Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1787 |
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... fair town I'd have a private seat , Built uniform ; not little , nor too great ---- I'd have a clear and competent estate , That I might live genteelly , but not great ----- I'd have a little vault , but always stor'd With the best ...
... fair town I'd have a private seat , Built uniform ; not little , nor too great ---- I'd have a clear and competent estate , That I might live genteelly , but not great ----- I'd have a little vault , but always stor'd With the best ...
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... fair town I'd have a private seat , S Built uniform ; not little , nor too great ; Better if on a rising ground it stood , On this side fields , on that a neighb'ring wood : It should within no other things contain But what are useful ...
... fair town I'd have a private seat , S Built uniform ; not little , nor too great ; Better if on a rising ground it stood , On this side fields , on that a neighb'ring wood : It should within no other things contain But what are useful ...
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... fair to live ; For there's that sweetness in a female mind , Which in a man's we cannot hope to find ; That , by a secret but a pow'rful art , Winds up the spring of life , and does impart 105 Fresh vital heat to the transported heart ...
... fair to live ; For there's that sweetness in a female mind , Which in a man's we cannot hope to find ; That , by a secret but a pow'rful art , Winds up the spring of life , and does impart 105 Fresh vital heat to the transported heart ...
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... fair creature I'd sometimes retire , Her conversation would new joys inspire , Give life an edge so keen , no surly care Would venture to assault my soul , or dare Near my retreat , to hide one secret snare . But so divine , so noble ...
... fair creature I'd sometimes retire , Her conversation would new joys inspire , Give life an edge so keen , no surly care Would venture to assault my soul , or dare Near my retreat , to hide one secret snare . But so divine , so noble ...
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... fair ; " But safely to return from this abode " Requires the wit , the prudence , of a god ; " Tho ' you , who have not tasted that delight , " Which only at a distance charms your sight , " May , with a little toil , retrieve your ...
... fair ; " But safely to return from this abode " Requires the wit , the prudence , of a god ; " Tho ' you , who have not tasted that delight , " Which only at a distance charms your sight , " May , with a little toil , retrieve your ...
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Achilles Amyntas arms beauteous beauty behold blefs'd breaſt bright Cephalus charms Congreve death defire Delia delight dread earth eaſe eternal Ev'n ev'ry eyes face facred faid fair fame fate fear feem fhall fhining fhould fhows fighs fing fire firft firſt flain flame flow'rs foft fome fong foon forrows ftill fuch fure give goddeſs gods grace grief heart Heav'n heav'nly himſelf honour huſband immortal Jove laft LAMENTATION lefs light live lov'd lover lyre maid mighty mind moft mortal moſt mourn Mufe muft Muſe muſt ne'er numbers nymph o'er Otreus paffion pain peace Phrygia Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe Priam Procris purſues raiſe ſhall ſhe ſhow ſkies ſkill soul ſtate ſtill tears tender thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thro Thucydides Tithonus verfe verſe vex'd weep whofe whoſe wretched youth
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23 ページ - Baboons and apes ridiculous we find; For what ? for ill refembling humankind. " None are for being what they are in fault, " But for not being what they would be thought." Thus I, dear Friend! to you my thoughts impart, As to one perfect in the Pleafing art;
145 ページ - Let not her years exceed, if equal thine, For women past their vigour soon decline. Her fortune competent; and if thy sight Can reach so far, take care 'tis gather'd right. If thine's enough, then her's may be the less: Do not aspire to riches in excess; For that which makes our lives delightful prove,
13 ページ - Give life an edge so keen, no surly care Would venture to assault my soul, or dare Near my retreat, to hide one secret snare. But so divine, so noble, a repast I'd seldom, and with moderation taste; 135
67 ページ - all that heav'n of beauty come! And muft Paftora moulder in the tomb! Ah, Death! more fierce and unrelenting far Than wildeft wolves or favage tigers are; With lambs and flieep their hungers are appeas'd, But ravenous Death the
37 ページ - he fits upon, Whofe memory of found is long fince gone, And purpofely annihilated for his throne; Beneath two foft tranfparent clouds do meet, In which he feems to fink his fofter feet; A melancholy thought, condens'd to air, Stol'n from a lover in defpair, Like a thin mantle
109 ページ - and laid his paffion ; The fhepherd ceas'd reviling, And fung this recantation. PALINODE. " How engaging, how endearing, '* Is a lover's pain and care! ** And what joy the nymph's appearing " After abfence or defpair! " Women wife increafe defiring, •* By contriving kind delays, " And advancing or retiring, " All they mean is more to pleafe.
140 ページ - A thorny bramble pricks her tender breast; In warbling melody she spends the night, And moves at once compassion and delight. No choice had e'er so happy an event But he that made it did that choice repent. So weak's our judgment, and so short's our
13 ページ - Courage to look bold Danger in the face; No fear, but only to be proud or base ; Quick to advise, by an emergence prest, 115 To give good counsel, or to take the best: I'd have th'expression of her thoughts be such, She might not seem reserv'd, nor talk too much ; That shews a want of judgment and of sense ; More than enough is but impertinence:
91 ページ - authors, too, by their fuccefs of late, Begin to think third days are out of date. What can the caufe be that our plays wont keep, Unlefs they have a rot fome years, like fheep.' For our parts, we confefs we're quite afham'd To read fuch weekly bills of poets damn'd.
112 ページ - In whom there are the least remains Of piety or fear, His tribute brings of joyful sacrifice, For pardon prays, and for protection flies: Nay, the inanimate creation give, By prompt obedience to his word, Instinctive honour to their Lord, And shame the thinking world who in