Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1781 |
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Stran 153
... Muse . Far from intrigue and scandal be your verse , But praise of virgin modefty rehearse , Maufolus by his confort deify'd , IC20 IC25 How for Admetus bleft Alceftis dy'd . Since Overbury's Wife no poets seem T'have chofe a wifer or a ...
... Muse . Far from intrigue and scandal be your verse , But praise of virgin modefty rehearse , Maufolus by his confort deify'd , IC20 IC25 How for Admetus bleft Alceftis dy'd . Since Overbury's Wife no poets seem T'have chofe a wifer or a ...
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... Muse ! forbear the rest , And veil that grief which cannot be exprest . 109 ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE . FIRST PRINTED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1704 . As poets fay , one Orpheus went To hell upon an odd intent . Firft tell the story , then let ' s ...
... Muse ! forbear the rest , And veil that grief which cannot be exprest . 109 ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE . FIRST PRINTED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1704 . As poets fay , one Orpheus went To hell upon an odd intent . Firft tell the story , then let ' s ...
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... Muse . Oh ! who can view without a tear Great Pindar's Mufe and D'Urfey near ? 175 180 Whofe foaring wit ne'er higher ficw Than to endité for Barthol'mew , Setting for fots at country fairs Dull bawdy fongs to Purcell's airs ; But here ...
... Muse . Oh ! who can view without a tear Great Pindar's Mufe and D'Urfey near ? 175 180 Whofe foaring wit ne'er higher ficw Than to endité for Barthol'mew , Setting for fots at country fairs Dull bawdy fongs to Purcell's airs ; But here ...
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... Muse and thee exalted fung : Let that at leaft engage thy fears , And drop thy pen to fave thy ears . Oh , of what strange and pow'rful ufe Are pill'ries to inspire a Muse ! Hark , in what hymns and grateful lays The pendent bard ...
... Muse and thee exalted fung : Let that at leaft engage thy fears , And drop thy pen to fave thy ears . Oh , of what strange and pow'rful ufe Are pill'ries to inspire a Muse ! Hark , in what hymns and grateful lays The pendent bard ...
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... Muse 280 285 } } 290 In fcoundrel fatire durft abuse , Where oft ' the starving villain fed , 295 Cring'd for a groat , and fawn'd for bread ) Atoning thus for each offence Committed against thee and fenfe , Till all the ftuff the idiot ...
... Muse 280 285 } } 290 In fcoundrel fatire durft abuse , Where oft ' the starving villain fed , 295 Cring'd for a groat , and fawn'd for bread ) Atoning thus for each offence Committed against thee and fenfe , Till all the ftuff the idiot ...
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Stran 143 - Thoufands of happy hours you pafs'd with me ; " No mention made of old Penelope. " On adamant our wrongs we all engrave, " But write our benefits upon the wave. " Why then be gone, the feas uncertain truft ; " As I found you, fo may you find them juft. " Dying Calypfo muft be left behind, " And all your vows be wafted with the wind !" Fond are the hopes he fhould be conftant now, Who to his tendereft part had broke his vow.
Stran 136 - To make your wife and mine a muff.) Thus he frames wings, and nothing lacks To fix the whole, but melted wax : That was the work of the young boy, Pleas'd at the fancy of the toy; Not guessing, ere he was much older, He should have one upon each shoulder.
Stran 81 - L were a Picture drawn With Cynthia's Face, but with a Neck like Brawn; With Wings of Turkey, and with Feet of Calf, Tho' drawn by Kneller, it would make you laugh!
Stran 44 - Cincinnatus, who went from the plough to the command of the Roman army ; and, having brought home victory, retired to his cottage ; for, when the Samnite...
Stran 8 - Which faid, he foon outftript the wind, Whilft puffing Boreas lagg'd behind ; And to Urganda's cave he came, A lady of prodigious fame, Whofe hollow eyes and hopper breech...
Stran 112 - THE BEGGAR WOMAN. A GENTLEMAN in hunting rode aftray, •**• More out of choice, than that he loft his way, He let his company the Hare purfue, For he himfelf had other game in view. A Beggar by her trade ; yet not fo mean, But that her cheeks were frefh, and linen clean. J' Miftrefs," quoth he, " and what if we two fhou'd * Retire a little way into the wood...
Stran 43 - I hope it will not be taken ill by the wits, that 1 call my cooks by the title of ingenious; for I cannot imagine why cooks may not be as well read as any other persons.
Stran 84 - The fate of things lies always in the dark : What cavalier would know St. James's Park '? For locket stands «;i icrc gardens once did spring ; And wild-ducks quack where grasshoppers did sing ; A princely palace on that space does rise, Where Sedley's noble muse found mulberries'.
Stran 159 - And have you by a rival croft, Only in hopes you may n't be loft. Sometimes they fay that you are faulty, And that they know where...
Stran 54 - The Art of Cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry, with some Letters to Dr. Lister...