Virgidemiarum: SatiresWilliam Pickering, 1825 - 151 strán (strany) |
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Strana 8
... shame , And crown'd with vertues meed , immortall name ; Infamy dispossest of natiue due , Ordain'd of old on looser life to sue ; The worlds eye bleared with those shamelesse lyes , Mask'd in the shew of meal - mouth'd poesies . Go ...
... shame , And crown'd with vertues meed , immortall name ; Infamy dispossest of natiue due , Ordain'd of old on looser life to sue ; The worlds eye bleared with those shamelesse lyes , Mask'd in the shew of meal - mouth'd poesies . Go ...
Strana 10
... , Defloured were : And euer since , disdaining sacred shame , 15 Done ought that might their heauenly stock defame . Now is Parnassus turned to a stewes , And on 10 VIRGIDEMIARVM . Ancient frugality and modern luxury, SAT II Stately tombs,
... , Defloured were : And euer since , disdaining sacred shame , 15 Done ought that might their heauenly stock defame . Now is Parnassus turned to a stewes , And on 10 VIRGIDEMIARVM . Ancient frugality and modern luxury, SAT II Stately tombs,
Strana 13
... Shame that the Muses should be bought and sold , For euerie peasants brasse , on each scaffold . 50 55 SAT . IV . Too popular is tragicke poesie , Strayning his tip - toes for a farthing fee , And doth besides on rimelesse numbers tread ...
... Shame that the Muses should be bought and sold , For euerie peasants brasse , on each scaffold . 50 55 SAT . IV . Too popular is tragicke poesie , Strayning his tip - toes for a farthing fee , And doth besides on rimelesse numbers tread ...
Strana 18
... shame Shall waite vpon your once prophaned name . Take this , ye Muses , this so high despight , And let all hatefull lucklesse birds of night , Let scriching owles nest in your razed roofes , And let your floore with horned satyres ...
... shame Shall waite vpon your once prophaned name . Take this , ye Muses , this so high despight , And let all hatefull lucklesse birds of night , Let scriching owles nest in your razed roofes , And let your floore with horned satyres ...
Strana 20
... shame , write better , Labeo , or write none , Or better write , or Labeo write alone ; Nay , call the Cynick but a wittie foole , Thence to abiure his handsome drinking bole , 5 10 Because the thirstie swaine , with hollow hand.
... shame , write better , Labeo , or write none , Or better write , or Labeo write alone ; Nay , call the Cynick but a wittie foole , Thence to abiure his handsome drinking bole , 5 10 Because the thirstie swaine , with hollow hand.
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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...