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Pagina 82
... Heav'n meant to shed Its keeneft vengeance on the guilty head , The drudgery of words the damn'd would know , Doom'd to write Lexicons in endlefs woe * . * See Scaliger's Epigram on this fubject , communicated without doubt by Dr ...
... Heav'n meant to shed Its keeneft vengeance on the guilty head , The drudgery of words the damn'd would know , Doom'd to write Lexicons in endlefs woe * . * See Scaliger's Epigram on this fubject , communicated without doubt by Dr ...
Pagina 6
... Heav'n : But what , my friend , what hope remains for me , Who start at theft , and blush at perjury ? Who fcarce forbear , tho ' BRITAIN'S court he fing , To pluck a titled poet's borrow'd wing ; A ftatefman's logick unconvinc'd can ...
... Heav'n : But what , my friend , what hope remains for me , Who start at theft , and blush at perjury ? Who fcarce forbear , tho ' BRITAIN'S court he fing , To pluck a titled poet's borrow'd wing ; A ftatefman's logick unconvinc'd can ...
Pagina 11
... Heav'n's juft bolts Orgilio's wealth con- found , And spread his flaming palace on the ground , Swift o'er the land the difmal rumour flies , And public mournings pacify the fkies ; The laureat tribe in venal verse relate , How virtue ...
... Heav'n's juft bolts Orgilio's wealth con- found , And spread his flaming palace on the ground , Swift o'er the land the difmal rumour flies , And public mournings pacify the fkies ; The laureat tribe in venal verse relate , How virtue ...
Pagina 12
... Heav'n another fire . 31 Could'st thou refign the park and play content , For the fair banks of Severn or of Trent ; There might'st thou find fome elegant retreat , Some hireling fenator's deferted feat ; And stretch thy profpects o'er ...
... Heav'n another fire . 31 Could'st thou refign the park and play content , For the fair banks of Severn or of Trent ; There might'st thou find fome elegant retreat , Some hireling fenator's deferted feat ; And stretch thy profpects o'er ...
Pagina 26
... Heav'n may hear , nor deem Religion vain . Still raife for good the fupplicating voice , But leave to Heav'n the measure and the choice . Safe in his pow'r , whofe eyes difcern afar The fecret ambush of a fpecious pray'r ; Implore his ...
... Heav'n may hear , nor deem Religion vain . Still raife for good the fupplicating voice , But leave to Heav'n the measure and the choice . Safe in his pow'r , whofe eyes difcern afar The fecret ambush of a fpecious pray'r ; Implore his ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 75 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Pagina 77 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pagina 21 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...
Pagina 77 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Pagina 77 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Pagina 57 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Pagina 6 - What check restrain your thirst of pow'r and gold ? Behold rebellious virtue quite o'erthrown, Behold our fame, our wealth, our lives your own. To such, a groaning nation's spoils are giv'n, When public crimes...
Pagina 20 - Ray, And pour on misty Doubt resistless Day ; Should no false Kindness lure to loose Delight, Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright ; Should tempting...
Pagina 22 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Pagina 29 - Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.