Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1787 |
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... o'er Reason do prevail , 150 " I may be , sure , from rigid censures free ; " Love was my foe , and Love's a deity . ” Then she rejoin'd ; " May you succesful prove " In your attempt to curb imperious Love ; " Then will proud passion ...
... o'er Reason do prevail , 150 " I may be , sure , from rigid censures free ; " Love was my foe , and Love's a deity . ” Then she rejoin'd ; " May you succesful prove " In your attempt to curb imperious Love ; " Then will proud passion ...
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... o'er his head " A poniard hung but by a single thread ? * " Love's banquets are extravagantly sweet , " And either kill or surfeit all that eat , " Who , when the sated appetite is tir'd , 245 250 258 260 " Ev'n loath the thoughts of ...
... o'er his head " A poniard hung but by a single thread ? * " Love's banquets are extravagantly sweet , " And either kill or surfeit all that eat , " Who , when the sated appetite is tir'd , 245 250 258 260 " Ev'n loath the thoughts of ...
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... o'er the fruitful plains ! [ swains ! While she , for ever ravish'd from our eyes , To mingle with her kindred of the skies , 105 Did for your peace her constant thoughts employ , The nymph's good angel , and the shepherd's joy ! Cos ...
... o'er the fruitful plains ! [ swains ! While she , for ever ravish'd from our eyes , To mingle with her kindred of the skies , 105 Did for your peace her constant thoughts employ , The nymph's good angel , and the shepherd's joy ! Cos ...
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... o'er beautiful Celestia's urn ? So great a loss as this deserves excess Of sorrow ; all's too little that is less . But to supply the universal woe , 160 Tears from all eyes , without cessation , flow ; All that have pow'r to weep , or ...
... o'er beautiful Celestia's urn ? So great a loss as this deserves excess Of sorrow ; all's too little that is less . But to supply the universal woe , 160 Tears from all eyes , without cessation , flow ; All that have pow'r to weep , or ...
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... O'er all the efforts of her mind presides , And to the noblest end her labours guides : She knows the best , and does the best pursue , And treads the maze of life without a clue ; That the weak only and the wav'ring lack , When they're ...
... O'er all the efforts of her mind presides , And to the noblest end her labours guides : She knows the best , and does the best pursue , And treads the maze of life without a clue ; That the weak only and the wav'ring lack , When they're ...
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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