Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Volume 2T. Evans, 1774 |
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... learned club , I ask my readers to no treat Of fcientifick hash'd - up meat , Nor feek to please theatric friends With fcraps of plays , and odds and end FRIEND . Your method , fir , is plain enough ; And all the world has read your ...
... learned club , I ask my readers to no treat Of fcientifick hash'd - up meat , Nor feek to please theatric friends With fcraps of plays , and odds and end FRIEND . Your method , fir , is plain enough ; And all the world has read your ...
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... learned , and polite , Whose knowledge unaffected flows , And fits as eafy as their cloaths ; Who care not though an ac or fed Mifplac'd , endanger PRISCIAN's head ; Nor think his wit a grain the worse , Who cannot frame a Latin verse ...
... learned , and polite , Whose knowledge unaffected flows , And fits as eafy as their cloaths ; Who care not though an ac or fed Mifplac'd , endanger PRISCIAN's head ; Nor think his wit a grain the worse , Who cannot frame a Latin verse ...
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... learned Rhetoricians pass ? Of Scientific Doctors big , Hid in the pent - house of their wig ? Whose converfation hardly goes Beyond half words , and hums ! and Oh's ! Of Scholars , of fuperior Tafte , Who cork it up for fear of wafte ...
... learned Rhetoricians pass ? Of Scientific Doctors big , Hid in the pent - house of their wig ? Whose converfation hardly goes Beyond half words , and hums ! and Oh's ! Of Scholars , of fuperior Tafte , Who cork it up for fear of wafte ...
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... learned ftuff they heard ; That fomething more than preaching fin Should go to make a sound divine ; That Church and Pray'r , and holy Sund Were no excufe for finful Monday ; That pious doctrine , pious Life , Should both make one , as ...
... learned ftuff they heard ; That fomething more than preaching fin Should go to make a sound divine ; That Church and Pray'r , and holy Sund Were no excufe for finful Monday ; That pious doctrine , pious Life , Should both make one , as ...
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... learned wight fhall fhew If Accents MUST be us❜d , or no , A doubt , which puzzles all the wife Of giant and of pigmy size , Who waste their time , and fancies vex With afper , lenis , circumflex , And talk of mark and punctuation , As ...
... learned wight fhall fhew If Accents MUST be us❜d , or no , A doubt , which puzzles all the wife Of giant and of pigmy size , Who waste their time , and fancies vex With afper , lenis , circumflex , And talk of mark and punctuation , As ...
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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...