Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. Littleton. GaySamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
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... nature on your cheek bestows A bloom , that emulates the rofe , Or from fome heav'nly image drew A form , Apelles never knew , Your ill - judg'd aid will you impart , And fpoil by meretricious art ? Or had you , nature's error , come ...
... nature on your cheek bestows A bloom , that emulates the rofe , Or from fome heav'nly image drew A form , Apelles never knew , Your ill - judg'd aid will you impart , And fpoil by meretricious art ? Or had you , nature's error , come ...
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... nature , lavish of her care , From her beft pattern form you fair , That you , ungrateful to her caufe , Should mock her gifts , and fpurn her laws ? And mifer - like , with - hold that store , Which , by imparting , bleffes more ...
... nature , lavish of her care , From her beft pattern form you fair , That you , ungrateful to her caufe , Should mock her gifts , and fpurn her laws ? And mifer - like , with - hold that store , Which , by imparting , bleffes more ...
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... nature , And cries , Lord help us ! what a creature ! Meliffa , if the moral strike , You'll find the fable not unlikė . AN Owl , puff'd up with felf - conceit , Lov'd learning better than his meat j Old manufcripts he treafur'd up ...
... nature , And cries , Lord help us ! what a creature ! Meliffa , if the moral strike , You'll find the fable not unlikė . AN Owl , puff'd up with felf - conceit , Lov'd learning better than his meat j Old manufcripts he treafur'd up ...
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... nature- Upon my foul a charming creature ! ) Are there the comforts of a wife ? This careful , cloister'd , mopeing life ? No doubt , that odious thing call'd duty , ha fweet province for a beauty . Thou pretty ignorance ! thy will Is ...
... nature- Upon my foul a charming creature ! ) Are there the comforts of a wife ? This careful , cloister'd , mopeing life ? No doubt , that odious thing call'd duty , ha fweet province for a beauty . Thou pretty ignorance ! thy will Is ...
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... nature ; And this , to beings void of mind , Is wedlock , of a meaner kind . While womb'd in space , primæval clay A yet unfashion'd embryo lay , The fource of endless good above Shot down his fpark of kindling love ; Touch'd by the all ...
... nature ; And this , to beings void of mind , Is wedlock , of a meaner kind . While womb'd in space , primæval clay A yet unfashion'd embryo lay , The fource of endless good above Shot down his fpark of kindling love ; Touch'd by the all ...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ... Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1800 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 281 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Página 278 - Elegy written in a Country Churchyard The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 50 - Ye mute companions of my toils, that bear In all my griefs a more than equal...
Página 278 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 65 - Gaudy as the opening dawn, Lies a long and level lawn, On which a dark hill, steep and high, Holds and charms the wandering eye!
Página 276 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease...
Página 62 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch...
Página 173 - Low lays the house which that of cards doth build, Shall Dennis be ! if rigid fate incline, And many an epic to his rage shall yield; And many a poet quit th...
Página 102 - If the Author has hazarded, throughout, the use of English or modern allusions, he hopes it will not be imputed to an entire ignorance, or to the least disesteem of the ancient learning. He has kept the ancient plan and method in his eye, though he builds his edifice with the materials of his own nation.
Página 44 - Fresh to that soil thou turn'st, whose ev'ry vale Shall prompt the poet, and his song demand: To thee thy copious subjects ne'er shall fail; Thou need'st but take the pencil to thy hand, And paint what all believe who own thy genial land.