The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English Poets. With an Account of Their Writings, Volumen2A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor and F. Batley, 1723 - 360 páginas |
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... Thee to thy felf : Nor blame Our drooping loves , which thus to thy own Fame Leave thee Executor : fince , but thy own , No Pen could do thee Justice , nor Bays Crown Thy vaft Defert : Save that , we nothing can Depute , to be thy Ashes ...
... Thee to thy felf : Nor blame Our drooping loves , which thus to thy own Fame Leave thee Executor : fince , but thy own , No Pen could do thee Justice , nor Bays Crown Thy vaft Defert : Save that , we nothing can Depute , to be thy Ashes ...
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... Thee . *** The Reverend Mr. RICHARD DU K E. HIS Gentleman , the Son of an Eminent Ci- tizen of London , was Educated at Westminster School , and from thence Elected to Trinity College in Cambridge . He was fome time Tutor to the Duke of ...
... Thee . *** The Reverend Mr. RICHARD DU K E. HIS Gentleman , the Son of an Eminent Ci- tizen of London , was Educated at Westminster School , and from thence Elected to Trinity College in Cambridge . He was fome time Tutor to the Duke of ...
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... thee to Worlds where all Toil refts , Where Bliss is fubject to no Fear's defeatings ; Her Praife I tune whofe Tongue doth tune the Spheres , And gets new Mufes in her Hearers Ears . Stars fall to fetch fresh Light from her rich Eyes ...
... thee to Worlds where all Toil refts , Where Bliss is fubject to no Fear's defeatings ; Her Praife I tune whofe Tongue doth tune the Spheres , And gets new Mufes in her Hearers Ears . Stars fall to fetch fresh Light from her rich Eyes ...
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... thee for the kindness I have felt , Her Lips one Kifs would unto Nectar melt . During his ftay at this Court , he ... Thee , Our Lady's Chappel henceforth be thou ram'd ; Here firft Love's Queen put on Mortality , And with her Beauty all ...
... thee for the kindness I have felt , Her Lips one Kifs would unto Nectar melt . During his ftay at this Court , he ... Thee , Our Lady's Chappel henceforth be thou ram'd ; Here firft Love's Queen put on Mortality , And with her Beauty all ...
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... thee fhines , None enter Thee , but ftrait intranced are . O ! if Elizium be above the Ground , Then here it is , where nought but Joy is found . This Noble Earl was one of the chief Refiners of the English Tongue , and his Poetry must ...
... thee fhines , None enter Thee , but ftrait intranced are . O ! if Elizium be above the Ground , Then here it is , where nought but Joy is found . This Noble Earl was one of the chief Refiners of the English Tongue , and his Poetry must ...
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Página 198 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 104 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Página 255 - To his friends' pity, and pursuers' scorn, With shame remembers while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Thence to the coverts and the conscious groves, The scenes of his past triumphs and his loves.
Página 147 - Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Página 196 - Sidney rais'd his Gratuity to Two Hundred Pounds, and commanded the Steward to give it immediately, lest as he read further, he might be tempted to give away his whole Estate.
Página 144 - I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live. And as I near approach'd the verge of life, Some kind relation (for I'd have no wife) Should take upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better state prepare.
Página 257 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants.
Página 105 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Página 174 - His behaviour was easy and courteous to all ; but distinguished and adapted to each man in particular, according to his station and quality. His civility was free from the formality of rule, and flowed immediately from his good sense.
Página 276 - He kept up his good" humour to the laft ; and took leave of " his wife and friends, immediately before " his laft agony, with the fame tranquillity " of mind, and the fame indifference for " life, as though he had been upon taking " but a fhort journey. He was twice mar" ried, firft to a daughter of Mr.