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... once famous and formidable . The players , at least , felt him to be so . Garrick himself , who though extolled in the Rosciad was sarcastically alluded to in the Apology , courted him like a suppliant ; and his satire had the effect of ...
... once famous and formidable . The players , at least , felt him to be so . Garrick himself , who though extolled in the Rosciad was sarcastically alluded to in the Apology , courted him like a suppliant ; and his satire had the effect of ...
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... once the clerical habit and profession , and arrayed his ungainly form in the splendour of fashion , Amidst the remarks of his enemies , and what he pronounces the still more insulting advice of his prudent friends upon his irregular ...
... once the clerical habit and profession , and arrayed his ungainly form in the splendour of fashion , Amidst the remarks of his enemies , and what he pronounces the still more insulting advice of his prudent friends upon his irregular ...
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... once held dear , what fear , at strife With fainting virtue for the means of life , Might make this coward flesh , in love with breath , Shudd'ring at pain , and shrinking back from death , In treason to my soul , descend to bear , 6 ...
... once held dear , what fear , at strife With fainting virtue for the means of life , Might make this coward flesh , in love with breath , Shudd'ring at pain , and shrinking back from death , In treason to my soul , descend to bear , 6 ...
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... Once , at this hour those wounds afresh I feel , Which nor prosperity nor time can heal , Those wounds , which humbled all that pride of man , Which brings such mighty aid to virtue's plan ; Once , aw'd by fortune's most oppressive ...
... Once , at this hour those wounds afresh I feel , Which nor prosperity nor time can heal , Those wounds , which humbled all that pride of man , Which brings such mighty aid to virtue's plan ; Once , aw'd by fortune's most oppressive ...
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... once , the actor and the man . In Brute he shone unequall'd : all agree Garrick's not half so great a brute as he . When Cato's labour'd scenes are brought to view , With equal praise the actor labour'd too ; For still you'll find ...
... once , the actor and the man . In Brute he shone unequall'd : all agree Garrick's not half so great a brute as he . When Cato's labour'd scenes are brought to view , With equal praise the actor labour'd too ; For still you'll find ...
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Página 284 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 285 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Página 290 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Página 291 - That call'd them from their native walks away ; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, Hung round the bowers, and fondly...
Página 286 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Página 191 - Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, That hush'd the stormy main : Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed : Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloudtopt head. On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smear'd with gore, and ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by.
Página 440 - Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.
Página 288 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 47 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Página 287 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale...