Poems: By Michael Wodhull, EsqW. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772 - 232 pages |
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Page 210 - To aft a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reverfion in the fky For thofe who greatly think, or bravely die...
Page 83 - No happy mean the fons of Albion know, Their wavering tempers ever ebb and flow, Rank contraries, in nothing they agree; Untaught to ferve, unable to be free.
Page 181 - No, gentle Oufe! for oft I lov'd to ftray Where thy fmooth Current winds its fedgy Way : Full to my View befide thy confcious Stream Coy Science thence difclos'd her kindling Beam ; In wild Career fpontaneous Numbers flow'd, As with a Heat, unfelt before, I glow'd. If...
Page 180 - Aufpices iny earlier Age Imbib'd the Diftates of the good and Sage ? No, gentle Oufe! for oft I lov'd to ftray Where thy fmooth Current winds its fedgy Way : Full to my View befide thy confcious Stream Coy Science thence difclos'd her kindling Beam ; In wild Career fpontaneous Numbers flow'd, As with a Heat...
Page 190 - Th' illuftrious Patron, and the generous Friend, " To Wealth, to Title duteous Homage pay, " And make the Great the Subjeft of thy Lay ? " Applaufe from ecchoing Multitudes to gain, " Or can'ft thou ?" Almoft burftjng with Difdain, " Indeed I cannot," I enrag'd reply; " Let others handle Themes like thefe— not I.
Page 183 - On Airs and Operas with a Scribler's Pride ; " And dare to mix with Coxcombs not a few '' Who talk of Matters which they never knew ? Becaufe forfooth I flaunt not in Brocade To the Ridotto, Court, or Mafquerade ? But hear umnov'd imperious Fafhion's Call, And bring no Surfeit from the midnight Ball, Nor the flow, tedious, weighty Hours to kill, AH Day read Hoyle, all Night attend Quadrille; They treat my Notions as th' abfurd Pretence Of one quite loft to Tafte and common Senfe.
Page 183 - Whether we vifit, drefs, or entertain, Cuftom defpotic reigns ; — and let her reign. But fhall the Mufes learn the gait, the dance, With all the tawdry nothingnefs, of France; Muft they aflume fome new fantaftic fhape, 105 And change their habit with each modifh ape?
Page 183 - To fpeak, praife, cenfure, nay to write as well ? Whether we vifit, drefs, or entertain, Cuftom defpotic reigns; — and let her reign. But fhall the Mufes learn the Gait, the Dance, With all the tawdry Nothingnefs of France? Muft they aflume fome new fantaftic Shape, And change their Habit with each modifh Ape ? Shall He in literary Credit mine Whofe loofe Adventures fivell the Novel Line ? And fhall the Man of Judgment's Tongue be mute, Unlefs inur'd to quibble, and difpvrte?
Page 79 - Her Pentheus' mangled limbs the mother bore ;) Proclaims the fall of Liberty : — ye...
Page 192 - I will noc yet implicitly abide By what the People happen to decide. Nor can I for my Life attentive fit To praife each Species of new-fangled Wit ; Or dwell with Tranfport on the hobbling Rhimes, The claffic Cant of thefe poetic Times. Far be the odious Antiquary's Frown Who aims to pull all living Merit down, Who churlifhly belies the prefent Days, When he bewails with an invidious Praife, (To give Detraction's Venom freer Scope) All Genius buried in the Grave of Pope. * Anxr/rcs SIM" oiiyactti)...