The Poems, of the Late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations; ...Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Company, London, 1791 |
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... ev'ry fide ; The cock as ufual crow'd up Tray , Who nightly with his master lay VOL . II . ] B The The faithful fpaniel gave the word , TRELOOBY at the FABLE S. 17.
... ev'ry fide ; The cock as ufual crow'd up Tray , Who nightly with his master lay VOL . II . ] B The The faithful fpaniel gave the word , TRELOOBY at the FABLE S. 17.
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... ev'ry place of call , " The chandler's fhop , or cobler's stall , " Or ale - house , where ( for petty tales , " Gin , beer , and ale are conftant vails ) " Each word at table that was spoke , " Wou'd foon become the public joke , " And ...
... ev'ry place of call , " The chandler's fhop , or cobler's stall , " Or ale - house , where ( for petty tales , " Gin , beer , and ale are conftant vails ) " Each word at table that was spoke , " Wou'd foon become the public joke , " And ...
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... ev'ry trite pedantic fool , On her to place the palm agree , ' Tis Nancy's , who was born for me .. V. Tell fpotlefs Dian , tho ' fhe range , The regent of the up - land grange , In chastity the yields to thee , O , Nancy , who wast ...
... ev'ry trite pedantic fool , On her to place the palm agree , ' Tis Nancy's , who was born for me .. V. Tell fpotlefs Dian , tho ' fhe range , The regent of the up - land grange , In chastity the yields to thee , O , Nancy , who wast ...
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... ev'ry joy has wing'd its flight , Except that penfive dear delight That takes it's rife from pain . RECITATIVE . She faid : A youth approach'd of manly grace ,. A fon of Mars , and of th ' Hibernian race : - In flow'ry rhetorick he no ...
... ev'ry joy has wing'd its flight , Except that penfive dear delight That takes it's rife from pain . RECITATIVE . She faid : A youth approach'd of manly grace ,. A fon of Mars , and of th ' Hibernian race : - In flow'ry rhetorick he no ...
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... ry honour'd , as his life belov'd : That heart o'er which no evil e'er had pow'r ; That difpofition ficknefs could ... Ev'n nature , blessed nature is our foe . When we should praise , we sympathetic groan , For fad mortality is all our ...
... ry honour'd , as his life belov'd : That heart o'er which no evil e'er had pow'r ; That difpofition ficknefs could ... Ev'n nature , blessed nature is our foe . When we should praise , we sympathetic groan , For fad mortality is all our ...
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Page 114 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Page 208 - Neglect the rules each verbal Critic lays, For not to know some trifles, is a praise. Most Critics, fond of some subservient art, Still make the Whole depend upon a Part : They talk of principles, but notions prize, And all to one lov'd Folly sacrifice.
Page 204 - Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more...
Page 118 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Page 210 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine. And glittering thoughts struck out at every line; Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
Page 120 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 246 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Page 214 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line ; While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Page 202 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Page 202 - Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth...