The Poet: A PoemW. Flexney, 1773 - 47 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 15
עמוד 5
... fame , And life devote to an immortal name . Whatever objects to mankind are dear Within the fenfitive , or mental sphere ; To life whatever comforts make us cling , A ten - fold pleasure to the Poet bring . Then with what strong ...
... fame , And life devote to an immortal name . Whatever objects to mankind are dear Within the fenfitive , or mental sphere ; To life whatever comforts make us cling , A ten - fold pleasure to the Poet bring . Then with what strong ...
עמוד 11
... fame ; Fired by the fable , like the knight we rave , And long to vifit good * Quixano's grave- -While thus , ye happy few , his ardent foul , Of cruel fortune spurned the dire controul ; Maintained the right to chofen spirits given ...
... fame ; Fired by the fable , like the knight we rave , And long to vifit good * Quixano's grave- -While thus , ye happy few , his ardent foul , Of cruel fortune spurned the dire controul ; Maintained the right to chofen spirits given ...
עמוד 12
... fame , The heart - felt mufick of a poet's name , The world ideal which abforbs the mind , ' He leaves his weaknesses , and wants behind . The Delian God his hallowed bofom fills , Precluding phyfical , and moral ills .: J These are the ...
... fame , The heart - felt mufick of a poet's name , The world ideal which abforbs the mind , ' He leaves his weaknesses , and wants behind . The Delian God his hallowed bofom fills , Precluding phyfical , and moral ills .: J These are the ...
עמוד 16
... fame ; And would your selfish muse the buskin try ; --- Think not to warm the heart , but catch the eye . Think not to move the house with Shakespeare's foul ; But let his lightnings flash , his thunders roll : Contrive a full ...
... fame ; And would your selfish muse the buskin try ; --- Think not to warm the heart , but catch the eye . Think not to move the house with Shakespeare's foul ; But let his lightnings flash , his thunders roll : Contrive a full ...
עמוד 18
... fame ? Write you with . Dryden's force ? yet you may fail ; LANGHORNE before you draws his flimsy * Veil : A monkish tale , by PERCY told , is read ; And feeble MASON lives while you are dead . Yet , though through life you meet unequal ...
... fame ? Write you with . Dryden's force ? yet you may fail ; LANGHORNE before you draws his flimsy * Veil : A monkish tale , by PERCY told , is read ; And feeble MASON lives while you are dead . Yet , though through life you meet unequal ...
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admire Againſt applauſe ardent bard blifs bliſs bofom bower breaſt breath brighteſt calm cauſe charms Condemned controul courſe Curfe deeds diſdain diſplay divine dull Engliſh envy fame fancy fancy's fate fcene feel feeming fentiment fhame fhow filver fimple fire firſt flame flave flow fmile focial fome fometimes fons fools footh fortune foul ftate ftill fublimated fuffer furveys genius gives gloomy day glory glory's greatneſs grofs heart heaven hour houſe human kind immortal inſpired juft kings laſt laws live luftre maid mankind mind moral mufes Muft muſe muſt nature's ne'er nymph o'er Paffion pain penfive phlegm pleaſure poet's Poets praiſe prepofterous profe rafhly raiſed rapture renown rouze ſcenes ſee ſelfiſh Shakeſpeare Shakeſpeare's ſhould ſhow ſome ſtar ſtate ſtore ſtrain ſtream ſtrong ſweets taſte theme theſe thofe thoſe thought trifling truth Twill verfe verſe virtue vulgar warm whofe Whoſe ye Men
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עמוד 31 - Heroes are much the fame, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole ftrange purpofe of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! . , "Not one looks backward, onward ftill he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nofc.
עמוד 12 - WANDERER, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.
עמוד 35 - Sed quando munitam figulis intraverat urbem, &c. and which Mr. S. presumes to be correct, seems to prove that this surprising genius is quite as great a master of Latin prosody as of English. The last poem is the rhapsody of a hero...
עמוד 27 - Better, he thinks, deferves the lyric bays Than Pindar, for his Greek, and age renowned, Now in the...
עמוד 39 - Whole fermons recommend his generous deeds; Who urges morals, and relaxes creeds; Who makes the...