The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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Sivu xviii
... verses are here first printed from the manufcript copies of his principal poems of later date ; that many new notes of the author's are here added to his poems ; and , lastly , that fe- veral pieces , both in profe and verse , make now ...
... verses are here first printed from the manufcript copies of his principal poems of later date ; that many new notes of the author's are here added to his poems ; and , lastly , that fe- veral pieces , both in profe and verse , make now ...
Sivu 1
... verse are found , Art strengthening nature , fenfe improv'd by found . Unlike those wits , whofe numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to ...
... verse are found , Art strengthening nature , fenfe improv'd by found . Unlike those wits , whofe numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to ...
Sivu 2
... verse of every artful hand Before your numbers eminently stand ; In you no vanity could therce be fhewn , Uniefs , fince short in beauty of your own , Some envious fcribbler might in spite declare , That for comparison you plac'd them ...
... verse of every artful hand Before your numbers eminently stand ; In you no vanity could therce be fhewn , Uniefs , fince short in beauty of your own , Some envious fcribbler might in spite declare , That for comparison you plac'd them ...
Sivu 3
... verse ! Now light as air th ' enlivening numbers move , Soft as the downy plumes of fabled love , Gay as the freaks that ftain the gaudy bow , Smooth as Meander's crystal mirrors flow . But , when Achilles , panting for the war , Joins ...
... verse ! Now light as air th ' enlivening numbers move , Soft as the downy plumes of fabled love , Gay as the freaks that ftain the gaudy bow , Smooth as Meander's crystal mirrors flow . But , when Achilles , panting for the war , Joins ...
Sivu 5
... verse unrival'd reign , And the full honours of thy youth maintain ; Soothe , with thy wonted eafe and power divine , Our fouls , and our degenerate taftes refine ; In judgment o'er our favourite follies fit , And foíten Wisdom's harfh ...
... verse unrival'd reign , And the full honours of thy youth maintain ; Soothe , with thy wonted eafe and power divine , Our fouls , and our degenerate taftes refine ; In judgment o'er our favourite follies fit , And foíten Wisdom's harfh ...
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