The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English Poets. With an Account of Their Writings, Zväzok 2A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor and F. Batley, 1723 - 360 strán (strany) |
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Strana xxi
... happy to forbear fpeaking all one thinks , and to leave fomething for others to employ their Thoughts upon ; as in Profpects thofe are beft and moft pleafing , which leave us room to guess more than the Eye can discover . 97 , 4 For an ...
... happy to forbear fpeaking all one thinks , and to leave fomething for others to employ their Thoughts upon ; as in Profpects thofe are beft and moft pleafing , which leave us room to guess more than the Eye can discover . 97 , 4 For an ...
Strana xxiii
... happy Genius of Mr. Comley , and is fit for great and noble Subjects , fuch as are boundlefs as its own Numbers . • Satire is very different from either of the Poems aforemention'd , the chief Defign of it being to find fault : And this ...
... happy Genius of Mr. Comley , and is fit for great and noble Subjects , fuch as are boundlefs as its own Numbers . • Satire is very different from either of the Poems aforemention'd , the chief Defign of it being to find fault : And this ...
Strana 7
... happy Departure from Temporal Life , to Hea- venly Felicit Difplaying by the way , the Magna- " lia Chrifti , his Incarnation and Nativity , his Flight " into Egipt , his Fafting and Temptation , his chief " Miracles , his being Sold ...
... happy Departure from Temporal Life , to Hea- venly Felicit Difplaying by the way , the Magna- " lia Chrifti , his Incarnation and Nativity , his Flight " into Egipt , his Fafting and Temptation , his chief " Miracles , his being Sold ...
Strana 56
... , a Poem , very much cftcemed , and Scarce , wherein are the following Lines : • Thrice happy was the Worlds first . Infancy , Thrice 56 The Lives and Characters of the I, An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. THYNNE. ...
... , a Poem , very much cftcemed , and Scarce , wherein are the following Lines : • Thrice happy was the Worlds first . Infancy , Thrice 56 The Lives and Characters of the I, An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. THYNNE. ...
Strana 57
... happy was the Worlds first . Infancy , Nor knowing yet , nor curious ill to know Foy without Grief , Love without Jealousy ; None felt hard labour , or the fweating Plough : The willing Earth brought Tribute to her King And in another ...
... happy was the Worlds first . Infancy , Nor knowing yet , nor curious ill to know Foy without Grief , Love without Jealousy ; None felt hard labour , or the fweating Plough : The willing Earth brought Tribute to her King And in another ...
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The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the ..., Zväzok 2 Giles Jacob Úplné zobrazenie - 1723 |
The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the ..., Zväzok 2 Giles Jacob Úplné zobrazenie - 1720 |
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Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.