A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Montague. HalifaxJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1793 |
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... Lord Haflings , which abounds in fuch conceits , as the example of Cowley still kept in reputation . In 1650 , he was elected to one of the Westminster scholarships at Cambridge , and went off to Trinity College . The fame year , he ...
... Lord Haflings , which abounds in fuch conceits , as the example of Cowley still kept in reputation . In 1650 , he was elected to one of the Westminster scholarships at Cambridge , and went off to Trinity College . The fame year , he ...
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... Lord Dorfet . In this prefatory difcourfe , he mentions the design he had once formed to write an Epic Poem on the actions either of Arthur , or the Black Prince , which it is much to be regretted , was not executed for want of a public ...
... Lord Dorfet . In this prefatory difcourfe , he mentions the design he had once formed to write an Epic Poem on the actions either of Arthur , or the Black Prince , which it is much to be regretted , was not executed for want of a public ...
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... Lord Jeffries and his " rakish companions ; " as related at great length in Wilson's " Life of Congreve . " Had fuch a circumftance happened , he hardly would have omitted it , In the Regifter of the College of Physicians , is the ...
... Lord Jeffries and his " rakish companions ; " as related at great length in Wilson's " Life of Congreve . " Had fuch a circumftance happened , he hardly would have omitted it , In the Regifter of the College of Physicians , is the ...
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ORIGINAL POEM S. UPON THE DEATH OF LORD HASTINGS . HEROIC STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL . WRITTEN. Most noble Haftings immaturely die , The honour of his ancient family , Beauty and learning thus together meet , To bring a ...
ORIGINAL POEM S. UPON THE DEATH OF LORD HASTINGS . HEROIC STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL . WRITTEN. Most noble Haftings immaturely die , The honour of his ancient family , Beauty and learning thus together meet , To bring a ...
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TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR HYDE , PRESENTED ON NEW - YEAR'S DAY , 1662 . SATIRE ON THE DUTCH . WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1662. MY LORD , WEILE flattering crouds officiously appear To give themselves , not you , an happy year ; And by the greatness ...
TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR HYDE , PRESENTED ON NEW - YEAR'S DAY , 1662 . SATIRE ON THE DUTCH . WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1662. MY LORD , WEILE flattering crouds officiously appear To give themselves , not you , an happy year ; And by the greatness ...
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Page 73 - Babel, which if it were possible, as it is not, to reach heaven, would come to nothing by the confusion of the workmen. For every man is building a several...
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Page 45 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Bless'd madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy!
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Page 415 - Then old Age, and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to Death, and make him understand, After a search so painful, and so long, That all his Life he has been in the wrong.
Page 42 - Some had in courts been great, and thrown from thence , Like fiends, were harden'd in impenitence...
Page 54 - Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.