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... Poet Laureat , Nov. 19 , 1739 309 + The Narrative of Dr. ROBERT NORRIS , concerning the strange and deplorable frenzy of Mr. JOHN Dennis , an Officer of the Custom - house . Written in 1713 . 317 + A full and true Account of a horrid and.
... Poet Laureat , Nov. 19 , 1739 309 + The Narrative of Dr. ROBERT NORRIS , concerning the strange and deplorable frenzy of Mr. JOHN Dennis , an Officer of the Custom - house . Written in 1713 . 317 + A full and true Account of a horrid and.
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... Poets , if they were carefully and candidly inspected , will be found really equal to any of Pope's Imitations , and are executed with a dignified familiarity and ease , in the very manner of Horace . After all that has been said of ...
... Poets , if they were carefully and candidly inspected , will be found really equal to any of Pope's Imitations , and are executed with a dignified familiarity and ease , in the very manner of Horace . After all that has been said of ...
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... poet . It seems to be growing a little fashion- able to decry his great merits as a poet . They who do this seem not sufficiently to have attended to his admirable Ode to Mr. Charles Montague , afterward Earl of Halifax ; his Ode to the ...
... poet . It seems to be growing a little fashion- able to decry his great merits as a poet . They who do this seem not sufficiently to have attended to his admirable Ode to Mr. Charles Montague , afterward Earl of Halifax ; his Ode to the ...
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... Poet Shin'd in Description , he might shew it ; Tell how the Moon - beam trembling falls , ( And tips with Silver all the walls ; Palladian walls , Venetian doors , Grotesco roofs , and Stucco floors : But let it ( in a word ) be said ...
... Poet Shin'd in Description , he might shew it ; Tell how the Moon - beam trembling falls , ( And tips with Silver all the walls ; Palladian walls , Venetian doors , Grotesco roofs , and Stucco floors : But let it ( in a word ) be said ...
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... Poets , Wits , Lord Fanny's , Lady Mary's , And all the court in tears , and half the town , Lament dear charming Oldfield , dead and gone ! Engaging Oldfield ! who , with grace and ease , Could join the arts , to ruin and to please ...
... Poets , Wits , Lord Fanny's , Lady Mary's , And all the court in tears , and half the town , Lament dear charming Oldfield , dead and gone ! Engaging Oldfield ! who , with grace and ease , Could join the arts , to ruin and to please ...
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Page 377 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 364 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Page 376 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Page 365 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Page 13 - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Page 370 - Hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen. He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like Thunder on the prostrate Ace. The Nymph exulting fills with Shouts the Sky, The Walls, the Woods, and long Canals reply.
Page 19 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,
Page 386 - He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Page 369 - What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to fate! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.
Page 12 - Hoc erat in votis : modus agri non ita magnus, hortus ubi et tecto vicinus iugis aquae fons et paulum silvae super his foret.