The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 15Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... Thoughts upon human Reason , occasioned by reading some extravagant Declamations in its favour .. Page On Attention 266 269 ib . ib . 272 On Faith , Reason , and Sight , considered as the three distinct Mediums of human Perception A ...
... Thoughts upon human Reason , occasioned by reading some extravagant Declamations in its favour .. Page On Attention 266 269 ib . ib . 272 On Faith , Reason , and Sight , considered as the three distinct Mediums of human Perception A ...
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... thought it proper to include in his published works . In his poem , entitled Sickness , he laments the want of a mother's tenderness , and a father's care ; but as they died in advanced age , he could not have lost them before he had ...
... thought it proper to include in his published works . In his poem , entitled Sickness , he laments the want of a mother's tenderness , and a father's care ; but as they died in advanced age , he could not have lost them before he had ...
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... thought , adding much to his poetical reputation . In 1757 , he published two volumes , or , as he quaintly terms them , two tomes of poems , by subscription , with prefaces and notes , which give us a very high idea of the author's ...
... thought , adding much to his poetical reputation . In 1757 , he published two volumes , or , as he quaintly terms them , two tomes of poems , by subscription , with prefaces and notes , which give us a very high idea of the author's ...
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... thought the best verses in the collection : they are finished in so easy and masterly a manner , that I must own that I had rather have been the author of them than of the originals themselves . The tragedy was likewise chiefly composed ...
... thought the best verses in the collection : they are finished in so easy and masterly a manner , that I must own that I had rather have been the author of them than of the originals themselves . The tragedy was likewise chiefly composed ...
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... thought of thee ; my breast Bleeds in me , with distress to see thee frown . O smile ! by thy dead mother's reverend dust , By all thy bowels are most fond of , smile , And chase these heavy clouds of grief away . I beg by Bacchus ; for ...
... thought of thee ; my breast Bleeds in me , with distress to see thee frown . O smile ! by thy dead mother's reverend dust , By all thy bowels are most fond of , smile , And chase these heavy clouds of grief away . I beg by Bacchus ; for ...
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Ælla Alfwold Aristippus Bacchus bard beauty BIRTHA bless blest bliss bosom Botte breast breath Catcott CELMONDE charms Christ dear death delight divine drest e'er eternal ev'ry eyes fair faith fame fancy fire flame fools fyghte genius give glory grace hand happy head hear heart Heav'n heav'nly holy honour Jupiter king knyghte kynge learned light Lord lyre mind Muse nature Nature's nete never numbers nymph o'er onne Ovid passions plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet pow'r praise pride rage rapture rhyme rise ROBERT DODSLEY round sacred scene sense shine sing smile soft song soul spirit Spleen spryte sweet taste tell Thanne thee theyre thie thine things thou thought thro tongue true truth Twas verse virtue Whilst wond'rous word wyfe wylle wythe ynne youth ytte
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Page 141 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Page 141 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 125 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides: Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty...
Page 536 - Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
Page 140 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 288 - ... left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Page 141 - Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 587 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polished pebbles spread...
Page 624 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Page 219 - Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.