A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, Volumen1Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1755 |
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... truth , or rais'd fome ferious fong ; There patient show'd us the wife course to steer , A candid cenfor , and a friend severe ; There taught us how to live ; and ( oh ! too high The price for knowledge ) taught us how to die . Thou ...
... truth , or rais'd fome ferious fong ; There patient show'd us the wife course to steer , A candid cenfor , and a friend severe ; There taught us how to live ; and ( oh ! too high The price for knowledge ) taught us how to die . Thou ...
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... truth appear ; ( You know my language , and my heart , fincere . ) In vain did falfhood his fair fame disgrace ; What force had falfhood , when he show'd his face ! In vain to war our boaftful clans were led ; Heaps driven on heaps , in ...
... truth appear ; ( You know my language , and my heart , fincere . ) In vain did falfhood his fair fame disgrace ; What force had falfhood , when he show'd his face ! In vain to war our boaftful clans were led ; Heaps driven on heaps , in ...
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... truth . St. JAMES'S bell had toll'd fome wretches in , ( As tatter'd riding - hoods alone could fin ) The happier finners now their charms put out , And to their manteaus their complexions fuit ; The opera queens had finished half their ...
... truth . St. JAMES'S bell had toll'd fome wretches in , ( As tatter'd riding - hoods alone could fin ) The happier finners now their charms put out , And to their manteaus their complexions fuit ; The opera queens had finished half their ...
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... truth and innocence controul . Coquets , leave off affected arts , Gay fowlers at a flock of hearts ; Woodcocks to fhun your fnares have skill , You fhew fo plain , you ftrive to kill . In lo ve the artless catch the game , And they ...
... truth and innocence controul . Coquets , leave off affected arts , Gay fowlers at a flock of hearts ; Woodcocks to fhun your fnares have skill , You fhew fo plain , you ftrive to kill . In lo ve the artless catch the game , And they ...
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... with flaming fwords From lay - approach with zeal defend , Left their own paradife should end . The prefs from her fecundous womb Brought forth the arts of Greece and Rome ; Her Her offspring , fkill'd in logick war , Truth's banner [ 136 ]
... with flaming fwords From lay - approach with zeal defend , Left their own paradife should end . The prefs from her fecundous womb Brought forth the arts of Greece and Rome ; Her Her offspring , fkill'd in logick war , Truth's banner [ 136 ]
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Términos y frases comunes
æther beauty becauſe beneath bleft boaſt breaſt Britiſh cauſe charms courſe curs'd defire diftant dreadful eaſe endleſs Ev'n ev'ry eyes facred fafe fair falfe fame fate fatire fear fecret feems feen fenfe fhades fhall fhew fhun fide fighs filent fing firſt fkies flain fmile foes foft fome fons foon foul fpring ftate ftill ftream fuch Gaul grace happineſs heart heav'n houſe laft laſt lefs loft mind moſt mufe muft muſe muſt ne'er night nymph o'er paffion pain pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe pride proud publick purſue quæ quid rage raiſe reaſon reft rife ſcene ſeem ſeen ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhine ſhould ſhow ſkies ſkill ſmile ſome ſpeak Spleen ſpread ſtage ſtands ſtate ſtay ſtill ſweet thee Thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro uſe virtue whofe whoſe wife wiſh wou'd youth
Pasajes populares
Página 285 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Página 223 - But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Página 256 - But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain...
Página 200 - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Página 254 - Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair ; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are, To save from finger wet the letters fair ; The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St. George's high atchievements does declare-; On which thilk wight that has y-gazing been, Kens the forthcoming rod ; — unpleasing sight, I ween.
Página 208 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Página 25 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd ; or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven...
Página 195 - Here let those reign, whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black, a courtier white; Explain their country's dear-bought rights away, And plead for pirates in the face of day; With slavish tenets taint our poison'd youth, And lend a lie the confidence of truth.
Página 251 - Who should not honour'd eld with these revere: For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a Mind which did that title love.
Página 145 - Annuity securely made, A farm some twenty miles from town, Small, tight, salubrious, and my own: Two maids, that never saw the town, A...