A Collection of Poems: Occasionally Writ on Several SubjectsJohn White, 1731 - 176 sivua |
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Sivu vi
... most facred Truths are made the frequent Subjects of Banter and Ridicule ; and if Religion and Vertue cannot keep Countenance , where fhall needy Poetry appear ? However , there is one Circumftance which gives me no little Confolation ...
... most facred Truths are made the frequent Subjects of Banter and Ridicule ; and if Religion and Vertue cannot keep Countenance , where fhall needy Poetry appear ? However , there is one Circumftance which gives me no little Confolation ...
Sivu vii
... most of them when I was little able to correct or judge of what I writ ; and they now come abroad with fmall Emen- dations , for as to retrench the Faults fufficiently , would be little less than making many of them a - new , fo I have ...
... most of them when I was little able to correct or judge of what I writ ; and they now come abroad with fmall Emen- dations , for as to retrench the Faults fufficiently , would be little less than making many of them a - new , fo I have ...
Sivu xi
... most lofty Species of Poetry , yet certainly no kind of Writing can be more na- tural and eafy ; for it has Na- ture in it's utmost Beauty and Perfection for it's Subject ; the Perfons which it introdu- ces ought to come in with ...
... most lofty Species of Poetry , yet certainly no kind of Writing can be more na- tural and eafy ; for it has Na- ture in it's utmost Beauty and Perfection for it's Subject ; the Perfons which it introdu- ces ought to come in with ...
Sivu xiii
... most flovenly dress of one . I fee no Abfurdity in a Shepherd's making Phi- lofophical Difquifitions into Nature , or expatiat- ing amongst the Stars and celeftial Worlds , pro- vided he proceed in a Manner that becomes his Character ...
... most flovenly dress of one . I fee no Abfurdity in a Shepherd's making Phi- lofophical Difquifitions into Nature , or expatiat- ing amongst the Stars and celeftial Worlds , pro- vided he proceed in a Manner that becomes his Character ...
Sivu 51
... most beautiful Woman . The last won his Voice ; and foon after being known and own'd for King PRIAM'S Son , he fails into Greece , falls in Love with HELEN , the Wife of King MENELAUS , and carries her to Troy . OENONE hearing this ...
... most beautiful Woman . The last won his Voice ; and foon after being known and own'd for King PRIAM'S Son , he fails into Greece , falls in Love with HELEN , the Wife of King MENELAUS , and carries her to Troy . OENONE hearing this ...
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Abfence arife Beauties Bleffings bleft Blifs Bloom blooming Groves Bofom Breaſt bright caft Charms DAMON Daphnis dear Defire Delight diff'rent Ev'n ev'ry Eyes facred fafe Fame feems felf fhall fhining fhould figh'd fince fing Fire firſt Flame flow flow'ry fmile foft fome foon ftill fuch fweet fwell gen'rous Genius Glories glow Groves happy Heart Heav'n heav'nly Hills John Joys juſt lafting laſt lefs lov'd Love Mankind melting Mind moſt Mount Ida mourn Mufe Muſe muſt ne'er Numbers Nymph o'er OENONE OVID Paffion Paftoral Pain PARIS Plain pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r Praife Praiſe PRIAM purſue Rapture raviſh'd rife Robert Rofe Scenes Seafon Senfe Shades ſhall ſhe Shepherd ſhine Silvia's Skie Skies Song Soul ſtay ſtill Streams STREPHON Swain tender thee thefe theſe Things feel thofe Thomas thoſe thou Thought thouſand thro Verfe Verſe VIRG whofe Whoſe William Youth
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Sivu viii - ... wing, (Her guide now lost) no more attempts to rise, But in low numbers short excursions tries: Content, if hence, th...
Sivu 129 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Sivu vi - Ten cenfure wrong, for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himfelf alone expofe, Now one in verfe makes many more in profe. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go juft alike, yet each believes his own.
Sivu 154 - Flocks, fecms to be the firft Employment of Mankind, the moft antient Sort of Poetry, was probably Paftoral : 'Tis natural to imagine, that the Leifure of thofe antient Shepherds requiring fome Diverfion, none was fo proper to that folitary Life, as finging, and that in their Songs, they took Occafion...
Sivu 101 - No doleful fighs in airy circles rove, But all be rapture, blifs, and joy and love ; Without a ruffle, ev'ry moment flow, More gentle than the fofteft breezes blow.
Sivu xv - Rofes in Hedges, King-cups on the green, Birds in the Woods, and Larks upon the Skies, Say, is't not Spring that makes you all rejoyce?
Sivu 33 - Swell'd to my Eyes, and melted out in Tears; " My trembling Limbs could fcarce my Weight fuftain, " And Life furpriz'd, ftood paufing with the Pain.
Sivu 30 - Place for Contemplation, or for Care, To lift the Soul, or pour out fad DeJpair ! And And here lay Cc///'», haplefs Swain!
Sivu vii - One moral, or a meer well-natur'd Deed Does all Defert in Sciences exceed. Moreover, I can ajjure all my Readers, 'who are not of my Acquaintance, that I am not extravagant...