred seat of Shakspeare's breast! By all that from thy prophet broke. In thy divine emotions spoke ; Hither again thy fury deal, Teach me but once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee ! ODE TO SIMPLICITY.
Side 537 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Side 150 - As Rochefoucault his Maxims drew From Nature, I believe them true ; They argue no corrupted mind In him ; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast, ' In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends, While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Side 234 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Side 10 - Then stepp'd aside to fetch them drink, Fill'da large jug up to the brink, And saw it fairly twice go round ; Yet (what is wonderful !) they found, 'Twas still replenish'd to the top, As if they ne'er had touch'da drop.