The Poet: A PoemW. Flexney, 1773 - 47 עמודים |
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עמוד 3
... genius hovers o'er his head ; A heedlefs victim , now , to low defire ; All nerve his body , and his foul all fire ? Hail , mild Philofophy I the province thine , To chace the spectres of the dark Divine ! Not to fix errour , but with ...
... genius hovers o'er his head ; A heedlefs victim , now , to low defire ; All nerve his body , and his foul all fire ? Hail , mild Philofophy I the province thine , To chace the spectres of the dark Divine ! Not to fix errour , but with ...
עמוד 5
... Genius and judgment happily confpire , And calm defign directs impetuous fire . Gay fiction now adorns important truth ; He checks the intemperate fallies of his youth ; With eye severe the brilliant line furveys , Conscious that poets ...
... Genius and judgment happily confpire , And calm defign directs impetuous fire . Gay fiction now adorns important truth ; He checks the intemperate fallies of his youth ; With eye severe the brilliant line furveys , Conscious that poets ...
עמוד 6
... genius , and awaking love ; The Poet , and his nymph fequestered stray , Where magic fancy points the enchanted way . The birds their carols chaunt ; the jocund fpring Sheds all Arabia from his purple wing : Soft zephyr breathes , with ...
... genius , and awaking love ; The Poet , and his nymph fequestered stray , Where magic fancy points the enchanted way . The birds their carols chaunt ; the jocund fpring Sheds all Arabia from his purple wing : Soft zephyr breathes , with ...
עמוד 10
... genius , by excurfive thought ; Strongly * That I may strongly exemplify the conftitution and fortune of the poet , I fhall here quote two paffages from Johnson's Life of Savage : though , I fear , the energy and harmony of their profe ...
... genius , by excurfive thought ; Strongly * That I may strongly exemplify the conftitution and fortune of the poet , I fhall here quote two paffages from Johnson's Life of Savage : though , I fear , the energy and harmony of their profe ...
עמוד 13
... genius , deigns not an appeal- To those who gape and ftare , but those who feel ; To those who foar , like him , on fancy's wings , To thofe hofe fouls revibrate what he fings . .W But as the different talents of mankind : Act , in ...
... genius , deigns not an appeal- To those who gape and ftare , but those who feel ; To those who foar , like him , on fancy's wings , To thofe hofe fouls revibrate what he fings . .W But as the different talents of mankind : Act , in ...
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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...