Young. Churchill. Lloyd. Falconer. ThomsonSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
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... those tricks we scorn , Which spoil the scenes they mean them to adorn . But when , from Nature's pure and genuine fource , Thefe ftrokes of acting flow with gen'rous force , When in the features all the foul's pourtray'd , And paffions ...
... those tricks we scorn , Which spoil the scenes they mean them to adorn . But when , from Nature's pure and genuine fource , Thefe ftrokes of acting flow with gen'rous force , When in the features all the foul's pourtray'd , And paffions ...
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... those who scribble , down to those who play . Actors , a venal crew , receive fupport From public bounty , for the public fport . To clap or hifs , all have an equal claim , The cobler's and his lordship's right the fame . All join for ...
... those who scribble , down to those who play . Actors , a venal crew , receive fupport From public bounty , for the public fport . To clap or hifs , all have an equal claim , The cobler's and his lordship's right the fame . All join for ...
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... those which fell ! curs'd those which still fur- vive , To mourn Fifteen renew'd in Forty - five . There , like the Sons of Ifrael , having trod , For the fix'd term of years ordain'd by God , A barren defert , we fhall feize rich ...
... those which fell ! curs'd those which still fur- vive , To mourn Fifteen renew'd in Forty - five . There , like the Sons of Ifrael , having trod , For the fix'd term of years ordain'd by God , A barren defert , we fhall feize rich ...
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... those Who dare not be my friends , can't be my foes . Had I with cruel and oppreffive rimes Purfu'd , and turn'd misfortunes into crimes ; Had I , when Virtue gasping lay and low , Join'd tyrant Vice , and added woe to woe ; Had I made ...
... those Who dare not be my friends , can't be my foes . Had I with cruel and oppreffive rimes Purfu'd , and turn'd misfortunes into crimes ; Had I , when Virtue gasping lay and low , Join'd tyrant Vice , and added woe to woe ; Had I made ...
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... those who difobey her laws , Virtue from Vice itself extorts applaufe . Her very foes bear witnefs to her state ; They will not loye her , but they cannot hate . Hate Virtue for herfelf , with fpite pursue Merit for merit's fake ! Might ...
... those who difobey her laws , Virtue from Vice itself extorts applaufe . Her very foes bear witnefs to her state ; They will not loye her , but they cannot hate . Hate Virtue for herfelf , with fpite pursue Merit for merit's fake ! Might ...
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æther beneath blefs bleft blifs bofom breaft caufe charms death deep defcend divine dreadful e'en earth eternal ev'ry facred fafe fair fame fate fatire fcene fear feems feen fenfe fhade fhall fhine fhore fhould fide fing fkies flame flaves fleep fmile foes foft fome fong fons fools foon foul fpirit fpread ftand ftate ftill ftream fuch fure fweet fwell genius glory grace Greece heart heaven himſelf honour immortal juft King laft lefs loft Lorenzo mighty mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt Nature Nature's ne'er night numbers nymph o'er paffions pain Palemon peace pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe pride profe proud rage reafon rife Rodmond round ſcene ſhall ſkies ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro throne toil trembling truth virtue Whilft whofe wife worfe
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Página 435 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
Página 327 - Its tenure sure ; its income is divine. High-built abundance, heap on heap ! for what ? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more ; Then, make a richer scramble for the throng...
Página 154 - And, by th' approaching summer season, Draws a few hundreds from the stocks, And purchases his country box. Some three or four miles out of town, (An hour's ride will bring you down,) He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road : And so convenient does it lay, The...
Página 429 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 501 - While o'er th' enfeebling lute his hand he flung, And to the trembling chords these tempting verses sung: 'Behold, ye pilgrims of this earth, behold! See all but man with unearned pleasure gay ! See her bright robes the butterfly unfold, Broke from her wintry tomb in prime of May. What youthful bride can equal her array? Who can with her for easy pleasure vie? From mead to mead with gentle wing to stray, From flower to flower on balmy gales to fly, Is all she has to do beneath the radiant sky.
Página 460 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 306 - Death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, Man makes a death which Nature never made : Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Página 298 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 150 - A single look more marks th' internal woe, Than all the windings of the lengthen'd Oh. Up to the Face the quick sensation flies, And darts its meaning from the speaking Eyes ; Love, transport, madness, anger, scorn, despair, And all the passions, all the soul is there. In vain Ophelia gives her flowrets round, And with her...
Página 506 - Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight damsel chaunc'd to trippen by ; Which when observ'd, he shrunk into his mew, And straight would recollect his piety anew.