Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse and ProseJ. Dodsley, 1770 - 452 strán (strany) |
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Strana 4
... muft melt with fierce defire , When art and motion wake the fleeping fire : A VENUS drawn by great Apelles ' hand , May for a while our wond'ring eyes command , But ftill , tho ' form'd with all the pow'rs of art , The lifeless piece ...
... muft melt with fierce defire , When art and motion wake the fleeping fire : A VENUS drawn by great Apelles ' hand , May for a while our wond'ring eyes command , But ftill , tho ' form'd with all the pow'rs of art , The lifeless piece ...
Strana 13
... muft obedient prove , If e'er we hope with graceful ease to move . Long was the dancing art unfixt , and free , Hence loft in error , and uncertainty ; No precepts did it mind , or rules obey , But ev'ry mafter taught a different way ...
... muft obedient prove , If e'er we hope with graceful ease to move . Long was the dancing art unfixt , and free , Hence loft in error , and uncertainty ; No precepts did it mind , or rules obey , But ev'ry mafter taught a different way ...
Strana 17
... muft in each movement dwell , Which words can ne'er exprefs , or precepts tell , Not to be taught , but ever to be feen In FLAVIA's air , and CHLOE's easy mien ; ' Tis fuch an air that makes her thousands fall , When FIELDING dances at ...
... muft in each movement dwell , Which words can ne'er exprefs , or precepts tell , Not to be taught , but ever to be feen In FLAVIA's air , and CHLOE's easy mien ; ' Tis fuch an air that makes her thousands fall , When FIELDING dances at ...
Strana 20
... muft his hand be pointing out the way , Yet ne'er can teach fo faft as fhe can ftray ; Beneath her follies he muft ever groan , And ever blush for errors not his own . h But now behold united hand in hand , Rang'd on each fide , the ...
... muft his hand be pointing out the way , Yet ne'er can teach fo faft as fhe can ftray ; Beneath her follies he muft ever groan , And ever blush for errors not his own . h But now behold united hand in hand , Rang'd on each fide , the ...
Strana 38
... muft virtue be . Then what is that ? not want of power , or fame , Or worlds unnumber'd to applaud his name , But a defire his bleffings to diffuse , And fear leaft millions fhou'd exiftence lofe ; His goodness only cou'd his power ...
... muft virtue be . Then what is that ? not want of power , or fame , Or worlds unnumber'd to applaud his name , But a defire his bleffings to diffuse , And fear leaft millions fhou'd exiftence lofe ; His goodness only cou'd his power ...
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Strana 266 - Ignorance, or the want of knowledge and literature, the appointed lot of all born to poverty, and the drudgeries of life, is the only opiate capable of infusing that insensibility which can enable them to endure the miseries of the one and the fatigues of the other. It is a cordial administered by the gracious hand of Providence ; of which they ought never to be deprived by an ill-judged and improper education.
Strana 20 - Quick bufy hands, and bridling heads declare, The fond impatience of the ftarting fair. And fee, the fprightly dance is now begun ! Now here, now there the giddy maze they run, Now with flow fteps they pace the circling ring, Now all confus'd, too fwift for fight they fpring : So, in a wheel with rapid fury tofs'd, Tho undiftinguim'd fpokes are in the motion loft.
Strana 52 - He digs no longer in th' exhaufted mine, But feeks preferment, as the laft refort, Cringes each morn at levees, bows at court, And, from the hand he hates, implores fupport...
Strana 30 - fquires: Attorneys, for a barley-ftraw, Whole ages hamper folks in law; And every neighbour's in a flame About their rates, or tythes, or game : Some quarrel for their hares and pigeons, And fome for difference in religions...
Strana 279 - Evil ever so great, it could not be remedied but by one much greater, which is by living for ever ; by which means our...
Strana 44 - ... us here, To guide our views to a fublimer fphere, In more exalted joys to fix our tafte, And wean us from delights that cannot laft. Our prefent good the eafy tafk is made, To earn fuperior blifs, when this...
Strana 40 - Hence youth good-humour, frugal craft old-age, Warm politicians term It party-rage, True churchmen zeal right orthodox ; and hence Fools think it gravity, and wits pretence ; To conftancy alone fond lovers join it, And maids unafk'd to chaftity confine it. But have we then no law befides our will ? No juft criterion fix'd to good and ill ? As well at noon we may...
Strana 218 - ... and a great room is added behind to dine in, which, was it ever inhabited, would make all the little ones appear ftill lefs : but having never yet been...
Strana 34 - O'er all the rolling orbs on high, Vifit new worlds, and for a minute This old one fcorn...
Strana 23 - Ah, thoughtlefs fair ! the tempting draught refufe, When thus fore-warn'd by my experienc'd Mufe ; Let the fad confequence your thoughts employ, Nor hazard future pains, for prefent joy, Deftruftion lurks within the pois'nous dofe, A fatal fever, or a pimpled nofe. Thus thro...