The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the AuthorB. Johnson, J. Johnson and R. Johnson, 1805 - 132 sivua |
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... vain : at last she was obliged to go off the stage alive . This passage was afterwards struck out , and she was carried off to be put to death behind the scenes , no doubt at the suggestion of Mr. Garrick , to which if the author had ...
... vain : at last she was obliged to go off the stage alive . This passage was afterwards struck out , and she was carried off to be put to death behind the scenes , no doubt at the suggestion of Mr. Garrick , to which if the author had ...
Sivu 30
... vain for the traces in Chesterfield , he found realized in Thrale . In the course of this year he was complimented by the University of Dublin with the degree of Doctor of Laws , as the diploma expresses it , ob egregium scrip- torum ...
... vain for the traces in Chesterfield , he found realized in Thrale . In the course of this year he was complimented by the University of Dublin with the degree of Doctor of Laws , as the diploma expresses it , ob egregium scrip- torum ...
Sivu 48
... vain wish , and calms the troubled breast ; O'er the dark mind a light celestial throws , And soothes the angry passions to repose , As oil effus'd illumes and smooths the deep , When round the bark the swelling surges sweep . As a ...
... vain wish , and calms the troubled breast ; O'er the dark mind a light celestial throws , And soothes the angry passions to repose , As oil effus'd illumes and smooths the deep , When round the bark the swelling surges sweep . As a ...
Sivu 54
... vain ; Since hope but soothes to double my distress , And ev'ry moment leaves my little less ; While yet my steady steps no staff sustains , And life , still vigʼrous , revels in my veins ; Grant me , kind heaven , to find some happier ...
... vain ; Since hope but soothes to double my distress , And ev'ry moment leaves my little less ; While yet my steady steps no staff sustains , And life , still vigʼrous , revels in my veins ; Grant me , kind heaven , to find some happier ...
Sivu 56
... vain to laugh at Clodio's jest . Others , with softer smiles , and subtler art , Can sap the principles , or taint the heart ; With more address a lover's note convey , Or bribe a virgin's innocence away . Well may they rise , while I ...
... vain to laugh at Clodio's jest . Others , with softer smiles , and subtler art , Can sap the principles , or taint the heart ; With more address a lover's note convey , Or bribe a virgin's innocence away . Well may they rise , while I ...
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ANTISTROPHE bard beauty Behold bless bosom breast breathe charms Circassia Collins death delight e'en ECLOGUE English language ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear fire fix'd flowers foes Garrick genius Gentleman's Magazine gold golden reign grace grief grove happy hear heart heaven honour hope hour Johnson Juvenal kings language light literary live Lord Lord Chesterfield lov'd lover lyre maid maze of fate merit Metastasio mind mirth moral mournful Murphy muse myrtle nature nature's night numbers Nymph o'er passions peaceful Pity plain pleasure poem poet poetical pow'r praise pride rage Rambler Rasselas reign Rio verde rise Samuel Johnson SATIRE OF JUVENAL scarce scenes scorn shade shews shine sighs sing Sir John Hawkins skies smile soft sooth soul spreads Spring Stella sweet thee thine thou thought Thrale toil truth vale verse virtue virtue's voice wealth wild wise writings youth
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Sivu 22 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Sivu 21 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Sivu 67 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still, through all the song : And, where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Sivu 19 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring ' Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Sivu 69 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Sivu 58 - With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dogdays, in December sweat. How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly Virtue hope to fix a friend...
Sivu 58 - If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear. Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Sivu 80 - Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Sivu 99 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Sivu 68 - Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For why did Wolsey near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise th