Virgidemiarum: SatiresWilliam Pickering, 1825 - 151 strán (strany) |
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... muse and me , For this so rude and recklesse poesie . 30 Would she but shade her tender browes with bay , That now lye bare in carelesse wilfull rage ; And trance herselfe in that sweete extasey , That rouzeth drouping thoughts of ...
... muse and me , For this so rude and recklesse poesie . 30 Would she but shade her tender browes with bay , That now lye bare in carelesse wilfull rage ; And trance herselfe in that sweete extasey , That rouzeth drouping thoughts of ...
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... vainly faint in hoplesse following The clouded paths her natiue drosse denies . But now such lowly satyres here I sing , Not worth our Muse , not worth her enuying , 55 . 60 65 Too good ( if ill ) to be expos'd to DEFIANCE TO ENUIE . 5.
... vainly faint in hoplesse following The clouded paths her natiue drosse denies . But now such lowly satyres here I sing , Not worth our Muse , not worth her enuying , 55 . 60 65 Too good ( if ill ) to be expos'd to DEFIANCE TO ENUIE . 5.
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... muses , how I wilfull song These heddy rimes , withouten second care ; And wish't them worse , my guiltie thoughts among : 75 The ruder satyre should go rag'd and bare , And show his rougher and his hairy hide , Tho mine be smooth , and ...
... muses , how I wilfull song These heddy rimes , withouten second care ; And wish't them worse , my guiltie thoughts among : 75 The ruder satyre should go rag'd and bare , And show his rougher and his hairy hide , Tho mine be smooth , and ...
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... Muses , sith your sacred hests Profaned are by each presuming tongue , In scornfull rage I vow this silent rest , That neuer field nor groue shall heare my song ; Only these refuse rymes I here mispend , 110 To chide the world , that ...
... Muses , sith your sacred hests Profaned are by each presuming tongue , In scornfull rage I vow this silent rest , That neuer field nor groue shall heare my song ; Only these refuse rymes I here mispend , 110 To chide the world , that ...
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... with those shamelesse lyes , Mask'd in the shew of meal - mouth'd poesies . Go , daring Muse , on with thy thanklesse taske , And do the vgly face of vice vnmaske ; 15 20 And if thou canst not thine high flight remit , LIB III.
... with those shamelesse lyes , Mask'd in the shew of meal - mouth'd poesies . Go , daring Muse , on with thy thanklesse taske , And do the vgly face of vice vnmaske ; 15 20 And if thou canst not thine high flight remit , LIB III.
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Strana iv - Lo, there th' unthankful swallow takes her rest, And fills the tunnel with her circled nest. " His satires are neither cramped by personal hostility, nor spun out to vague declamations on vice ; but give us the form and pressure of the times, exhibited in the faults of coeval literature, and in the foppery or sordid traits of prevailing manners. The age was undoubtedly fertile in eccentricity.
Strana 89 - Satyrs should be like the Porcupine, That shoots sharpe quils out in each angry line, And wounds the blushing cheeke, and fiery eye, Of him that heares, and readeth guiltily.
Strana 12 - One higher pitch'd doth set his soaring thought On crowned kings, that Fortune hath low brought: Or some upreared, high-aspiring swaine, As it might be the Turkish Tamberlaine...
Strana xiii - These satires are marked with a classical precision to which English poetry had yet rarely attained. They are replete with animation of style and sentiment.
Strana 93 - Megwra in the tragedie, Threatning her twined snakes at Tantales ghost ; Or the grim visage of some frowning post, The crab-tree porter of the Guild-hall gates ; Whiles he his frightfull beetle eleuates, 10 His angry eyne looke all so glaring bright, Like th...
Strana 60 - And tells how first his famous ancestor Did come in long since with the Conquerour. Nor hath some bribed herald first assign'd His quartered arms and crest of gentle kind ; The Scottish Barnacle, if I might choose, That, of a worme, doth waxe a winged goose.
Strana 74 - All scarfed with pied colours to the knee, Whom Indian pillage hath made fortunate, And now he 'gins to loath his former state...
Strana 126 - Halifax, next after such his apprehension, and being condemned, be taken to the Gibbet, and there have his head cut off from his body.
Strana 34 - Could no unhusked acorn leave the tree But there was challenge made whose it might be And if some nice and...