 | Sir John Hawkins - 1787 - 634 sivua
...praife and blame be found, ' At laft, a fleeting gleam, or empty found. ' Yet then fhall calm reflection blefs the night, ' When liberal pity dignified delight...England, Dr. William Dodd, already mentioned in the courfo of this account, and who had affifted in the education of the prefent earl of Cheftcrfield,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 sivua
...then fhall calm refle&ion blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight; When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. SPRING, AN ODE. N Winter now, by Spring reprefs'd, Forbears the long continued ftrife ; And Nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 sivua
...then fhall calm reflection blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. SPRING, AN ODE. QTERN Winter now, by Spring reprefs'd, Forbears the long continued -ftrife j And Nature,... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1787 - 632 sivua
...delight ; * When pleafure fired her torch at virtue's flame, ' And mirth was bounty with an humbjer name.' In the year 1777, he was induced, by a cafe of % very extraordinary nature, to the exercife of that in-, difcriminate humanity, which, in him, was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1789 - 248 sivua
...then fhall calm refleftion blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. MESSI A. MESSI A. TOLLITE concentum, Styrruea; tollite nymphae ! Nil mortale loquor, cesium mihi carminis... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 478 sivua
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 | English poets - 1790 - 370 sivua
...then fhall calm reflection blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. D 3 SPRING, SPRING, AN ODE. TERN Winter now, by Spring reprefs'd, Forbears the long continued ftrife... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 sivua
...fhall calm reflection blefs the night, " When liberal pity dignified delight; " When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, ** And mirth was bounty with an humbler name." A circumftance which could not fail to be very pleafing to Johnfon, occurred this year. The Tragedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 sivua
...then fhall calm reflexion blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When Pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. SPRING, , , AN ODE. STERN Winter now, by Spring reprefs'd, Forbears the long- continued ftrife; And... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 sivua
...Univerfity of Oxford ; an honour with which, though he did not boail of it, he was highly gratitied. In 1777 he was induced, by a cafe of a very extraordinary nature, to exercrfe that humanity which in him was obedient to every call. Dr William Dodd, a clergyman, under... | |
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... too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. 
