Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1784 |
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Pagina 82
... spreads Like glorious colours thro ' the flow'ry meads , When lavish Nature , with her best attire , 16 Clothes the gay fpring , the season of defire . Paints her , ' t is true , and does her cheek adorn With the fame art wherewith the ...
... spreads Like glorious colours thro ' the flow'ry meads , When lavish Nature , with her best attire , 16 Clothes the gay fpring , the season of defire . Paints her , ' t is true , and does her cheek adorn With the fame art wherewith the ...
Pagina 103
... spreading fo would flame anon . All that was meant by air or fun , To the young flow'r , my breath has done . If our loose breath fo much can do , What may the fame in forms of love , Of pureft love and musick too , When Flavia it ...
... spreading fo would flame anon . All that was meant by air or fun , To the young flow'r , my breath has done . If our loose breath fo much can do , What may the fame in forms of love , Of pureft love and musick too , When Flavia it ...
Pagina 126
... spread : 125 What god foe'er that thus vouchsafes to lead , 130 We follow gladly , and thy will obey ; 116 MISCELLANIES . The Countess of Carlisle in mourning, In answer to one who wrote a libel against Countefs of Carlisle,
... spread : 125 What god foe'er that thus vouchsafes to lead , 130 We follow gladly , and thy will obey ; 116 MISCELLANIES . The Countess of Carlisle in mourning, In answer to one who wrote a libel against Countefs of Carlisle,
Pagina 130
... Spread their new fails , when shipwreck wasthe worst : More danger now from man alone we find Than from the rocks , the billows , or the wind . They that had fail'd from near th ' Antartic Pole , 55 Their treasure safe , and all their ...
... Spread their new fails , when shipwreck wasthe worst : More danger now from man alone we find Than from the rocks , the billows , or the wind . They that had fail'd from near th ' Antartic Pole , 55 Their treasure safe , and all their ...
Pagina 135
... spread their boughs , As the high fame of their great owner grows ! May he live long enough to fee them all Dark fhadows caft , and as his palace tall ! Methinks I fee the love that shall be made , The lovers walking in that am'rous ...
... spread their boughs , As the high fame of their great owner grows ! May he live long enough to fee them all Dark fhadows caft , and as his palace tall ! Methinks I fee the love that shall be made , The lovers walking in that am'rous ...
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againſt beauty beſt blood boaſt bold brave breaſt bright cauſe cife court defign defire Earl EDMUND WALLER Engliſh ev'ry Exeter Exchange eyes facred fair falutes fame fate fays feems feen fenfe fhall fhining fhips fide fight fince fing firſt flain flame fleep foes fome foon foul ftill fuch fweet grace Heav'n herſelf himſelf Houſes iſland itſelf Jove King Lady laft laſt lefs leſs Lord Lucretius Maid's Tragedy meaſure mind moſt Mufe Muſe muſt noble numbers nymph o'er occafion paffion peace perfon Phoebus plac'd pleaſe pleaſure poem poet pow'r praiſe prefent Prince Queen rage raiſe reaſon reft rife royal ſea ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow ſpoil ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſuch ſweet taſte tempeft thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro uſe verfe verſes vex'd Waller whofe whoſe wind youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 99 - A narrow compafs! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the reft the fun goes round. XXX. THE FALL.
Pagina 35 - virtues which in parents fhine 15 Make not like progrefs thro' the line. *Tis not from whom, but where we live: The place does oft' thofe graces give. Great Julius, on the mountains bred, A flock perhaps, or herd had led.
Pagina xliii - old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand their true meaning and value. Such advances may a great genius make when it undertakes any thing in earneft. Some painters will hit the chief lines and mafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that thro' all the differences of age the
Pagina xliii - out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifh poet, and overflows whatever
Pagina 41 - And, without planting, drink of ev'ry vine. To dig for wealth we weary not our limbs; Gold, tho' the heavieft metal, hither fwims. Ours is the harveft where the Indians mow ; We plough the deep, and reap what others
Pagina 45 - Brutus thought to break their yoke, But cut the bond of union with that ftroke. That fun once fet, a thoufand meaner ftars Gave a dim light to violence and wars; To fuch a tempeft as now threatens all,
Pagina 133 - there as much as ever diftempered with the fame fatal affection for play, which engaged him in one adventure that well deferves to be related. As he returned to his lodgings from a gaming-table he was attacked in the dark by three ruffians, who were employed to
Pagina xxxiii - and in jeft, and therefore very grateful to all kind " of company, where he was not the lefs efteemed *' for being very rich. He had been even nurfed in *' parliaments, where he fat when he was very young,
Pagina 85 - Ah, cruel Nymph! from whom her humble fwain Flies for relief unto the raging main, And from the winds and tempefts does expect A milder fate than from her cold neglect! Yet there he '11 pray that the unkind may prove