The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - English poetry - 1157 pages |
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... fome of its brightest ornaments . This play was revised and printed in 1669 . In 1664 , he produced The Rival Ladies , a tragi - comedy , in dramatic rhyme , with a dedication to the Earl of Orrery , who was himself a writer of rhyming ...
... fome of its brightest ornaments . This play was revised and printed in 1669 . In 1664 , he produced The Rival Ladies , a tragi - comedy , in dramatic rhyme , with a dedication to the Earl of Orrery , who was himself a writer of rhyming ...
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... fome parts of his hiftory he appears unfteady , and to have too readily temporifed with the feveral revolutions in church and ftate . This , however , might in fome measure have been owing to his natural timidity and diffidence ...
... fome parts of his hiftory he appears unfteady , and to have too readily temporifed with the feveral revolutions in church and ftate . This , however , might in fome measure have been owing to his natural timidity and diffidence ...
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... fome on bells of tafted lilies play . CXLV . With glewy wax fome new foundations lay Of virgin - combs which from the roof are hung : Some arm'd within doors upon duty stay , Or tend the fick , or educate the young . CXLVI . So here fome ...
... fome on bells of tafted lilies play . CXLV . With glewy wax fome new foundations lay Of virgin - combs which from the roof are hung : Some arm'd within doors upon duty stay , Or tend the fick , or educate the young . CXLVI . So here fome ...
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... fome clofe - pent room it crept along , And fmouldering as it went , in filence fed ; Till th ' infant monfter , with devouring ftrong , Walk'd boldly upright , with exalted head . ་ CCXIX . Now like fome rich and mighty murderer , Too ...
... fome clofe - pent room it crept along , And fmouldering as it went , in filence fed ; Till th ' infant monfter , with devouring ftrong , Walk'd boldly upright , with exalted head . ་ CCXIX . Now like fome rich and mighty murderer , Too ...
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... fome deep defign to lay , ' Gainft a fet time , and then forget the day : Yet he will laugh at his best friends , and be Juft as good company as Nokes and Lee . But when he aims at reafon or at rule , He turns himself the best to ...
... fome deep defign to lay , ' Gainft a fet time , and then forget the day : Yet he will laugh at his best friends , and be Juft as good company as Nokes and Lee . But when he aims at reafon or at rule , He turns himself the best to ...
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Page 168 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 264 - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
Page 147 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 106 - These gross, half-animated lumps I leave; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are...
Page 41 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 233 - Lycurgus came, the surly king of Thrace ; Black was his beard, and manly was his face: The balls of his broad eyes...
Page 133 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted...
Page 215 - I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
Page 176 - MARS. Inspire the vocal brass, inspire ; The world is past its infant age : Arms and honour, Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, And kindle manly rage. Mars has look'd the sky to red ; And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.