The Modern Dunciad: Virgil in London and Other PoemsPickering, 1835 - 342 էջ |
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... court that noisy strumpet , Common Fame . Yes , I can bear that envy , hate , and spite , And cold contempt attend on all I write ; That Cottle's idiot , Thurlow's splay - foot line , And Barrett's doggerel be preferr'd to mine ; No ...
... court that noisy strumpet , Common Fame . Yes , I can bear that envy , hate , and spite , And cold contempt attend on all I write ; That Cottle's idiot , Thurlow's splay - foot line , And Barrett's doggerel be preferr'd to mine ; No ...
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... courts it at the bar , Th ' intrepid seaman wins it at his post , The man of virtue- P. When he shuns it most ! - F. The anxious poet claims it as his due , And ( pr'ythee speak with candour ) so do you . P. Thus candid , I reply - if ...
... courts it at the bar , Th ' intrepid seaman wins it at his post , The man of virtue- P. When he shuns it most ! - F. The anxious poet claims it as his due , And ( pr'ythee speak with candour ) so do you . P. Thus candid , I reply - if ...
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... court of King James the First , are songs full of grace , liveliness , and imagination . Many of his minor pieces are exceedingly beautiful . His verses on Shakespeare have the merit of brevity and truth . His epitaph on one of the ...
... court of King James the First , are songs full of grace , liveliness , and imagination . Many of his minor pieces are exceedingly beautiful . His verses on Shakespeare have the merit of brevity and truth . His epitaph on one of the ...
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... court , where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers . Can I then Part with such constant pleasures ? No ! be it your care To augment a heap of wealth ; it shall be mine To increase in knowledge . " + It has been shrewdly ...
... court , where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers . Can I then Part with such constant pleasures ? No ! be it your care To augment a heap of wealth ; it shall be mine To increase in knowledge . " + It has been shrewdly ...
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... court shall prove your friends ; + An attorney's clerk and a maker of verses . A droll story is told of Mr. Feist : he employed a printer to print his poems , ( the feast of reason ! ) obtained a dozen copies for himself , but entirely ...
... court shall prove your friends ; + An attorney's clerk and a maker of verses . A droll story is told of Mr. Feist : he employed a printer to print his poems , ( the feast of reason ! ) obtained a dozen copies for himself , but entirely ...
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Էջ 117 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Էջ 62 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives...
Էջ 98 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Էջ 89 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Էջ 119 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of Joy; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Էջ 62 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose : And on old Hyems' chin and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Էջ 131 - Fortunate senex, ergo tua rura manebunt! et tibi magna satis, quamvis lapis omnia nudus limosoque palus obducat pascua iunco.
Էջ 82 - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Էջ 62 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Էջ 91 - That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.