Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784Thomas Campbell J. Murray, 1819 |
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... spite , Fawns in the day , and butchers in the night ; With that malignant envy , which turns pale , And sickens , even if a friend prevail , 1 Which merit and success pursues with hate , And damns 10 CHARLES CHURCHILD .
... spite , Fawns in the day , and butchers in the night ; With that malignant envy , which turns pale , And sickens , even if a friend prevail , 1 Which merit and success pursues with hate , And damns 10 CHARLES CHURCHILD .
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... pale cheeks the horrid manly red . Much did it talk , in its own pretty phrase , Of genius and of taste , of play'rs and plays ; Much too of writings , which itself had wrote , Of special merit , though of little note ; For fate , in a ...
... pale cheeks the horrid manly red . Much did it talk , in its own pretty phrase , Of genius and of taste , of play'rs and plays ; Much too of writings , which itself had wrote , Of special merit , though of little note ; For fate , in a ...
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... how silence reign'd throughout , And deep attention hush'd the rabble rout ! How ev'ry claimant , tortur'd with desire , Was pale as ashes , or as red as fire : VOL . V. But , loose to fame , the Muse more simply CHARLES CHURCHILL . 17.
... how silence reign'd throughout , And deep attention hush'd the rabble rout ! How ev'ry claimant , tortur'd with desire , Was pale as ashes , or as red as fire : VOL . V. But , loose to fame , the Muse more simply CHARLES CHURCHILL . 17.
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... Pale Famine rear'd the head : her eager eyes , Where hunger ev'n to madness seem'd to rise , Speaking aloud her throes and pangs of heart , Strain'd to get loose , and from their orbs to start ; Her hollow cheeks were each a deep - sunk ...
... Pale Famine rear'd the head : her eager eyes , Where hunger ev'n to madness seem'd to rise , Speaking aloud her throes and pangs of heart , Strain'd to get loose , and from their orbs to start ; Her hollow cheeks were each a deep - sunk ...
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... pale , and left her cheek ; She died before her time . " Awake ! " she cried , " thy true love calls , Come from her midnight - grave ; Now let thy pity hear the maid , Thy love refus'd to save . " This is the dumb and dreary hour ...
... pale , and left her cheek ; She died before her time . " Awake ! " she cried , " thy true love calls , Come from her midnight - grave ; Now let thy pity hear the maid , Thy love refus'd to save . " This is the dumb and dreary hour ...
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Էջ 284 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Էջ 285 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Էջ 290 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Էջ 291 - That call'd them from their native walks away ; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, Hung round the bowers, and fondly...
Էջ 286 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Էջ 191 - Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, That hush'd the stormy main : Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed : Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloudtopt head. On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smear'd with gore, and ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by.
Էջ 440 - Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.
Էջ 288 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Էջ 47 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Էջ 287 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale...