The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author, Volumes 2-3

Front Cover
The Martins, 1783
 

Selected pages

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 171 - Is this — O death to think ! is this the land Where merit and reward went hand in hand? Where heroes, parentlike, the poet view'd, By whom they saw their glorious deeds renew'd ? Where poets, true to honour...
Page 110 - To wear vile faction's arbitrary chains, And strictly weighs, in apprehension clear, Things as they are, and not as they appear. With thee good humour tempers lively wit; Enthroned with Judgment, Candour loves to sit; And nature gave thee, open to distress, A heart to pity, and a hand to bless.
Page 44 - With more and greater evils than the first : Weak, sickly, full of pains, in every breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death...
Page 152 - Till They, by Pride corrupted, for the sake Of Singularity, disclaim'd that make, Till They, disdaining Nature's vulgar mode, Flew off, and struck into another road, More fitting Quality, and to our view Came forth a Species altogether new, Something We had not known, and could not know, Like nothing of God's making here...
Page 53 - gainst a Ghost) Through the dull, deep surrounding gloom, In close array, towards Fanny's tomb Adventured forth ; Caution before, With heedful step, the lanthorn bore, Pointing at graves ; and in the rear, Trembling, and talking loud, went Fear. 710 The church-yard teem'd ; th...
Page 141 - Not regist'red in Heav'n — He mocks at grace, And in his Creed God never found a place — Look not for...
Page iii - About ten at night, the gentlemen met in the chamber, in which the girl, supposed to be disturbed by a spirit, had, with proper caution, been put to bed by several ladies. They sat rather more than an hour...
Page 20 - BOOK III. AH me! what mighty perils wait, The man who meddles with a State, Whether to ftrengthen, or oppofe!
Page 89 - Reafon's plan, How vain is that poor creature, Man ! How pleas'd is ev'ry paltry elf To prate about that thing himfelf ! After my...
Page 175 - GRACES, buxom, blith, and gay, Shall at his cradle dance the Hay ; And VENUS, with her train of LOVES, Shall bring a thoufand pair of doves To bill, to coo, to whine, to fqueak, Through all the dialetli of Greek.

Bibliographic information