The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott...R. Cadell, 1848 |
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Absalom and Achitophel admired admitted Æneid afterwards Albion and Albanius ancient appears audience Aureng-Zebe Bayes beautiful Ben Jonson Catholic censure character Charles church comedy comic court Cowley criticism Davenant death dedication drama Duke of Guise Earl English epistle Essay excellence expression fame favour fortune genius Gilbert Pickering heroic plays Hind honour imitated John Dryden Johnson king labour Lady language learned literary lived Lord Malone Marriage a-la-Mode merit metaphysical metaphysical poets Monmouth Mulgrave muse nature never noble occasion opinion Panther party passages passion patron perhaps person piece plot poem poet laureat poet's poetical poetry political Pope praise preface probably prologue prose published racter reader reign religion reputation rhyme ridicule Rochester royal satire says scene seems Settle Shadwell Shakspeare Sir Robert Howard spirit stage style talents taste theatre thought tion Tory tragedy translation verse versification Virgil Whig write written wrote
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Stran 273 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Stran 217 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease...
Stran 23 - Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university ; Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age.
Stran 210 - And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state; To compass this the triple bond he broke, The pillars of the public safety shook, And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke; Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name.
Stran 415 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Stran 210 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes : How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will: Where crowds can wink ; and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
Stran 3 - Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule...
Stran 146 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Stran 270 - But, gracious God, how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide! Thy throne is darkness in the abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. O teach me to believe thee thus conceal'd, And search no farther than thyself reveal'd; But her alone for my director take, Whom thou hast promised never to forsake!
Stran 416 - 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.