The Art of English Poetry: Containing. Rules for making verses. A collection of the most natural, agreeable, and sublime thoughts ... that are to be found in the best English poets. A dictionary of rhymes. I.. II.. III.Hitch and Hawes, 1762 |
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Pagina 27
... Shade Of fad Adverfity is fairer made . Wall . But if a Diphthong precede the laft Confonant , the Rhyme must begin at that Vowel of it whose Sound most prevails ; as , Next to the Pow'r of making Tempeft ceafe , Was in that Storm to ...
... Shade Of fad Adverfity is fairer made . Wall . But if a Diphthong precede the laft Confonant , the Rhyme must begin at that Vowel of it whose Sound most prevails ; as , Next to the Pow'r of making Tempeft ceafe , Was in that Storm to ...
Pagina 34
... Shade ! Thou hadft a Being ere the World was made . And ( well - fix'd ) art alone of ending not afraid . Roch . } Or else they confift of 8 Syllables ; as thefe of Waller , Of a fair Lady playing with a Snake . Strange that fuch Horror ...
... Shade ! Thou hadft a Being ere the World was made . And ( well - fix'd ) art alone of ending not afraid . Roch . } Or else they confift of 8 Syllables ; as thefe of Waller , Of a fair Lady playing with a Snake . Strange that fuch Horror ...
Pagina 43
... Shade , By Nature only for my Sorrows made , Pll fpend this Voice in Cries ; In Tears I'll waste thefe Eyes , By Love fo vainly fed : So Luft of old the Deluge punished . Ah wretched Youth ! faid 1 ; Ab wretched Youth ! twice did I ...
... Shade , By Nature only for my Sorrows made , Pll fpend this Voice in Cries ; In Tears I'll waste thefe Eyes , By Love fo vainly fed : So Luft of old the Deluge punished . Ah wretched Youth ! faid 1 ; Ab wretched Youth ! twice did I ...
Pagina 46
... Shade , Made Vocal by my Song , and taught his Praife . Thus I have given a fhort Account of all the Sorts of Poems that are most us'd in our Language . The Acrofticks , Anagrams , & c . deserve not to be mention'd , and we may fay of ...
... Shade , Made Vocal by my Song , and taught his Praife . Thus I have given a fhort Account of all the Sorts of Poems that are most us'd in our Language . The Acrofticks , Anagrams , & c . deserve not to be mention'd , and we may fay of ...
Pagina 50
... Shade , and die . Oh ! I were loft in endless Night , If her bright Prefence brought not Light ; Then I revive , bleft as before , The Gods themselves cannot be more l For Paffion by long Abfence does improve , And makes that Rapture ...
... Shade , and die . Oh ! I were loft in endless Night , If her bright Prefence brought not Light ; Then I revive , bleft as before , The Gods themselves cannot be more l For Paffion by long Abfence does improve , And makes that Rapture ...
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Pagina 139 - know not where, To lie in cold Obftruftion, and to rot; This fenfible warm Motion to become A kneaded Clod ; and the delighted Spirit To bathe in fiery Floods, or to refide In thrilling Regions of thick-ribbed Ice : To be imprifon'd in the viewlefs Winds, Or blown with reftlefs Violence about The pendant World; or to be
Pagina 251 - Summer in a Sea of Glory, But far beyond my Depth. My high-blown Pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with Service, to the Mercy Of a rude Stream that muft for ever hide me.
Pagina 124 - In the Sun's Orb, made porous to receive, And drink the liquid Light; firm to retain Her gather'd Beams : Great Palace now of Light; Hither, as to their Fountain, other Stars Repairing, in their Golden Urns draw Light; And hence the Morning Planet gilds her Horns.
Pagina 188 - What Tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive Bands his Chariot-Wheels ! Have you climb'd up to Walls and Battlements, To Towers and Windows, yea to Chimney-Tops, Your Infants in your Arms, and there have fate The live-long Day with patient
Pagina 165 - and when h'as done^ The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun: They drink and dance by their own Light, They drink and revel all the Night. Nothing in Nature's fober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high : Fill all the Glafles there; for why Should ev'ry
Pagina 129 - 1 had rather be a Toad, And live upon the Vapour of a Dungeon, Than keep a Corner in the Thing I love For others Ufes, Yet 'tis the Plague of Great Ones : Prerogativ'd are they lefs than the Bafe ; . 'Tis Deftiny
Pagina 247 - this has done. My Joy, my Grief, my Hope, my Love, Did all within this Circle move. A narrow Compafs! And yet there Dwelt all that's Good, and all that's Fair. Give me but what this Ribband bound;
Pagina 295 - deep the Groans : Defpair Tended the Sick, bufy from Couch to Couch ; And over them triumphant Death his Dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, tho' oft invok'd With Vows, as their chief Good and final Hope. Milt. Immediately a Place
Pagina 41 - tell, ye Sons of Light, Angels ! for you behold him, and with Songs, And Choral Symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, you in Heaven. On Earth, join all ye Creatures, to extol
Pagina 265 - and in the Jaws of Hell, Revengeful Cares, and fullen Sorrows dwell; And pale Difeafes, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unrefifted Rage : Here Toils, and Death, and Death's Half-brother Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their Gentry keep ; With anxious Pleafures of a guilty Mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind