The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the AuthorB. Johnson, J. Johnson and R. Johnson, 1805 - Всего страниц: 132 |
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... hope it is no very cynical asperity , not to confess ob- ligations , where no benefit has been received , or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron , which Providence has enabled me to do for myself ...
... hope it is no very cynical asperity , not to confess ob- ligations , where no benefit has been received , or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron , which Providence has enabled me to do for myself ...
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... hope from censure or from praise ; there cannot be a doubt but that he was highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home and abroad . The Earl of Corke and Orrery , being at Florence , presented it to the Academia della ...
... hope from censure or from praise ; there cannot be a doubt but that he was highly gratified by the reputation it acquired both at home and abroad . The Earl of Corke and Orrery , being at Florence , presented it to the Academia della ...
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... what I cannot do for myself , the law shall do for me ; I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian ! What would you have me retract ? I thought your book DR . JOHNSON . 33.
... what I cannot do for myself , the law shall do for me ; I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian ! What would you have me retract ? I thought your book DR . JOHNSON . 33.
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... hope but soothes to double my distress , And ev'ry moment leaves my little less ; While yet my steady steps no staff sustains , And life , still vigʼrous , revels in my veins ; Grant me , kind heaven , to find some happier place , Where ...
... hope but soothes to double my distress , And ev'ry moment leaves my little less ; While yet my steady steps no staff sustains , And life , still vigʼrous , revels in my veins ; Grant me , kind heaven , to find some happier place , Where ...
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... hope remains for me , Who start at theft , and blush at perjury ? Who scarce forbear , though Britain's court he sing , To pluck a titled poet's borrow'd wing ; A statesman's logic unconvinc'd can hear , And dare to LONDON : A SATIRE . 55.
... hope remains for me , Who start at theft , and blush at perjury ? Who scarce forbear , though Britain's court he sing , To pluck a titled poet's borrow'd wing ; A statesman's logic unconvinc'd can hear , And dare to LONDON : A SATIRE . 55.
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Стр. 22 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Стр. 21 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Стр. 67 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still, through all the song : And, where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Стр. 19 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring ' Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Стр. 69 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Стр. 58 - With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dogdays, in December sweat. How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly Virtue hope to fix a friend...
Стр. 58 - If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear. Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Стр. 80 - 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.
Стр. 99 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Стр. 68 - Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For why did Wolsey near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise th