Poems on Several Occasions..Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's-Head over against Katharine-Street in the Strand, and John Barber upon Lambert Hill., 1718 - 506 páginas |
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Matthew Prior. · Verfe : and Dr. SPRAT , in the Delicacy and Turn of his Profe . DRYDEN determines by Him , under the Cha- racter of Eugenius ; as to the Laws of Dramatick Poetry . BUTLER Ow'd it to Him , that the Court tafted his Hu ...
Matthew Prior. · Verfe : and Dr. SPRAT , in the Delicacy and Turn of his Profe . DRYDEN determines by Him , under the Cha- racter of Eugenius ; as to the Laws of Dramatick Poetry . BUTLER Ow'd it to Him , that the Court tafted his Hu ...
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... turn the great Drawings and wonderful Colourings to their true Light ; the Whole must appear Beautiful , Noble , Admirable . He poffeffed all those Virtues in the highest Degree , upon which the Pleasure of Society , and the Happiness ...
... turn the great Drawings and wonderful Colourings to their true Light ; the Whole must appear Beautiful , Noble , Admirable . He poffeffed all those Virtues in the highest Degree , upon which the Pleasure of Society , and the Happiness ...
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... Turn they can ; but Poetry , which pretends to have fomething of Divinity in it , is to be more permanent . Odes once printed cannot well be altered , when the Author has al- ready faid , that He expects His Works fhould Live for Ever ...
... Turn they can ; but Poetry , which pretends to have fomething of Divinity in it , is to be more permanent . Odes once printed cannot well be altered , when the Author has al- ready faid , that He expects His Works fhould Live for Ever ...
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... my Poe- tical Goods at once : I must therefore defire , that the Public would please to take them in the Grofs ; and that every Body would turn over what He does not like . THE THE NAM A ME S OF THE SUBSCRIBERS . Dr. POSTSCRIPT .
... my Poe- tical Goods at once : I must therefore defire , that the Public would please to take them in the Grofs ; and that every Body would turn over what He does not like . THE THE NAM A ME S OF THE SUBSCRIBERS . Dr. POSTSCRIPT .
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... Turns to move , and subsequent appear , To gird the Globe , and regulate the Year ? VI . Man does with dangerous Curiofity These unfathom'd Wonders try : With fancy'd Rules and arbitrary Laws Matter and Motion he restrains ; And study'd ...
... Turns to move , and subsequent appear , To gird the Globe , and regulate the Year ? VI . Man does with dangerous Curiofity These unfathom'd Wonders try : With fancy'd Rules and arbitrary Laws Matter and Motion he restrains ; And study'd ...
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Página 423 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Página 90 - Pointing, the lovely moralist said : See, friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made. Ah me! the blooming pride of May, And that of beauty are but one: At morn both...
Página 352 - To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.
Página 95 - The god of us verse-men (you know Child) the sun, How after his journeys he sets up his rest : If at morning o'er earth 'tis his fancy to run ; At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast.
Página 465 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Página 465 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Página 22 - IN vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas ! what winds can happy prove, That bear me far from what I love ? Alas ! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain?
Página 465 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Página 474 - And apter utensils their place supply. These things and thou must share one equal lot: Die, and be lost, corrupt, and be forgot; While still another, and another race Shall now supply, and now give up the place: From earth all came, to earth must all return; Frail as the cord, and brittle as the urn.
Página 465 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.