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... fame , or pleasure , as each af- fords the other . Every one acknowledges , it would be a wild no- tion to expect perfection in any work of man : and yet one would think the contrary was taken for granted , by the judgment commonly ...
... fame , or pleasure , as each af- fords the other . Every one acknowledges , it would be a wild no- tion to expect perfection in any work of man : and yet one would think the contrary was taken for granted , by the judgment commonly ...
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... fame than I durst declare till this occasion , when me- thinks I should find more credit than I could heretofore since my writings have had their fate already , and it is too late to think of prepossessing the reader in their favour . I ...
... fame than I durst declare till this occasion , when me- thinks I should find more credit than I could heretofore since my writings have had their fate already , and it is too late to think of prepossessing the reader in their favour . I ...
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... fame , as in the sea their streams . Let Volga's banks with iron squadrons shine , And groves of lances glitter on the Rhine , Let barbarous Ganges arin a servile train ; Be mine the blessings of a peaceful reign . No more my sons shall ...
... fame , as in the sea their streams . Let Volga's banks with iron squadrons shine , And groves of lances glitter on the Rhine , Let barbarous Ganges arin a servile train ; Be mine the blessings of a peaceful reign . No more my sons shall ...
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... fame , And justly bear a critic's noble name , Be sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness ...
... fame , And justly bear a critic's noble name , Be sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness ...
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... fame ( our second life ) is lost , And bare threescore is all even that can boast ; Our sons their fathers ' failing language see , And such as Chaucer is , shall Dryden be . So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of ...
... fame ( our second life ) is lost , And bare threescore is all even that can boast ; Our sons their fathers ' failing language see , And such as Chaucer is , shall Dryden be . So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of ...
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Achilles Agamemnon Ajax Antilochus arms Asius Atrides behold beneath blest blood bold brave breast breath chariot charms chief coursers cries crown'd dart dead death Diomed divine dreadful Dulness Dunciad earth eyes fair falchion fall fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames flies fool fury glory goddess gods grace Grecian Greece Greeks hand head hear heart heaven Hector hero Homer honour Idomeneus Iliad Ilion immortal javelin Jove king live lord Lycian Menelaus mighty mind monarch mortal muse night numbers nymph o'er Pallas passion Patroclus Peleus Phoebus plain poem poet praise Priam pride prince proud queen race rage rise round sacred shade shine shore sire skies slain soul spear spoke steeds stood Swift tears thee Thetis thine thou thunder toils trembling Trojan Troy Tydeus Ulysses verse Virgil virtue walls warrior wound wretched youth
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Page 79 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Page 85 - Father of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood: Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good. And that myself am blind...
Page 101 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite, Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar Toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or...
Page 85 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 20 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shoar, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 77 - With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err...
Page 10 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes. Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er, The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a plough-share end.
Page 28 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head.
Page 19 - For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content.
Page 20 - whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...