The Poet: A PoemW. Flexney, 1773 - 47 עמודים |
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עמוד 11
... happy few , who , in your genial hours , Feel the fine raptures raised by fancy's powers ----- -While great Cervantes , in a Moorish jail , But free in mind , composed his wondrous tale ; His wondrous tale , which , with unrivalled art ...
... happy few , who , in your genial hours , Feel the fine raptures raised by fancy's powers ----- -While great Cervantes , in a Moorish jail , But free in mind , composed his wondrous tale ; His wondrous tale , which , with unrivalled art ...
עמוד 21
... happy ftar befriends . Perhaps this bard , ' mongst other freaks of chance , Was doomed to lengthen fuperftition's trance ; Was doomed to footh the mad enthusiast's dream , To fink the moral in the myftic theme ; To ftrike , with ...
... happy ftar befriends . Perhaps this bard , ' mongst other freaks of chance , Was doomed to lengthen fuperftition's trance ; Was doomed to footh the mad enthusiast's dream , To fink the moral in the myftic theme ; To ftrike , with ...
עמוד 24
... happy hours employ , Strong is thy verse , Elysian is thy joy . Then all the magick of the muse is thine , Their powers , idea , and expression join ; And word gives force to word , and line ennobles line . Mufic , from rapture sprun ...
... happy hours employ , Strong is thy verse , Elysian is thy joy . Then all the magick of the muse is thine , Their powers , idea , and expression join ; And word gives force to word , and line ennobles line . Mufic , from rapture sprun ...
עמוד 25
... Happy their bard , to find some hackneyed scene , The crystal fountain , or the velvet green ! Him fancy in his calmer hours infpires , When warmed by books and her with gentler fires ; When Livy , or when Tacitus he reads , And ...
... Happy their bard , to find some hackneyed scene , The crystal fountain , or the velvet green ! Him fancy in his calmer hours infpires , When warmed by books and her with gentler fires ; When Livy , or when Tacitus he reads , And ...
עמוד 41
... happy gale ; Fair blows the breeze , and gently fwells the fail ; Of no rude ftorm are you the fatal fport , By a strait course your pilot makes the port . But Poets , born beneath a baleful star , Fortune opposes with perpetual war ...
... happy gale ; Fair blows the breeze , and gently fwells the fail ; Of no rude ftorm are you the fatal fport , By a strait course your pilot makes the port . But Poets , born beneath a baleful star , Fortune opposes with perpetual war ...
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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
קטעים בולטים
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...