The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 14, Page 2H. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... Muse has peopled Caledon With Panthers , Bears , and Wolves , and beafts unknown , As if we were not stock'd with monfters of our own . Let Æfop anfwer , who has fet to view Such kinds as Greece and Phrygia never knew ; And mother ...
... Muse has peopled Caledon With Panthers , Bears , and Wolves , and beafts unknown , As if we were not stock'd with monfters of our own . Let Æfop anfwer , who has fet to view Such kinds as Greece and Phrygia never knew ; And mother ...
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... Muse ; Madness ungovernable , uninfpir'd , Swift to foretel whatever the defir'd . Was it for me the dark abyfs to tread , And read the book which angels cannot read ? How was I punifh'd when the fudden blast , The face of heaven , and ...
... Muse ; Madness ungovernable , uninfpir'd , Swift to foretel whatever the defir'd . Was it for me the dark abyfs to tread , And read the book which angels cannot read ? How was I punifh'd when the fudden blast , The face of heaven , and ...
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... Muse from Fletcher scenes purloin , As thou whole Etherege doft transfufe to thine ? But fo transfus'd , as oil and waters flow , His always floats above , thine finks below . This is thy province , this thy wondrous way , New humours ...
... Muse from Fletcher scenes purloin , As thou whole Etherege doft transfufe to thine ? But fo transfus'd , as oil and waters flow , His always floats above , thine finks below . This is thy province , this thy wondrous way , New humours ...
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... Muse : no metaphor fwell'd high With dangerous boldness lifts her to the sky : Thofe mounting fancies , when they fall again , Shew fand and dirt at bottom do remain . So firm a ftrength , and yet withal fo fweet , Did never but in ...
... Muse : no metaphor fwell'd high With dangerous boldness lifts her to the sky : Thofe mounting fancies , when they fall again , Shew fand and dirt at bottom do remain . So firm a ftrength , and yet withal fo fweet , Did never but in ...
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... Muse . Or is it fortune's work , that in your The curious net that is for fancies fpread , Lets through its meshes every meaner thought , While rich ideas there are only caught ? Sure that's not all ; this is a piece too fair To be the ...
... Muse . Or is it fortune's work , that in your The curious net that is for fancies fpread , Lets through its meshes every meaner thought , While rich ideas there are only caught ? Sure that's not all ; this is a piece too fair To be the ...
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Page 200 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Page 199 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 213 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy! Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Page 213 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 210 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Page 210 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 13 - To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith, but bungling bigotry. Both knave and fool the merchant we may call, To pay great sums, and to compound the small ; For -who would break with Heaven, and would not break for all?
Page 159 - FAREWELL, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine.
Page 214 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Page 110 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.