Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Volume 2T. Evans, 1774 |
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... critics no offence , I hope ) PRIOR fhall live as long as POPE , Each in his manner fure to please , While both have ftrength , and both have cafe ; Yet though their various beauties strike , Their ease , their strength is not alike ...
... critics no offence , I hope ) PRIOR fhall live as long as POPE , Each in his manner fure to please , While both have ftrength , and both have cafe ; Yet though their various beauties strike , Their ease , their strength is not alike ...
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... critic fays , upon whose fleeve Some pin more faith than you'll believe That writings which as easy pleafe , Are not the writings wrote with ease . From whence the inference is plain , Your friend MAT PRIOR Wrote with p AUTHOR . With ...
... critic fays , upon whose fleeve Some pin more faith than you'll believe That writings which as easy pleafe , Are not the writings wrote with ease . From whence the inference is plain , Your friend MAT PRIOR Wrote with p AUTHOR . With ...
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... critic's judgment , these Write easily , and not with EASE . There are , indeed , whofe with pursues , And inclination courts the muse ; Who , happy in a partial fame , A while poffefs a poet's name , But read their works , examine fair ...
... critic's judgment , these Write easily , and not with EASE . There are , indeed , whofe with pursues , And inclination courts the muse ; Who , happy in a partial fame , A while poffefs a poet's name , But read their works , examine fair ...
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... of fame , or want of bread , Shall any start up fons of rhime PATHETIC , EASY , or SUBLIME ? You'd think , to hear what Critics fay , Their labour was no more than play : And And that , but fuch a paultry ftation Reflects difgrace ( 18 )
... of fame , or want of bread , Shall any start up fons of rhime PATHETIC , EASY , or SUBLIME ? You'd think , to hear what Critics fay , Their labour was no more than play : And And that , but fuch a paultry ftation Reflects difgrace ( 18 )
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... Critics grown , Ten have no judgment of their own : But , like the Cyclops watch the nod Of fome informing mafter god . Or as , when near his latest breath , The patient fain would juggle death , When DOCTORS fit in CONSULTATION ( Which ...
... Critics grown , Ten have no judgment of their own : But , like the Cyclops watch the nod Of fome informing mafter god . Or as , when near his latest breath , The patient fain would juggle death , When DOCTORS fit in CONSULTATION ( Which ...
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Page 188 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 192 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 190 - The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Page 198 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Page 204 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 200 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 198 - Their name, their years, fpelt by th' unletter'd Mufe, The place of fame and elegy fupply : And many a holy text around fhe ftrews, That teach the ruftic moralift to dye.
Page 196 - Th' applaufe of lift'ning fenates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to defpife, To fcatter plenty o'er a fmiling land, And read their...
Page 190 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 198 - For thee, who mindful of th' unhonour'd dead Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall...