The British Satirist: Comprising the Best Satires of the Most Celebrated Poets, from Pope to Byron. Accompanied by Original Critical Notices of the AuthorsC. P. Fessenden, 1831 - 388 strani |
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Stran vii
... reader , can hardly be said to supply so obvious a want , but a cursory examina- tion of the pieces it contains will be sufficient to prove , that so far as it goes , it is exceedingly complete . The publishers , for reasons which the ...
... reader , can hardly be said to supply so obvious a want , but a cursory examina- tion of the pieces it contains will be sufficient to prove , that so far as it goes , it is exceedingly complete . The publishers , for reasons which the ...
Stran viii
... reader . For this reason , the publishers have thought it necessary to subjoin the following short explanatory notices of the various pieces in the volume . ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS . This caustic but beautiful poem , like ...
... reader . For this reason , the publishers have thought it necessary to subjoin the following short explanatory notices of the various pieces in the volume . ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS . This caustic but beautiful poem , like ...
Stran xii
... reader will find that there is not much personality , and very little of the customary vi- rulence of satirical writing , the object of the author being rather to convince by reasoning , than to rouse by invective . There is a fine ...
... reader will find that there is not much personality , and very little of the customary vi- rulence of satirical writing , the object of the author being rather to convince by reasoning , than to rouse by invective . There is a fine ...
Stran xiii
... reader , be just as fresh and piquant at the distance of a century , as it was at the very period in which it first dropped from the pen of its author . BOZZY AND PIOZZI . This mock - pastoral is generally allowed to be wrought up in ...
... reader , be just as fresh and piquant at the distance of a century , as it was at the very period in which it first dropped from the pen of its author . BOZZY AND PIOZZI . This mock - pastoral is generally allowed to be wrought up in ...
Stran xiv
... reader will readily perceive how successfully the poet has executed this plan , and in how ludicrous a light the contending Biographers are exhibited . HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS , KNIGHT . As an official personage , Sir ...
... reader will readily perceive how successfully the poet has executed this plan , and in how ludicrous a light the contending Biographers are exhibited . HEROIC EPISTLE TO SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS , KNIGHT . As an official personage , Sir ...
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Stran 77 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Stran 52 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain...
Stran 57 - Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries attempt the mercies of the skies? Inquirer, cease; petitions yet remain Which Heaven may hear, nor deem Religion vain.
Stran 133 - How, with less reading than makes felons scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small thanks to France, and none to Rome or Greece, A...
Stran xxv - Unhappy White ! while life was in its spring,* And thy young muse just waved her joyous wing, The spoiler came ; and all thy promise fair Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, When Science...
Stran 50 - Now drops at once the pride of awful state, The golden canopy, the glitt'ring plate,. The regal palace, the luxurious board, The liv'ried army, and the menial lord.
Stran 167 - Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus
Stran xxi - Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose...
Stran 77 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit : Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir — To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Stran 53 - Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait; While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.