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Wherever there was any room for Briskness , or Alacrity of any fort , even in
sinking , he hath þad it allowed ; but here , where there is nothing for him to do
but to take his natural reft , he must permit his Historian , to be filent . It is from
their ...
Wherever there was any room for Briskness , or Alacrity of any fort , even in
sinking , he hath þad it allowed ; but here , where there is nothing for him to do
but to take his natural reft , he must permit his Historian , to be filent . It is from
their ...
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Tho ' I have the greatest deference to the penetration of this eminent scholiast ,
and must own that nothing can be more natural than his interpretation , or juster
than that rule of criticism , which directs us to keep to the literal sense , when no ...
Tho ' I have the greatest deference to the penetration of this eminent scholiast ,
and must own that nothing can be more natural than his interpretation , or juster
than that rule of criticism , which directs us to keep to the literal sense , when no ...
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But this is idle : It must be owned a Christian practice , ufed in the primitive times
by some of the Fathers , and in latter by most of the Sons of the Church ; till the
debauched reign of Charles the second , when the shameless Passion for Wit ...
But this is idle : It must be owned a Christian practice , ufed in the primitive times
by some of the Fathers , and in latter by most of the Sons of the Church ; till the
debauched reign of Charles the second , when the shameless Passion for Wit ...
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But as it seems evident , that facts of a thousand years old , for instance , are now
as probable as they were five hundred years ago ; it is plain , that if in fifty more
they quite disappear , it must be owing , not to their Arguments , but to the ...
But as it seems evident , that facts of a thousand years old , for instance , are now
as probable as they were five hundred years ago ; it is plain , that if in fifty more
they quite disappear , it must be owing , not to their Arguments , but to the ...
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It may indeed seem a very singular Epitafis of a Poem , to end as this does , with
a Great Yawn ; but we must consider it the Yarun of a God , and of powerful
effects . It is not out of Nature , most long and grave counsels concluding in this
very ...
It may indeed seem a very singular Epitafis of a Poem , to end as this does , with
a Great Yawn ; but we must consider it the Yarun of a God , and of powerful
effects . It is not out of Nature , most long and grave counsels concluding in this
very ...
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7 ページ - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
215 ページ - Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
75 ページ - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
184 ページ - To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire ; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
179 ページ - And breathe an air divine on ev'ry face; Yet should the Muses bid my numbers roll Strong as their charms, and gentle as their soul; With Zeuxis...
155 ページ - How think you of our friend the Dean ? I wonder what some people mean ; My lord and he are grown so great, Always together tc te a tete. What ! they admire him for his jokes — See but the fortune of some folks...
84 ページ - ... all the great characters of the age; and this with impunity, their own persons and names being utterly secret and obscure.
199 ページ - Cyprian goddess weeping Mourn'd Adonis, darling youth : Him the boar, in silence creeping, Gor'd with unrelenting tooth. IV. Cynthia, tune harmonious numbers ; Fair Discretion, string the lyre ; Sooth my ever-waking slumbers : Bright Apollo, lend thy choir, V. Gloomy Pluto, king of terrors, Arm'd in adamantine chains, Lead me to the crystal mirrors, "Watering soft Elysian plains.
216 ページ - Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herself may die.
178 ページ - Bid her be all that cheers or softens life, The tender sister, daughter, friend, and wife; Bid her be all that makes mankind adore, Then view this marble, and be vain no more!